BENJAMIN F. SHAMBAUGH, A. M., PH. D. PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL SCIENCE IN THE VOLUME I PUBLISHED BY THE STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF IOWA IOWA CITY, IOWA 1903 PREFACE The publication of the Messages and Proclamations of the Governors of Iowa was authorized by an act of the Twentyninth General Assembly making an appropriation to the State Historical Society. Under the authority of that act the Board of Curators of the State Historical Society ordered and directed the compilation and publication of the documentary materials included in these volumes. This compilation contains four classes of documents. I. Regular Messages, which include (a) Inaugural Addresses (State Governors), (b) Annual Messages (Territorial Governors), (c) Biennial Messages (State Governors), and (d) Messages communicated at the opening of Special Sessions. II. Veto Messages. III. Special Messages. IV. Proclamations. From the table of contents it will be seen that the several Governors are named in their proper chronological order, and that the documents of each Governor are arranged according to the above classification. Within each class the documents are arranged in chronological order. The source from which each document has been taken for this compilation is clearly indicated in each case. This is necessary since many of the documents may be found in more than one source. In selecting sources, reliance has been placed first of all on official publications and original manuscripts. Resort to unofficial sources, such as newspapers, has been had only when the materials were not dis |
