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chapter 10, of the Code, and enact a substitute 

 therefor in relation to the election of aldermen 

 in cities of the first class. Provides for the 

 election of aldermen for each ward, and two at 

 large, in the year 1882, and arranges for the 

 term of office of one alderman to expire each 

 year. 



An act to legalize the sale and transfer by 

 the St. Paul and Sioux City Kailroad Company 

 of its railroads in Iowa to the Chicago, St. 

 Paul, Minneapolis, and Omaha Railway Com- 

 pany, and to legalize the issue of its stock and 

 bonds thereon by the last-named company. 



An act to submit to a vote of the people the 

 proposed amendment to the Constitution pro- 

 hibiting the manufacture and sale of intoxi- 

 cating liquors as a beverage within this State, 

 fixing Tuesday, June 27, 1882, as the date upon 

 which to submit said proposed amendment to a 

 vote of the people. 



An act was also passed to divide the State 

 into eleven congressional districts. These dis- 

 tricts are constituted as follow : 



First District: the counties of Lee, Des 

 Moines, Henry, Van Buren, Jefferson, Wash- 

 ington, and Louisa. 



Second District : the counties of Jones, Jack- 

 son, Clinton, Cedar, Scott, and Muscatine. 



Third District : the counties of Dubuque, Del- 

 aware, Buchanan, Black Hawk, Bremer, But- 

 ler, and Grundy. 



Fourth District: the counties of Clayton, 

 Fayette, Winneshiek, Allamakee, Howard, 

 Mitchell, Floyd, and Chickasaw. 



Fifth' District: the counties of Marshall, 

 Tama, Benton, Linn, Johnson, and Iowa. 



Sixth District : the counties of Jasper, Powe- 

 shiek, Mahaska, Monroe, Wapello, Keokuk, and 

 Davis. 



Seventh District: the counties of Guthrie, 

 Dallas, Polk, Adair, Madison, Warren, and Ma- 

 rion. 



Eighth District: the counties of Clarke, 

 Lucas, Ringgold, Decatur, Wayne, Appanoose, 

 Union, Adams, Page, and Taylor. 



Ninth District: the counties of Pottawat- 

 tamie, Cass, Mills, Audubon, Crawford, Mont- 

 gomery, Shelby, Fremont, and Harrison. 



Tenth District : the counties of Boone, Story, 

 Hardin, Hamilton, Webster, Franklin, Wright, 

 Humboldt, Hancock, Cerro Gordo, Worth, 

 Winnebago, and Kossuth. 



Eleventh District : the counties of Lyon, Os- 

 ceola, Dickinson, Emmet, Sioux, O'Brien, Clay, 

 Palo Alto, Plymouth, Cherokee, Buena Vista, 

 Pocahontas, Woodbury, Ida, Sac, Calhoun, Mo- 

 nona, Carroll, and Greene. 



The prohibitory amendment to the Consti- 

 tution was agreed to. 



The following joint resolutions, among oth- 

 ers, were adopted : 



Joint resolution, proposing to amend section 1 ? of 

 Article II, of the Constitution of Iowa, by striking 

 therefrom the word "male" (female suffrage). 



Joint resolution ? proposing amendments to the con- 

 stitution and providing for their reference and publi- 

 cation. This resolution proposes four separate amend- 



ments to the Constitution, to wit: t. To hold the 

 general election for State, district, county, and town- 

 ship officers on the Tuesday next after the first Mon- 

 day in November. 2. That at any regular session of 

 the General Assembly the State may be divided into 

 the necessary judicial districts for district court pur- 

 poses, or the said districts may be reorganized and 

 the number of the districts and the judges of said 

 courts increased or diminished, but no reorganization 

 of the districts or diminution of the judges shall have 

 the effect of removing a iudge from office. 3. The 

 grand jury may consist ot any number of members, 

 not less than five nor more than fifteen, as the General 

 Assembly may by law provide, or the General Assem- 

 bly may provide for holding persons to answer for 

 any criminal offense without the intervention of a 

 grand jury. 4. That section 13, of Article V, of the 

 Constitution be stricken therefrom and the following 

 adopted as such section: "The qualified electors of 

 each county shall, at the general election in the year 

 1886 and every two years thereafter, elect a county 

 attorney, who shall be a resident of the county for 

 which he is elected, and who shall hold his office for 

 two years, and until his successor is elected and 

 qualified." 



By a congressional act the State was divided 

 into two Federal districts for judicial purposes. 

 The Southern District will have court at Des 

 Moines, Council Bluffs, and Keokuk, and the 

 Northern at Dubuque, Fort Dodge, and Sioux 

 City. 



PROHIBITORY AMENDMENT. The temperance 

 campaign was opened early. On the 26th of 

 January a State Convention was held in Des 

 Moines, with a view to influencing legislative 

 action, in which sixty-five of the ninety -nine 

 counties were represented by 200 delegates. 

 The following preamble and resolutions were 

 adopted : 



Rejoicing in the patriotic recognition of the funda- 

 mental principles of republicanism and democracy as 

 expressed by the Legislature of Iowa in 1880, by their 

 action proposing to submit to a vote of the people the 

 pending prohibitory amendment, and relying upon 

 the fidelity of the majority in the present General 

 Assembly' to both these principles, and their pledges 

 already made, we hail the near approach of the day 

 of decisive battle for the happiness, prosperity, and 

 future glory of Iowa, and do inscribe upon our ban- 

 ners the constitutional amendment passed by the 

 Eighteenth General Assembly, and based upon Arti- 

 cle I, section 2, of the Constitution of the State of 

 Iowa, which declares that " all political power is in- 

 herent in the people. Government is instituted for 

 the protection, security, and benefit of the people, and 

 they have the right at all times to alter or reform the 

 same, whenever the public good may require it." 



We, the representatives of the temperance senti- 

 ment of the people, do therefore make the following 

 declaration of principles and purposes : 



Resolved, That the saloons and other places where 

 intoxicating liquors are sold as a beverage, now ex- 

 isting under the law and tolerated in this State, add 

 nothing to the health, peace, prosperity, and happi- 

 ness of the people, but on the contrary are the chief 

 source of crime, lawlessness, poverty, and wretched- 

 ness, and their effectual suppression can only be 

 effected by the adoption of the principle and policy 

 of constitutional prohibition. 



Resolved. That we ask the Legislature to provide 

 for the holding of said special election on the first 

 Saturday of September, 1882, being the 2d day of 

 said month. 



Resolved, That the selling of intoxicating liquors 

 as a beverage by many hundreds of drug-stores, under 

 the cover and protection of the pharmacy laws of 

 Iowa, is an infamy more base than ordinary saloon- 



