OF THE

House of Representatives

OF THE

SEVENTEENTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

OF THE

STATE OF IOWA,

WHICH CONVENED AT THE CAPITOL, IN DES MOINES, IOWA, JAN. 14, 1878.

DES MOINES :

R. P. CLARKSON, STATE PRINTER.

1878.

JOURNAL

OF THE

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

HALL OF HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,}

DES MOINES, Iowa, January 14, 1878.

Pursuant to law, the House of Representatives of the Seventeenth General Assembly, met at 2 o'clock, P. M., and was called to order by Mr. Wilson of Polk county.

Prayer by Rev. J. R. Effinger.

On motion of Mr. Alford of Black Hawk county, James W. Logan of Black Hawk county, was chosen Chief Clerk, pro tem.

On motion of Mr. Hotchkiss of Davis, the roll was called by districts, and the members present presented their credentials to the Clerk, as follows:

1st District-Lee, J. D. M. Hamilton, and Jacob H. Lessenger. 2d District-Des Moines, Martin Kopp, and Walcott Seymour. 3d District-Henry, William Allen, and Jacob Kauffman.

4th District-Jefferson, John Herron.

5th District-Van Buren, O. H. P. Scott.

6th District-Wapello, W. A. Fast, and J. A. Israel.
7th District-Davis, L. D. Hotchkiss.
8th District-Monroe, R. W. Duncan.
9th District-Appanoose, S. T. Sherrard.
10th District-Lucas, Smith H. Mallory.
11th District-Wayne, Greenwood Wright.
12th District-Clarke, John Stephenson.
13th District-Decatur, J. W. Warnock.
14th District-Union, James Doty.
15th District-Ringgold, Allen Higgins.
16th District-Adams, George A. Morse.
17th District-Taylor, James P. Flick.
18th District-Montgomery, Geo. T. Ashby.
19th District-Page, Edwin B. Hoag.

20th District-Mills, John Y. Stone.

21st District-Fremont, Joseph Rhode.

22d District-Pottawattamie, George Carson, and B. F. Clayton.

23d District-Cass, Oll Coomes.

24th District-Madison, William F. Hadley.

25th District--Warren, George Wright.

26th District-Marion, John B. Elliott, and Wm. M. Stone.

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