House file No. 33, an act to revise, amend and codify the statutes in relation to intoxicating liquors; approved May 8.

House file No. 82, an act to revise, amend and codify the statutes in relation to procedure in particular cases; approved May 8.

House file No. 84, an act to revise, amend and codify the statutes in relation to evidence; approved May 6.

House file No. 115, an act to abolish the Iowa Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument Commission and transferring their duties to the Executive Council; approved May 10.

House file No. 99, an act to legalize the acts of, and to establish the independent school-district of Washington Mills; approved May 10.

F. M. DRAKE.

TO THE SENATE

MAY 11, 1897

From the Journal of the Senate, p. 1209

To the Senate:

I have the honor to inform the honorable the Senate that I have approved, signed, and caused to be deposited with the Secretary of State, bills passed by the General Assembly, as follows:

Senate file No. 10, an act to revise, amend and codify the statutes in relation to elections and officers; approved May 6th.

Senate file No. 15, an act to revise, amend and codify the statutes relative to the militia, approved May 8th.

Senate file No. 35, an act to revise, amend and codify the

statutes in relation to the care and propagation of fish, and the protection of birds and game; approved May 6th.

Senate file No. 48, an act to revise, amend and codify the statutes in relation to the State library and historical collections; approved May 10th.

Senate file No. 77, an act to revise, amend and codify the statutes in relation to criminal procedure; approved May 6th. Senate file No. 1, an act to provide for the annotation, indexing, publication, distribution and sale of the Code, and statutes hereafter enacted, and the appointment of a supervising committee, and the election of an editor, and prescribing their duties; approved May 4th.

Senate file No. 99, an act to amend subdivision 2 of section 796 of the Code as amended and re-enacted by chapter 43 of the acts of the Twenty-second General Assembly, and to amend section 1381 of the Code as amended by chapter 149 of the acts of the Sixteenth General Assembly, chapter 166 of the acts of the Seventeenth General Assembly, and chapter 10 of the acts of the Twenty-first General Assembly, relating to the poor; approved May 4th.

Senate file No. 87, an act to repeal chapter 63 of the laws of the Twenty-third General Assembly and enact a substitute therefor, and providing for the appropriation of money to aid in procuring a library for the penitentiary at Anamosa; approved May 5th.

Senate file No. 110, an act to authorize boards of supervisors to transfer to the county road fund so much of the surplus of the general fund as arises from the taxation of the traffic in intoxicating liquors; approved May 8th.

Senate file No. 112, an act to make appropriations for

the payment of the compensation of members of the Twenty-sixth General Assembly, at extra session, of state expenses and other bills; approved May 8th.

Senate file No. 101, an act to legalize the act of the board of supervisors and county auditor and the vote of the people of Polk county in relation to levying a tax to raise funds to build an asylum in said county for the care of the insane; approved May 5th.

F. M. DRAKE.

TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY

JANUARY 13, 1898

From the Iowa Legislative Documents, 1898, Vol. IV

To the General Assembly:

In accordance with the requirements of section 16, article 4 of the constitution, I herewith transmit to you a report of each case of reprieve, commutation, and pardon granted and the reasons therefor, and also of all persons in whose favor remission of fines and forfeitures was made, and the several amounts remitted, during my official term, which closed January 13, 1898.1

F. M. DRAKE.

For full text of report referred to see Iowa Legislative Documents, 1898, Vol. IV.

PROCLAMATIONS

ON FILLING A VACANCY IN THE HOUSE OF

REPRESENTATIVES

FEBRUARY 18, 1896

From MS. Copy of Executive Journal, Vol. IX, p. 202-in the Office of the Governor, Des Moines

Whereas, a vacancy exists in the office of representative in the General Assembly by reason of the death of Freeman McClelland, representative from the County of Linn, being the forty-eighth representative district of the State, And

Whereas, The General Assembly is now in session, Now, therefore, I, Francis M. Drake, Governor of the State of Iowa, by virtue of authority in me vested by law, do hereby order a special election to fill the vacancy thus occasioned, to be held in the county and district aforesaid on Tuesday the third day of March, A. D. 1896.

Whereof, all electors in said county and district will take due notice, and the sheriff of said county of Linn will take official notice and be governed accordingly.

(SEAL)

my

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set

hand and caused to be affixed the Great Seal of the State of Iowa.

Done at Des Moines, this eighteenth day of February, A. D., 1896.

By the Governor

W. M. MCFARLAND,

Sec. of State.

F. M. DRAKE.

ON MEMORIAL DAY

MAY 12, 1896

From MS. Copy of Executive Journal, Vol. IX, p. 236-—in the Office of the Governor, Des Moines

The memory of those who left the comforts of home that they might help preserve a government by the people and who in that behalf gave up their lives on the field of battle, in the prison pen, or stricken down by disease, cannot be too highly honored by the people of the land they loved and served so well. In the course of the revolving seasons the day again approaches which a beautiful custom, reinforced by statute-law, has made sacred to the memory of the brave men whose deeds of valor, whose sufferings, and whose triumphs make up so large a part of the history of the republic.

It is a constant

Let us help perpetuate the custom. reminder of the sufferings made for liberty and union, while its continued observance will be a guarantee that the results of the great civil war, so beneficial not only to our own land but to the cause of liberty everywhere, will be endur ingly enjoyed by our people and thus be a perpetual inspiration to the oppressed of other lands to endeavor to obtain for themselves political institutions like those which have been so promotive of the prosperity of the people of America.

Again we are entered on another series of patriotic anniversaries-the semi-centennial of the last foreign war in which our country has been engaged, the first battles of which were fought in the month of May, fifty years ago.