THE STATUTE LAWS

OF THE

TERRITORY OF IOWA,

ENACTED AT THE FIRST SESSION OF THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY
OF SAID TERRITORY, HELD AT BURLINGTON, A. D. 1838-'39.

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.

DU BUQUE :

RUSSELL & REEVES, PRINTERS.

1839.

450988

CERTIFICATE.

I, WILLIAM B. CONWAY, Secretary of the Territory of Iowa, having compared the following pages with the "engrossed bills" deposited in my office, do hereby certify, that they contain true and correct copies of the Statute Laws and Joint Resolutions passed at the first session of the Legislative Assembly of said Territory, 1838-139.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name, this 23d day of July, A. D. 1839.

WM. B. CONWAY,

Secretary of the Territory.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE,

CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES,