Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-07-19
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Dr. shambaugh's Documentary Ma.
terial Relating to History Of
Iowa Just Out
First Thing Done Was 10 Establish
General Courts Coroners
Came Next.
Is an Interesting Study Showing
Development Of Government
From Crudest Form.

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Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines. July 19.-The second vol.
ume Of DR.. Benjamin F. shambaugh's
"Documentary Material Relating to the
History of Iowa has just been issued
by the State Historical Society. This
volume relates to local government and
contains documents illustrative OF the
development of local government in the
territory Of the northwest from 1887 to
1900, in the territory of Indiana from
| 1900 to 1905, and in the territory OF
Michigan from 1906 to Sept. g. 1884. The
study Of these documents, showing asl
4 they do the development OF local gov
ernment in its crudest form, gives the
student much light upon what the peo-
pie then living in the territory now
known as Iswa were doing. 1t shows us
what they deemed most indispensable
lin the way of law. About the first thing
4 they did was to establish general
courts of quarter sessions Of the peace.
This first act was published at the city
of Marietta, in the county of Washing
4 ton, and territory of the United states
\ northwest of the river Ohio, by his ex-7
sIcellency Arthur st. Clair, Esquire gov
lernor and commander in chief, and
Il Samuel Holden Parsons and James
4 Mitchell yarnum, Esquire, Judges, upon
the twenty-third day Of August in the
4 thirteenth year of the independence OF
3 the United States. and in the year of our
. Lord one thousand, seven hundred and
Ptat. ,ts,h
land providing for coroners and the ee-.
tablishment Of townships county treas
/ ,lrer, county revenue, etc. we find "an
: act for the disposition of strays passed
at Cincinnati the first day of August
{ ll792 In the act directing the building
5 and establishing of a court house, coun-
Ity- jail. pillory. whipping post and
stocks in every county passed August
III, 1892 we find that every county ls
! compelled to maintain these institu-
, tions
! If the Tailor voluntarily suffered any
! prisoner to escape, the jaiior must suf-
lfer the punishment that the escaping
: lprisoner would have suffered had he re-
I mained in Jail or prison, but if the pris-
I oner's escape was simply thru negli-
{ gence the jailor or prison keeper should
5 pay such fine as the court might infiict
6 according to the nature of the offence
y for which the escaped prisoner stood
committed Imprisonment for debt was
: theNthe law. and if a person imprisoned
@ ffo1 kdebr escaped from prison without
I the connivance Of the sheriff or keeper
r and wac recaptured by such officers
within three months the sheriff vas II
: able for nothing further than the costs
e OF such action az may have been com
u,
= sss
9 The first indication Of a regulation OF
i the LIQUOR traffic appears in A law tr
g license and regulate taverns Adopted
e from the Pennsylvania code and pub.
: lished at Cincinnati June II, 1895, by
e Arthur ST. Clair, governor. and Johr
If Cleves Symmes ard George Turner
8 Judges in and over the said territory
10 The law ia as follows:
n Sec. /. For preventing disorders. ant
the mischiefs that may happen by mul
, ItiplicitS of public houses of entertain
:. ment. no person or persons shall in fu
:, ture have or keep an. public inn. "a
:. ern, ale house. or dram shop. or publi'
. house Of entertainment in any county
= town or place within the territory, un
/, less such person or persons shall be frs
!, recommended by the justices. in III
|scourts of general quarter sessions of tn
!, peace for the counties respectively. 7
:. the governor for his license for 90 do
!. ing, under the penalty OF one Dollar pc
- :, day. for every day on which the part
:, offending shall keep such public inr
y. tavern ale house. dram shop or publ
= house of entertainment; to be recovere
IS with costs before any two justices Q
~ y. the peace. in ar action Qui Tam: two
/, thirds whereof shall go to the use of tll
y poor of the township where the offenc
1e may be committed, and the other thir
e to the prosecutor suing for the same
VI effect"
no This whole book. which brings to
d. gether for the first time these earl
OF laws, is of absorbing interest to the stu
ed dent of Iowa history. II tells&the stor
he OF the growth of a people. AS the popi
~ lation increased and life became MOI
ng complex more laws, We're needed. In tt
g good old days of the eighteenth Ger
g tury and the early years of the nine
teentf1. life in Iowa was very gsirlp
w affair and matters regulated themselvt
ay largely without the aid of laws and law
he yers DIR. Shambaugh has rendered az
e. other valuable sarvice to the state
go bringing out of hiding these beginning
of law in the old territories of whic
Iowa was a part. This is the charact,
of work which the Historical socis'
On means to do in the future, to brir
OF within the reach of every thorough st'
OF dent this original information, whie
now can only be obtained by the mo
ol laborious and expensive research tn,
'e- many Libraries. Not ell of 1t can
!, IN found within the state of Iowa, for D
ne shambaugh obtained much of this ma
on ter from the Libraries in Wisconsin al
In Washington.
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