Excerpt from An Address Delivered at the Annual Commencement of the State University of Iowa: June 21st, 1867 Those who favored the location of the University at Iowa City desired to see the question first tested in the House, and if defeated there, to urge the' Senate bill introduced by Mr. Hughes, with such modifications as might insure its passage. With this view, Smyley II. Bonham presented in the House a petition, signed by over two hundred citizens of the state, asking the location of the University at Iowa City which on his motion was referred to a select committee, With instruc tions to report a bill in compliance with the prayer of the petition. The committee consisted of vley H. Bonham, Of Johnson, John T. Morton, of Henry, and Elijah Sells, Of Muscatine county. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.