THE CODE OF 1873 AS AMENDED, AND ALL PERMANENT, GENERAL AND
PUBLIC ACTS OF THE FIFTEENTH, SIXTEENTH, SEVENTEENTH

AND EIGHTEENTH GENERAL ASSEMBLIES, WITH A BRIEF

DIGEST UNDER EACH SECTION, OF THE DECISIONS
RELATING THERETO.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year Eighteen Hundred and Eighty, by
CALLAGHAN & CO.,

In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.

ΤΟ

WILLIAM G. HAMMOND, LL.D.,

CHANCELLOR OF THE LAW DEPARTMENT

OF THIE

STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA,

IN RECOGNITION OF

THE ABIDING INFLUENCE FOR GOOD

WHICH HE HAS, THROUGH HIS INSTRUCTION AND

EXAMPLE, EXERTED UPON THE GRADUATES OF HIS DEPARTMENT,

AND THE ESTEEM IN WHICH HE IS HELD BY THEM; AND ALSO AS A TOKEN OF PERSONAL REGARD FOR HIM AS A MAN, A TEACHER, AND

A FRIEND, THIS BOOK IS MOST RESPECT

FULLY INSCRIBED BY

THE AUTHOR.