Page:History of Iowa From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century Volume 3.djvu/365

 EARLY HISTORY OF IOWA COUNTIES HE first legislation providing for the creation of counties within the limits of the territory which eventually became the State of Iowa, was an act of the Legislative Assembly of Michigan Territory in 1834, as follows:

An act to lay off and organize counties west of the Mississippi River.

The Indian title was at that time extinguished to a region extending form the north line of Missouri to the mouth of the Upper Iowa River and fifty miles in width west of the Mississippi River. It will be seen that the two

* This was the name of a county east of the Mississippi River in that portion of Michigan Territory which afterwards became the State of Wisconsin.