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CENTRAL BUILDING.—OLD CAPITOL.

LAW DEPARTMENT OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA.

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N March, 1865, the Trustees of the State University of Iowa, located at Iowa City in accordance with the provision of the State Constitution of 1857, by which the State Capital was removed from that city to Des Moines, requested from the Judges of the Supreme Court a report as to the expediency of organizing a Law Department. In June of that year such a report was made, strongly recommending the creation of such a Department. The reasons for such a recommendation are cogently set forth as follows:

In another report on the same subject the following considerations are also submitted: