Excerpt from History of Road Legislation in IowaIn the preparation Of this volume on the History of Road Legislation in Iowa the author has endeavored to make that thorough and impartial study of the historical facts and tendencies which is demanded not only for the Iowa Economic History Series but for all other publications of The State Historical Society of Iowa. Moreover, since it is now proposed to use the materials of this volume as the basis of a contribution to an applied history series, in which the subject of highways will be discussed in reference to a rational program Of constructive legislation, exhaustive in vestigation and disinterested research are doubly impera tive.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.