Iowa Constitution
Article XI - MISCELLANEOUS.
§ 8 Seat of government established — state university.
The seat of government is hereby permanently
established, as now fixed by law, at the city of Des Moines, in the
county of Polk; and the state university, at Iowa City, in the county of
Johnson.
In January of 1855, the fifth general assembly established a commission to relocate the seat of government to within two miles of the junction of the Des Moines and Raccoon rivers in Polk county, see 1855 Acts, ch 72
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