HF 2028 (LSB 5049HH (8) 83)

HOUSE FILE 2028

BY  ZIRKELBACH

A BILL FOR

An Act relating to the description of the great seal of the state of Iowa.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  Section 1A.1, Code 2009, is amended to read as follows:
   1A.1  Seal —— device —— motto.

   The secretary of state be, and is, hereby authorized to procure a seal which shall be the great seal of the state of Iowa, two inches in diameter, upon which shall be engraved the following device, surrounded by the words, “The Great Seal of the State of Iowa” —— a sheaf and field of standing wheat, with a sickle and other farming utensils, on the left side near the bottom; a lead furnace and pile of pig lead on the right side; the citizen soldier, with standing in front of a plow in his rear, supporting the American flag and liberty cap with his right hand, and his gun with his left, in the center and near the bottom; the Mississippi river in the rear of the whole, with the steamer Iowa under way; an eagle near the upper edge, holding in his beak a scroll, with the following inscription upon it:  Our liberties we prize, and our rights we will maintain.
EXPLANATION
   This bill corrects a malapropism in the legal description of the great seal of the state of Iowa. The bill describes the citizen soldier as standing in front of a plow.