Appointive Officers.Provision is also made for numerous boards, commissioners, and inspectors, exercising executive power pertaining to their respective offices, which will be considered at some length in the next chapter. The high cost of government to-day is charged, to a large extent, to the needless duplication of work by numerous boards and commissions.
QUESTIONS ON THE TEXT.
1. What is the exact method of electing a Governor in Iowa?
2. What is the Governor's oath of office?
3. What are the functions of a Lieutenant-Governor ?
4. What is the compensation of the Governor? Of the Lieutenant-Governor?
5. Name five powers of the Governor of Iowa.
6. What is the Executive Council and what are its functions?
7. What are the duties of the Secretary of State?
8. What are the duties of the State Auditor?
ADDITIONAL READINGS.
The Messages and Proclamations of the Governors of Iowa from 1836 to 1901 have been published in seven volumes by the State Historical Society of Iowa.
The Executive Veto in Iowa, T. J. H. P., Vol. XV, p. 155. Two articles in the Applied History Series, Vol. II, show the Governor's part in the Appointment and removal of public officers in Iowa. See pp. 317 and 389.
