USA > Iowa > The Iowa official register, 1905 > Part 1
Note: The text from this book was generated using artificial intelligence so there may be some errors. The full pages can be found on Archive.org.
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 | Part 14 | Part 15 | Part 16 | Part 17 | Part 18 | Part 19 | Part 20 | Part 21 | Part 22 | Part 23 | Part 24 | Part 25 | Part 26 | Part 27 | Part 28 | Part 29 | Part 30 | Part 31 | Part 32 | Part 33 | Part 34 | Part 35 | Part 36 | Part 37 | Part 38 | Part 39 | Part 40 | Part 41 | Part 42 | Part 43 | Part 44 | Part 45 | Part 46 | Part 47 | Part 48 | Part 49 | Part 50 | Part 51 | Part 52 | Part 53 | Part 54 | Part 55 | Part 56 | Part 57 | Part 58 | Part 59 | Part 60
905
STAR ONE
GC 977.7 IO9N, 1905
M.
GENEALOGY COLLECTION
ALLEN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY 3 1833 01077 2520
GC 977.7 IO9N, 1905
Clarence Newone Strawberry Point Flora
1
-
-
Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2013
http://archive.org/details/iowaofficialregi00iowa
Lesliell Seew
Seventeenth Governor of Iowa, January 13, 1898, to January 16, 1902.
TWENTIETH YEAR.
OWA
OFFICIALS Amicier PUBLISHED BY THE' Stal®
0 1
Secrète
1
By Order of
Gre General Assembly.
1905.
CALENDARS FOR 1905 AND 1906.
1905.
1906.
Sun.
Mon.
Tues.
Wed.
| Thur.
Fri.
Sun.
Mon.
| Tues.
Wed.
| Thur
| Fri.
Sat.
22: | Sun.
NET | Mon.
Doscon Gues.
255w | Wed.
5KG | Fri.
6 13 w | Sat.
Sun.
| Mon.
Tues.
Wed.
| Thur.
4 2 | Sat.
Jan. 1
8
9
11
12 13 14
2
.11
12
15 16
7118
19 20 21
9|10 11
14|15 16
17 18 19|20
15 16 17 |18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
16 17 18 19 20 21 22
21
22 23 24 25 26 27
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30 31 ..
..
..
..
12
3 4
Aug.
:
6 7
8 9 10 11 12
4
5
6 7 8 9 10
5 67
8 9 10 11
12 13 14 15 16 17 18
13 14 15 16 17 18 19
11 |12 13 14 15 16 17
.
19 20 21 22 23 24 25
27 28 29 30 31
.
..
..
1
2
3 4
3 4 5678 . 9
4
5 6 7
8 9 10
2345678 9 10 11|12 |13|14 |15
12 13 11 15 16 17 18
17 18 19 20 21 22 23
18 19 20 21 22 23 24
24 25 26 27 28 29 30
25 26 27 28 29 30 31
16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
April
2 3 4
5 678
123 456 7 89 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21
1 2 3 45 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21
7 8 9|10|11 |12|13
9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22
22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30|
21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 . .
30
Nov.
1
May
Nov.
1 2 3
May
1 23456
5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19|20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 ..
June
1 2
Dec.
June
.1 2 3
18 9 314 567 10 11 |12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23
3456789 10 11 |12 |13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23
24 25 26 27 28 29 30
2345678 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 301311.
.. ..
..
..
..
. .
..
.. .
. .
:
5 6 7 8 9 10 11
12 13 14 15 16 17 18
19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 .. .. ..
20 21 22 23 24 25 26
18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28
26 27 28 29 30 31
March
1 2 3
Sept.
· 1
March
56 7
8 9 10 11
10 11 12 13 14 15 16
11 12 13 14 15 16 17
19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 1
Oct.
April
Oct.
123456
14 15 16 17 18 19 20
23 24 25 26 27 28 29
.: 2 3 4
12345 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
4 5 6 7 8 910 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
Dec.
1 2
4 5 6.7 8 910 11 12 13 14 15 16 17
18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25|26/27 28!29 301 .. |
24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31.
28 29 30 31
.
. .
29 30 31 *
30 31
123 4 5
Feb.
1
2 3
Aug.
1 2 3 4
Feb.
. .
..
000
5-7 | Sat.
July
EA :
8
Jan.
July
8
ESCON
23 24 25 26 27 28 29
..
1
2
Sept.
14 15
ag | Fri.
1
Thur.
Iowa Official Register ...
1537219
1
Compiled by W. B. MARTIN Secretary of State
CERTIFICATE.
STATE OF IOWA, OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF STATE.
In accordance with the provisions of Section 176 of the Code of Iowa of 1897, I hereby certify that this volume of the Iowa Official Register contains a true and correct tabulated statement of the population of the counties, and also of the cities and towns of Iowa, as shown by the last United States census.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this Six- teenth day of February, 1905.
2.3. Martin
Secretary of State.
.
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
PAGE.
FRONTISPIECE-Leslie M. Shaw, Governor from January 13, 1898, to January 16, 1902.
CALENDARS-1905 and 1906. II
ILLUSTRATIONS-
Main building-College for the Blind, Vinton 32
Cottage -- State Hospital for Inebriates, Knoxville. 64
Main building-Soldiers' Home, Marshalltown. 96
Main building-Industrial School for Boys, Eldora
128
Partial view of Mt. Pleasant State Hospital, Mt. Pleasant
160
Hospital building-School for the Deaf, Council Bluffs. 192
224
Main building-Soldiers' Orphans' Home, Davenport.
Iowa Institution for Feeble-Minded Children, Glenwood.
256
Partial view of Ft. Madison Penitentiary, Ft. Madison. 288
Main building-Independence State Hospital, Independence 320
Partial view of Anamosa Penitentiary, Anamosa. 352
Administration building and partial view of wards-Clarinda State Hospital, Clarinda 416
Main building-Cherokee State Hospital, Cherokee 480
Administration building-Industrial School for Girls, Mitchellville .. 544
PART I.
1-100
Articles of confederation and declaration of independence 1-12
Citizer ship and naturalization of aliens 28-34
Constitution of Iowa and amendments. 49-74
Constitution of United States and amendments 13-26
Iowa men who have held cabinet positions 100
Organic law of Iowa and admission of Iowa into the Union 35-48
Presidential succession-Law relative to. 27
Senators and congressmen from Iowa since organization of state 94-100
State and territorial officers-Register of 75-93
PART II 101-170
Judicial officers and times of holding district court 164-170
State officers, departments, commissions, etc. 103-1 8
Thirtieth general assembly-members-organization. 149-163
PART III . 171-236
Board of control and state institutions 173-190
County officers. 203-236
Iowa National Guard-Roster of 191-202
PART IV 237-402 National and state election 1904-party platforms-tickets-commit-
tees-statistics 239-402
vi
Contents.
PAGE
. PART V. 403-477
Transactions of the executive council for the year 1904 . 405-477
Minutes of proceedings-claims approved-canvass of vote. 405-424 Assessment of railway, sleeping car, express, telephone, and telegraph companies 425-477
PART VI. 479-526
National government-officers-Fifty-ninth congress. 481-500
former officials 501-511
State and territorial government-officers.
512-526
PART VII 527-591
Census returns, 1900. 529-540
List of national, state and savings banks in Iowa. 568-591
Post offices in Iowa 541-549
Miscellaneous statistics 557-567
INDEX
592-623
PART I.
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION. CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES. CITIZENSHIP AND NATURALIZATION OF ALIENS. ORGANIC LAW OF IOWA. ADMISSION OF IOWA INTO THE UNION. CONSTITUTION OF IOWA. REGISTER OF TERRITORIAL AND STATE OFFICERS, U. S. SENATORS, CONGRESSMEN, AND CABINET OFFICERS FROM IOWA.
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.
IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776.
THE UNANIMOUS DECLARATION OF THE THIRTEEN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
[Adopted by the Continental Congress July s, and authenticated and pro- claimed July 4, 1776. ]
WHEN in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal ; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness ; that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that, whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these enda, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes ; and, accordingly, all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such govern. ment, and to provide new guards for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies, and such is now the necessity which con- strains them to alter their former systems of government. The history of the present king of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world :
He has refused his assent to laws the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his assent should be obtained, and, when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large districts of people. unless those people would relinquish the right of representation in the legislature-a right inestimable to them, and formidable to tyrants only,
(3)
.
4
Declaration of Independence.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the repository of their public records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissoved representative houses repeatedly for opposing, with manly firmness, his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused, for a long time after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected ; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise; the state remaining, in the meantime, exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavored to prevent the population of these states, for that pur- pose obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners ; refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither, and raising the conditions of new appro- priations of lands.
He has obstructed the adminstration of justice by refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers.
He has made judges dependent on his will alone for the tenure of their offices and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies, without the con- sent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the military independent of, and superior to, the civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution and unacknowledged by our laws, giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation-
For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us.
For protecting them, by a mock trial, from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these states;
For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world.
For imposing taxes on us without our consent ;
For depriving us, in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury ;
For transporting us beyond seas, to be tried for pretended offenses ;
For abolishing the free system of English laws in a neighboring province; establishing therein an arbitrary government, and enlarging its boundaries, so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these colonies ;
For taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable laws, and alter- ing fundamentally the forms of our governments ;
For suspending our own legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated government here by declaring us out of his protection and waging war against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and des- troyed the lives of our people.
He is, at this time, transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to com- plete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun, with circum- stances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow-citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends And brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
E
Declaration of Independence.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress, in the most humble terms ; our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our british brethren. We have warned them, from time to time, of attempts, by their legislature, to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the cir- cumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity ; and we have conjured them, by the ties of our common kindred, to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably inter- rupt our connections and correspondence. They, too, have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity which denounces our separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends.
We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America, in gen- eral congress assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare, that these united colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political con- nection between them and the state of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved; and that, as free and independent states, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and do all other acts and things which independent states may of right do. And for the sup- port of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Devine Pro- vidence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.
JOHN HANCOCK.
New Hampshire .- Josiah Bartlett, Wm. Whipple, Matthew Thornton.
Massachusetts Bay .- Saml. Adams, John Adams, Robt. Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry.
Rhode Island, &c .- Step. Hopkins, William Ellery.
Connecticut .- Roger Sherman, Sam'el Huntington, Wm. Williams, Oliver Walcott.
New York. - Wm. Floyd, Phil. Livingston, Frans. Lewis, Lewis Morris.
New Jersey. - Richd. Stockton, Jno. Witherspoon, Frans. Hopkinson, John Hart, Abra. Clark.
Pennsylvania. - Robt. Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benja. Franklin, John Morton, Geo. Clymer, Jas. Smith, Geo. Taylor James Wilson, Geo. Ross.
Delaware. - Cæsar Rodney, Geo. Read, Tho M'Kean.
Maryland. - Samuel Chase, Wm. Paca, Thos. Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton
Virginia .- Geo. Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Th. Jefferson, Benja. Har- rison, Thos. Nelson, Jun., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton.
North Carolina. - Wm. Hooper, Joseph Hewes. John Penn.
South Carolina. - Edward Rutledge, Thos. Heyward, Jun. , Thomas Lynch, Jun., Arthur Middleton.
Georgia. - Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, Geo. Walton.
6
Articles of Confederation.
ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION AND PERPETUAL UNION BETWEEN THE STATES.
[Adopted by the Congress of the United States November 15, 1777, and submitted for ratification to the several states. Ratification consummated and pro claimed March 1, 1781. ]
SUMMARY.
PREAMBLE.
ARTICLE 1. Style of Confederacy.
ART. 2. Fach state retains all pow- ers not expressly delegated to congress.
ART. 3. Obligations and purposes of the league of the states.
ART. 4. Freedom of intercourse be- tween the states-surrender of fugitives from justice-records, acts and judicial proceedings of courts to be received with full faith and credit by other states.
ART. 5. Congress -how organized and maintained - each state to have one vote-privileges of del- egates.
ART. 6. No state may send embas- sies or make treaties-persons holding office not to accept pres- ents, emoluments or titles from foreign states-nor shall titles of nobility be granted-no two or more states to make treaties without consent of congress-no state duties to interfere with for- eign treaties - restriction upon naval armaments and military forces-militia-arms and muni- tions-war powers limited and defined.
ART. 7. Military appointments.
ART. 8. Equalization of war charges and expenses for the common de- fence-based upon the value of land and improvements thereon -taxes to be levied by states.
ART. 9. Powers of congress-declar- ing peace and war-holding trea- ties-captures and prizes-letters of marque and reprisal-courts for trial of piracies and felonies on high seas-appeals in cases of captures - differences between states-mode of choosing commis- sioners or judges-private right of soil claimed under two or more states-coining money-weights and measures-Indian affairs - post routes-army-navy - com- mittee of the states-other com- mittees-civil officers-president - public expenses - borrowing money-bills of credit-land and naval forces-quotas based upon a census-states to raise and equip men at expense of United States - enumeration of measures re- quiring the assent of a majority of the states-adjournments of congress - journals - copies of proceedings to be furnished to states if desired.
ART. 10. Powers of the committee of the states.
ART. 11. Canada allowed to join the Union-other colonies to require the assent of nine states.
ART. 12. United States pledged for payment of bills of credit and borrowed moneys.
ART. 13. States bound by decisions of congress - union to be per- petual-changes in Articles to be agreed to by every state-ratiti- cation and pledge.
7
Articles of Confederation.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, WE THE UNDER- SIGNED, DELEGATES OF THE STATES AFFIXED TO OUR NAMES, SEND GREETING:
Whereas the delegates of the United States of America in congress assembled did, on the fifteenth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven, and in the second year of the independence of America, agree to certain articles of confederation and perpetual union between the states of New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Penn- sylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, in the words following, viz:
ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION AND PERPETUAL UNION, BETWEEN THE STATES OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, MASSACHUSETTS BAY, RHODE ISLAND AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS, CONNECTICUT, NEW YORK, NEW JERSEY, PENNSYLVANIA, DELAWARE, MARYLAND, VIRGINIA, NORTH CAROLINA, SOUTH CAROLINA AND GEORGIA :-
ARTICLE 1. . The style of this confederacy shall be "THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA."
ART.'2. Each state retains its sovereignty, freedom and independence, and every power, jurisdiction and right which is not by this confederation expressly delegated to the United States, in congress assembled.
ART. 3. The said states hereby severally enter into a firm league of friend- ship with each other for their common defense, the securityof their liberties, and their mutual and general welfare, binding themselves to assist each other against all force offered to or attacks made upon them, or any of them, on account of religion, sovereignty, trade or any other pretense whatever.
ART. 4. The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and inter- course among the people of the different states in this union, the free inhabitants of each of these states, paupers, vagabonds and fugitives from justice excepted, shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several states; and the people of each state shall have free ingress and regress to and from any other state, and shall enjoy therein all the privileges of trade and commerce, subject to the same duties, impositions and restrictions as the inhabitants thereof respectively ; provided that such restrictions shall not extend so far as to prevent the removal of property imported into any state to any other state of which the owner is an inhabitant ; provided, also, that no imposi- tion, duties or restriction, shall be laid by any state on the property of the United States, or either of them.
If any person guilty of or charged with treason, felony or other high misde- meanor in any state shall flee from justice, and be found in any of the United States, he shall upon demand of the governor or executive power of the state from which he fled, be delivered up and removed to the state having jurisdiction of his offense.
Full faith and credit shall be given in each of these states to the records, acts and judicial proceedings of the courts and magistrates of every other state.
ART. 5. « For the more convenient management of the general interests of the United States, delegates shall be annually appointed, in such manner as the legislature of each state shall direct, to meet in congress on the first Monday in November, in every year, with a power reserved to each state to recall its dele-
.
8
Articles of Confederation.
gates, or any of them, at any time within the year, and to send others in their stead for the remainder of the year.
No state shall be represented in congress by less than two, nor by more than seven, members; and no person shall be capable of being a delegate for more than three years in any term of six years; nor shall any person, being a dele- gate, be capable of holding any office under the United States for which he, or another for his benefit, receives any salary, fees or emolument of any kind.
Each state shall maintain its own delegates in a meeting of the states, and while they act as members of the committee of these states.
In determining questions in the United States in congress assembled, each state shall have one vote.
Freedom of speech and debate in congress shall not be impeached or ques- tioned in any court or place out of congress, and the members of congress shall be protected in their persons from arrests and imprisonments, during the time of their going to and from and attendance on congress, except for treason, felony or breach of the peace.
ART. 6. No state, without the consent of the United States in congress assembled, shall send any embassy to, or receive any embassy from, or enter into any conference, agreement, alliance or treaty with, any king, prince or state; nor shall any person holding any office of profit or trust under the United States, or any of them, accept of any present, emolument, office or title of any kind whatever, from any king, prince or foreign state; nor shall the United States in congress assembled, or any of them, grant any title of nobility.
No two or more states shall enter into any treaty, confederation or alliance whatever between them, without the consent of the United States in congress assembled, specifying accurately the purposes for which the same is to be entered into, and how long it shall continue.
No state shall lay any imposts or duties which may interfere with any stip- ulations in treaties, entered into by the United States in congress assembled, with any king, prince or state, in pursuance of any treaties already proposed by congress, to the courts of France and Spain.
No vessels of war shall be kept up in time of peace by any state, except such number only as shall be deemed necessary by the United States, in con- gress assembled, for the defense of such state, or its trade, nor shall any body of forces be kept up by any state, in time of peace, except such number only as in the judgment of the United States, in congress assembled, shall be deemed requisite to garrison the forts necessary for the defense of such state, but every state shall always keep up a well regulated and disciplined militia, sufficiently armed and accoutred, and shall provide and constantly have ready for use, in public stores, a due number of field-pieces and tents, and a proper quantity of arms, ammunition and camp-equipage.
No state shall engage in any war, without the consent of the United States in congress assembled, unless such state be actually invaded by enemies, or shall have received certain advice of a resolution being formed by some nation of Indians to invade such state, and the danger is so imminent as not to admit of a delay, till the United States, in congress assembled, can be consulted; nor shall any state grant commissions to any ships or vessels of war, nor letters of marque or reprisal, except it be after a declaration of war by the United States in congress assembled, and then only against the kingdom or state, and the subjects thereof, against which war has been so declared, and under such regu- lations as shall be established by the United States in congress assembled, unless such state be infested by pirates, in which case vessels of war may be
Need help finding more records? Try our genealogical records directory which has more than 1 million sources to help you more easily locate the available records.