The material was transcribed by Charlene Hixon, member of the Iowa City Genealogical Society

A list of able bodied white male citizens of Johnson county, State of Iowa, between the ages of eighteen and forty-five years subject to military duty, as taken by the assessor of said County for the year 1848.
(From the Briggs Collection.)

The following certification is shown at the end of the list in the official record:

State of Iowa
Johnson County
          I hereby certify the foregoing to be a true copy of the list filed in my office on the 4^th day of July 1848 by the Assessor of said County.
          In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Board of Commissioners of said County at Iowa City this 29^th day of July AD 1848
                   Stephen B. Gardner, Clerk
                    Board of Commissioners
                    Johnson County, Iowa