An increase of the mail service between New York, New Orleans, San Francisco, Umpqua harbor, Astoria, and the intermediate points of mail delivery, which may hereafter be established by future mail contracts, in that territory.

MARCH 16, 1854.-Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, and ordered to be printed.

JOINT RESOLUTION.

Resolved, by the legislative assembly of the Territory of Oregon, That the delegate to Congress from said Territory be, and he is hereby, requested to procure, if practicable, the passage of a law, at the present session of Congress, re-establishing additional mail service between New York, New Orleans, San Francisco, Umpqua harbor, and Astoria, and the intermediate points of mail delivery which may be established by future mail contracts in this Territory, so as to provide, between the points aforesaid, mail service, each way, four times each month.

Resolved, That, in the judgment of this assembly, the public interests will be best promoted by providing the additional mail service, twice a month, between the points aforesaid, via the Isthmus of Nicaragua, instead of the Isthmus of Panama-thus securing semi-monthly mails by both routes. And our delegate in Congress is requested to urge the adoption of the Nicaraqua route for the additional semi-monthly service aforesaid.

Resolved, That copies of these resolutions be forwarded by the president of the council to the senators and representatives of California in Congress, with the request that they co-operate with our delegate in securing the objects of the same.

Passed house of representatives, January 3, 1854.
Passed council, January 5, 1854.

Z. C. BISHOP,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.
R. WILCOX,

President of Council.

I hereby certify the foregoing to be a true copy of the original.

R. WILCOX.

1st Session.

No. 37.

RESOLUTIONS

OF THE

LEGISLATURE OF WISCONSIN,

RECOMMENDING

A reprint of D. D. Owens's report of a survey of the mineral lands in Iowa, Wisconsin, and northern Illinois.

MARCH 16, 1854.-Referred to the Committe on Printing, and ordered to be printed.

JOINT RESOLUTIONS.

Resolved, by the senate and assembly of the State of Wisconsin, That our senators in Congress be requested to procure the Senate of the United States to order a reprint of the report of D. D Owens's survey of the mineral lands in Iowa, Wisconsin, and northern Illinois, with the accompanying illustrations, in the same style as the report of a geological survey of Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota, &c., by D. D. Owen, United States geologist; published in 1852, by order of the United States Senate, by Lippencott, Grambo and Co., which report was submitted by the President of the United States to the House of Representatives June 6, 1840, and is now published in volume 4, part 2, of the executive documents of the 2d session of the 28th Congress, (Doc. No. 239.)

Resolved, That the governor of this State be requested to forward a copy of the forgoing resolutions to each of the senators of this State. FREDERICK W. HORN,

Speaker of the Assembly.

JAMES T. LEWIS,

President of the Senate.

Approved, March 8, 1854.

WM. A. BARSTOW.

STATE OF WISCONSIN, SECRETARY'S OFFICE, 88.

I, Alexander T. Gray, secretary of state of the State of Wisconsin, do hereby certify that I have compared the copy of the joint resolutions, hereto attached, with the original joint resolutions deposited in this office, and that the same is a true copy thereof.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the [L. S.] great seal of the State, at the capitol in Madison, this eighth day of March, 1854.

ALEXANDER T. GRAY,
Secretary of State.

1st Session.

No. 38.

MEMORIAL

OF

THE LEGISLATURE OF LOUISIANA,

IN RELATION

To granting lands within that State for railroad purposes.

MARCH 20, 1854.-Ordered to lie on the table, and be printed.

EXECUTIVE OFFICE,

Baton Rouge, La., March 8, 1854.

DEAR SIR: The governor of the State of Louisiana, respectfully calls your attention to the annexed memorial and resolutions.

THOS. B. R. HATCH,

Hon. JOHN SLIDELL.

Private Secretary to the Governor.

COPY OF "MEMORIAL AND RESOLUTIONS OF THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA, IN RELATION TO GRANTING PUBLIC LANDS WITHIN THE STATE OF LOUISIANA FOR RAILROAD PURPOSES."

To the Congress of the United States:

We, the senate and house of representatives of the State of Louisiana, respectfully present the following to the consideration of your honorable bodies.

The greatly increasing commerce on the gulf of Mexico, and the correspondent increase afterward, upon its shores, suggestive as both are of their more direct and speedy extension from hence to our possessions on the Pacific, have created, in our judgment, an urgent necessity for the establishment of a railroad between the cities of New Orleans and Mobile to fill an important link between our Atlantic and Pacific borders-giving a dispatch to mails, and serving all other emergencies which a condition of peace or war may superinduce.

In view of the many advantages and facilities that would result to the public by the construction of such a road, the legislatures of Alabama and Mississippi, in promotion of the object, have incorporated a company denominated "the Mobile and New Orleans railroad company;" and the legislature of this State, to the like end and object, have so extended the corporate powers of the Pontchartrain railroad company in this behalf, that both said companies are engaged in the common