2d Session.

No. 50.

IMPROVEMENT OF FOX RIVER.

MEMORIAL

OF THE

LEGISLATURE OF WISCONSIN,

RELATIVE TO

The improvement of the entrance of Fox river into Green bay.

FEBRUARY 11, 1867.-Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed.

To the honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled.

The memorial of the legislature of the State of Wisconsin respectfully represents that, from the report of Major Wheeler, who was placed in charge of the appropriation made at the first session of the 39th Congress, it appears that a further sum is necessary to make a straight cut to the entrance of Fox river, such as the wants of the shipping require; and believing it to be for the interest of all parties that the work should be completed as early as possible in accordance with the report of said Major Wheeler, we earnestly pray that such further sum may be appropriated as will, with the present unexpended appropriation, complete the straight cut aforesaid, and, by so doing, greatly benefit the northeastern part of the State, and give value to much unsold land of the United States; and your memorialists will ever pray, &c.

ANGUS CAMERON,

Speaker of the Assembly. WYMAN SPOONER,

Approved February 6, 1867.

President of the Senate.

LUCIUS FAIRCHILD,

Governor.

STATE OF WISCONSIN, Secretary's Office, ss:

The secretary of state of the State of Wisconsin hereby certifies that the foregoing has been compared with the original enrolled memorial on file in this office, and that the same is a true and correct copy thereof, and of the whole of such original.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the great seal of the State, at the Capitol, in Addison, this 6th day of February, A. D. 1867. [SEAL.] THOS. G. ALLEN, Secretary of State.

2d Session.

No. 51.

NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY.

CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS

OF

THE LEGISLATURE OF NEW YORK,

IN FAVOR OF

Granting government aid to the northern Pacific railway.

FEBRUARY 9, 1867.--Referred to the Committee on the Pacific Railroad and ordered to be

printed.

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,

Albany, February 9, 1867.

SIR: I have the honor to transmit a copy of concurrent resolutions passed by the legislature relative to the northern Pacific railway.

Very respectfully,

R. C. FENTON.

Whereas the State of New York, having within her borders, the commercial metropolis of the nation, is geographically situated at the foot of the great chain of inland lakes, with her eastern boundary resting upon the Atlantic ocean, and is therefore deeply interested in all questions which affect the commerce of the lakes; and whereas it is ascertained that an interoceanic communication across the continent can be established between the city of New York, on the Atlantic, and the mouth of the Columbia, on the Pacific, by the construction of the northern Pacific railway, from the western boundary of Lake Superior, thus combining seventeen hundred miles of cheap water lines (to wit, thirteen hundred miles of river, canal, and lakes on the east, and four hundred miles of navigable waters of the Columbia river on the west) with fourteen hundred miles of railway intermediate; and whereas this combined water and railway communication, though situated in the forty-sixth degree of north latitude, passes through a rich agricultural and mineral country, with a climate as temperate as that of northern Pennsylvania, and must therefore forever afford the cheapest mode of transit across the continent, thus securing to our State the great flow of trade which must in the future inevitably sweep across our territory between eastern and southern Asia on the one side and western Europe on the other; and whereas the speedy development of the vast resources of our great country is demanded by every consideration of sound policy, with a view to the easy and early liquidation of our national debt; therefore

Resolved, That our senators and members in Congress be requested to advocate the passage of an act granting such government aid to the northern Pacific railway as will insure its early construction and completion.

Resolved, That the governor of the State be requested to transmit a copy of the foregoing preamble and resolution to each of our senators and members in Congress at as early a day as possible.

2d Session.

No. 52.

PENSIONS.

RESOLUTION

OF

THE LEGISLATUREOF WEST VIRGINIA,

ASKING

Additional pensions for the surviving soldiers of the war of 1812.

FEBRUARY 18, 1867.-Referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions and ordered to be printed.

Resolved by the legislature of West Virginia, 1. That our senators and representatives in Congress be requested to procure, if possible, the passage of a law to increase the pensions of the surviving soldiers of the war of 1812.

2. That the governor be directed to certify and forward a copy of these resoIntions to each of our senators and representatives in Congress. Adopted January 28, 1867.

STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA,

Clerk's Office, House of Delegates:

I, William P. Hubbard, clerk of the house of delegates and keeper of the rolls of West Virginia, certify that the foregoing is a true transcript from the rolls in this office.

WILLIAM P. HUBBARD,

Clerk of House of Delegates and Keeper of the Rolls of West Virginia.

STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA,

Office of the Secretary of State:

I, Granville D. Hall, secretary of state aforesaid, hereby certify that the foregoing is a copy of the original filed in this office; and further, that Wm. P. Hubbard, whose genuine signature is annexed to said original, is, as keeper of the rolls of this State, authorized to certify copies from the records of the legislature of this State.

Given under my hand and the great seal of said State, this 11th day of February, 1867. [SEAL.]

GRANVILLE D. HALL.
Secretary of State.