tection and benefits of the courts of justice agreeable to our fies institutions, and believing that a very small amount of money in proportion to the great and numerous benefits resulting there from is required inasmuch as said road will run upon a ridge of beautiful and fertile prairie with tracts of valuable timber interspersed so as to render the country a most valuable country for agriculture nearly the whole distance, and believing that such a road would open a vast and valuable country for the settlement of enterprising persons, your memorialists therefore respectfully urge upon your consideration the necessity of immediately establish ipg said road, and as in duty bound will ever pray. APPROVED February 2rd, 1846.

MEMORIAL to Congress on the subject of a Collection District and a Port of Entry.

To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States in Congress assembled:

The memorial of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Wisconsin respectfully represents: That much inconvenience is experienced by the maratime interests on the northern fakes, by reason of the imperfect organization and arrangement of revenue service in this region. Under the present system, the whole country bordering the great Lakes of Huron, Michigan and Superior, are embraced in the collection district of Detroit, and the office there located remote from the greater part of said district; sub-offices, it is true, are located at different points on Lake Michigan, which may have been all that was requisite while our population was small and our commerce in its infancy, but such an arrangement is at the present time quite insufficient to sustain the interest and meet the proper demands of our present commerce which is annually increasing in a ratio unprecedented in the his

tory of this country. Wisconsin now contains a large population and a large and increasing trade, with a shipping interest in the hands of her citizens quite proportionate to that trade, and it is deemed but justice to them, and to the people at large, that a collection district and a port of entry, be established, so as to promote in the highest degree this important branch of the govern

ment service.

Your memorialists therefore respectfully ask that an act may be passed at your present session of Congress to form the country on the western shore of Lake Michigan, Green Bay and the southern and western shore of Lake Superior with its tributary waters within this Territory, into a collection district, and that the city of Milwaukee be made a port of entry, and to authorize the appointment of a collector to reside there, and sub-collectors or inspectors at Southport, Racine, Sheboygan and Green Bay, with such powers as are usual under the revenue and maritime jaws of the United States in such cases provided.

APPROVED January 27, 1816.

A MEMORIAL to Congress for the improven ent of the Fox and Wisconsin rivers.

To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States:

The memorial of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Wisconsin respectfully showeth, That conceiving the improve. ments of the Fox and Wisconsin rivers, by the creation of slack water navigation through the rapids of the Fox and by removing the bars and other obstructions to the free passage of the Wisconsin river, to be of vast consequence to the growth and prosperous prosecution of an inland trade. This subject is again urgently pressed upon the attention of Congress. This route is

the only natural one by which a free navigation may be opened between the lakes and the Mississippi, and has been noted by tra vellers as such for nearly two centuries past. Your memoria lists believe that the time has arrived when this channel of communication so long and favorably known, should be regarded as of national importance and an appropriation made for its speedy completion.

APPROVED January 20th, 1846,

A MEMORIAL to Congress relative to the Canal Lands.

The memorial of the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Wisconsin, to the Senate and House of Rep resentatives of the United States in Congress assembled, respectfully sheweth:

That a large tract of land situated in the most fertile portion, of Wisconsin was granted in the year 1833, by Congress, to this. Territory, for the purpose of constructing the Milwaukee and Rock River Canal. That the idea of making such a canal bas long been abandoned by all as inexpedient; that said tract is now occupied by many enterprising settlers who are suffering under all the calamities which attend the want or uncertainty of title to their houses and farms.

The want of title to this large tract of land, in the finest section of our Territory, greatly retards the settlement and improvement of the country, the establishment of schools, the construc tion of roads, and all other works which add to the advancement of society.

Your memorialists, with a desire to benefit that portion of citi zens, as far as was within their power, passed an act, on the 24th day of February last, authorizing a sale of said lands, at the min

imum price of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, provided the same should be approved by your honorable body.

We beg leave, therefore, most urgently to call your attention to said act, and to the condition of these settlers. It is universally admitted in this Territory that those settlers should have the same rights with other settlers upon the public lands; that they should be entitled to a pre-emption at one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, and that the remaining lands not yet pre-empted should be offered for sale at the same minimum price, and as soon as possible.

APPROVED January 14th, 1846,

MEMORIAL to Congress for an appropriation to complete the improvement of the steamboat landing at Potosi, on the Mississippi River, in Wiscon

sin.

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

The memorial of the Conncil and House of Representatives of the Territory of Wisconsin respectfully represents:

That Congress by an act entitled "an act granting a section of land for the improvement of Grant river at the town of Potosi, in Wisconsin Territory," approved June 15, 1844, appropriated to the said Territory section thirty-four, in township three, of range three west, for the purpose of improving the Grant River Slough, which is a bayou of the Mississippi River, upon the north bank of which is the steamboat landing of the town of Potosi, in said Territory; that in pursuance of the intentions of Congress as expressed in said act, the Territory of Wisconsin have caused said section to bè sold, and the nett proceeds arising from said sale, after deducting there from all expenses, are two thousand

seven hundred and twenty-five dollars and forty-three cents.The commissioners appointed by the Legislative Assembly of Wisconsin, have caused a reconoisance and survey of the im provements necessary to be made in order to carry out the intentions of Congress with reference to the same, under the superintendence of Captain Joshua Barney, of the United States corps of Topographical Engineers, from whose report and estimate it appears that the sum of twenty thousand and forty-one dollars and forty-five cents is necessary to perfect and consumate said improvement. The Legislative Assembly therefore respectfully ask your honorable bodies to make an additional appropriation of seventeen thousand three hundred and sixteen dollars and two cents, to be paid to and expended by the agent to be appointed by the Legislative Assembly, to superintend said improvement; which sum, together with the aforesaid sum of two thousand seven hundred twenty-five dollars and forty-three cents, arising from the sale of said section of land, will complete said improvement. Your memorialists will not enlarge upon the importance of said improvement to the interests of the Territory, and the great and rapidly increasing commerce of the Upper Mississippi, but simply remark that the Potosi landing is the point from which nearly the whole of the vast quantity of lead is shipped from our Territory,and that the products of the Upper Mississippi lead mines during the past year, exceeded sixty million pounds, and is con tinually increasing. Your memorialists will further remark, that the appropriation already made, will be entirely useless for the purpose of effecting said improvement without an additional one sufficient to complete it. They therefore repeat their request that Congress will at its present session make the appropriation herein asked for; and will ever pray.

APPROVED January 29, 1846.