That the improvement of the navigation of Fox and Wisconsin rivers is, and ever has been, treated by the general government as a work of national importance, to carry on which, Congress has heretofore granted to the State of Wisconsin a certain quantity of land on each bank of the Fox river. Your memorialists also represent: That the improvement of the navigation of the Upper Wisconsin, at least so far as to admit the unobstructed descent of lumber, rafts, flatboats, &c., is a work having a very natural and intimate connection with the one already spoken of; the lumber trade of the Upper Wisconsin, alone, is a matter of very great importance. The amount of pine lumber manufactured annually on the Upper Wisconsin exceeds fifty millions of feet, and every year increas ing; the yalue of that vast product is diminished so much as two dollars per thousand feet in consequence of the expense incurred in running it over the various rapids on that river, above Fort Winnebago; your memorialists therefore pray your hon orable body to make to the State of Wisconsin a grant of land of the odd numbered sections, for the distance of three miles, upon each bank of the Wisconsin river, from the Winnebago Portage to Beaulieux Rapids, in trust, that the State shall sell such lands and apply so much of their proceeds as may be necessary to the improvement of the navigation of the Upper Wisconsin river. FREDERICK W. HORN, Speaker of the Assembly. DUNCAN C. REED, President pro tempore of the Senate. Approved March 1st, 1851. NELSON DEWEY. Memorial to Cogress asking for a mail route from the vil age of West Bend to the town of Wayne in the county of Washington The Memorial of the Legislature of Wisconsin respectfully represents: That the people of the town of Wayne and a large portion of the surrounding country, in the county of Washington, are destitute of mail facilities, and that this portion of the country is being rapidly settled by industrious and enterprising citizens, and would therefore pray your honorable body to establish a weekly mail route from the village of West Bend to the centre of the town of Wayne in said county, a distance of nine or ten miles. FREDERICK W. HORN, Speaker of the Assembly. DUNCAN C. REED, President pro tempore of the Senate. Approved March 13th, 1851. NELSON DEWEY. Chap. 11 Chap. 12 Chap. 13 Memorial to Congress in relation to a mail route. To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States. The memorial of the Legislature of the State of Wisconsin respectfully represents : That the interest and convenience of the citizens of a densely populated and large portion of country are concerned in the establishment of a tri-weekly mail, from Janesville, through Fulton, Cooksville, Dunkirk, Bass Lake, Dunn, and Lake View to Madison. Your memorialists, therefore, respectfully ask that the aforesaid mail route may be established at the earliest practicable period. FREDERICK W. HORN, Speaker of the Assembly. DUNCAN C. REED, President pro tempore of the Senate. Approved, March 13th, 1851. NELSON DEWEY. Memorial to Congress in relation to a mail route. To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States. The memorial of the Legislature of the State of Wisconsin respectfully represents. That the interest and convenience of the citizens of a densely populated and large portion of country are concerned in the establishment of a tri-weekly mail from Milwaukee, via Waukesha, Waterville, Golden Lake, Crowders, Jefferson, Oakland, and Cambridge to Madison. Your memorialists therefore respectfully ask that the aforesaid mail route may be established at the earliest practicable period. FREDERICK W. HORN, Speaker of the Assembly. DUNCAN C. REED, President pro tempore of the Senate. Approved March 13th, 1851. NELSON DEWEY. A Memorial to Congress for a graut of land to aid in the construction of a Railroad Chap. 14 from the Winnebago to the mouth of the St. Croix river, on the Mississippi river. To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States: The memorial of the legislature of the State of Wisconsin respectfully represent: That at its present session, an act has been passed and approved by his Excellancy the Governor of the State of Wisconsin incorporating the Fort Winnebago, Baraboo Valley, and Minnesota Railroad Company, which said company propose constructing a railroad connecting the Fox River Improvement at Fort Winnebago with the Mississippi river, at or near the mouth of the St. Croix river. Your memorialists further represent, that a railroad connecting the Fox River Improvement at Fort Winnebago with the Mississippi river, at or near the mouth of the St. Croix river would greatly enhance the national importance and advantages of the Fox River Improvement, for which important work the people of the west are indebted to the liberality evinced in former years by your Honorable body. Your memorialists would further represent, that the construction of the proposed road would open the nearest and most direct avenue of transportation from the Lakes to the Minnesota country, the paramount interests of which valuable section of our country, together with the interests of the section of country through which the proposed road would pass, are eminently agricultural; which interests for their prosperity or depression will be chiefly dependant upon the facilities afforded for the transportation of their products to the markets of the East; aside from the immediate and apparent benefits accruing from opening avenues of transportation to facilitate the exchange of the vast productions of agricultural industry of the West, for the commodities which will be supplied by commercial enterprise, activity and capital in the East; the construction and completion of the proposed road would invite to cultivation and rapid improvement large sections of country now comparatively unoccupied, and which for years must otherwise remain unoccu pied, though they embrace lands unsurpassed anywhere in richness and productiveness of soil. In view of the additional national importance which the construction and completion of the proposed road would give to the Fox River Improvement, which when fully completed will be a measure, not alone peculiarly benefitting the State of Wisconsin, but advancing the interests of our common country; in view of the incalculable benefits which the construction of this railroad would be to the Territory of Minnesota, whose interests claim the fostering care of your Honorable bodies; in view of the great advantages which the construction of this road would be to the vast region of country through which it would pass, which only awaits the means of transportation to market for its resources to be fully developed, its lands to be densely populated and cultivated; in view of the political advantages attained, by connecting by means of said roads the extremities of our widely spread republic, thus binding our population with links stronger than iron; promoting our intercourse, facilitating our commerce, and developing all the sources of our genius and wealth; your me morialists perceive motives for your honorable bodies to grant such means as may be necessary to aid in the construction and completion of a project embracing such comprehensive interests. The liberality evinced by your Honorable bodies in granting lands to aid in the construction and completion of great public works throughout the Union, encourage your memorialists to hope that the attention of your Honorable bodies will be direct ed to this interesting portion of our country, that all constitu tional means will be adopted to develop its immense resources, that the power of the General Government may be brought to co-operate with individual enterprise in constructing so great and important a work, the cost of which is too considerable to be borne alone by the citizens of this newly settled portion of our country. Your memorialists, therefore, ask your Honora ble bodies to grant to the State of Wisconsin, in aid of the construction of the above proposed railroad, every alternate section, for six sections in width, which may be owned by the United States, on each side of said road, when the line or route of said road is definitely fixed. FREDERICK W. HORN, Speaker of the Assembly, DUNCAN C. REED, President pro tempore of the Senate, Approved March 15, 1851. NELSON DEWEY. to money, to Alonzo Higley the sum therein named 15 24 30 Emory Healy a certain sum of money, to D. E. Wood the sum therein named, to F. P. Catlin the sum therein named, APPROPRIATING the several sums therein named, Clerks to give vouchers, to David T. Dickson the sum therein named, to the County of Racine the sum therein named, APPROPRIATION for the payment of Canal Bonds Nos. 55 and 56, Conditions, for the payment of Canal Bond No. 54, APPROPRIATING to Rev. Wesley Lattin the sum therein named, to G. H. Slaughter the sum therein named, to J. T. Lesley, former Sheriff of Brown County, the therein named, to Ira B. Brunson the sum therein named, to Fratney & Herzberg the sum therein named, 30 31 31 35 ib. ib. 36 55 ib. ib. 56 ib. 62 62 63 85 85 86 88 88 88 89 89 |