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 memorialists 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 con struction 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 L. T. Rice the sum therein named, 14 to money, to Alonzo Higley the sum therein named 15 24 30 30 31 31 35 ib. ib. 36 Healy a certain sum of money, to D. E. Wood the sum therein named, Clerks to give vouchers, Contingent Fund, 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, 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, 55 ib. ib. 56 ib. 62 62 63 85 85 86 88 88 88 APPROPRIATING to Barstow and Hatch the sum therein named, to Ole Torgeson a certain sum of money therein named, to County of Waukesha the sum therein named, to Charles Clement the sum of money therein named, to Thomas Bullen, the sum of money therein named, to Alexander Mitchell, a certain sum of money, to Volney French, the sum therein named, 89 100 100 105 111 112 133 132 133 133 153 153 153 Amount appropriated, to Benton & Garfield, the sum therein named, to J. Kip Anderson, the sum of money therein named, to Demming Fitch, the sum therein named, money to pay the per-diem of members, and the salaries of officers of the Legislature, Speaker of the Assembly per diem, President of Senate per diem, Members of the Legislature per diem, Chief Clerk of Senate for services, Chief Clerk of Assembly for services, Sergeant at Arms of Assembly for services, to Carmen & Ladd the sum therein named, to N. W. Dean the sum therein named, to Lafayette Kellogg the sum of money therein named, a certain sum of money to pay t the Postage of the present session of the Legislature, Appropriation for postage, Proviso, to William Doughty the principal and interest on five bonds issued by the Territory of Wisconsin, Payment for Bonds, Money to pay the contingent expenses of the State Superin- Money for the purpose therein mentioned, ib. 345 346 ་ 4846 Sum appropriated, Sum appropriated, to Secretary of State for Postage, to persons therein named," To Darwin Clark the sum therein named, Sum appropriated, to Jerome R. Bingham the sum therein named, ib. 890 ib. ib. 892 ib. 394 Sum appropriated, Sum appropriated, Sum appropriated, to different persons therein named the sum of money down to each person separately, Names and sums appropriated, to Ira Gates a sum therein named, to Moritz Schoeffler the sum therein named, Sum appropriated, APRROPRIATING to King & Fuller a certain sum of money, Sum appropriated, to E. D. Masters the sum therein named, to Jackson Richardson or legal representatives, the sum therein ib. 890 ib. 391 ib. 391 ib. 392 ib. ib. ossib. |