Wisconsin, requiring the tonnage of a larger number of steamers and vessels, demand for its maintenance and for the convenience and safety of vessels engaged therein, the construction of a harbor at the mouth of the Menomonee river, Oconto county, in the state of Wisconsin; that the yearly lumber production of the region, which naturally seeks an outlet through the Menomonee river, exceeds one hundred twenty million feet, and that there is no safe resort or harbor for the commerce of the lakes between the ports of Green Bay and Escanaba, a distance of one hundred and twenty miles; that the population of said section, and the business there carried on, is rapidly and yearly increasing, and the present conveniences of commerce are entirely inadequate to its wants.

Your memorialists, therefore, respectfully ask that a reasonable sum of money be appropriated for the purpose of constructing a harbor at the mouth of the Menomonee river for the convenience and safety of the commerce of the lakes.

The chief clerks of the senate and assembly are requested to furnish a copy of the above memorial to the president of the senate and the speaker of the house of representatives, and to each of our members of congress. Approved Febuary 8, 1868.

NUMBER 6.

MEMORIAL for additional mail service between Lone Rock in Richland county, and Ironton in Sauk county.

To the honorable the senate and house of representatives of the United States in congress assembled:

The memorial of the legislature of the state of Wisconsin respectfully represents:

That the interests of a large number of the inhabitants of the counties of Richland and Sauk, in this state, would be greatly enhanced by additional mail service on the present mail route number 13,185, making Cazenovia in Richland county, a point on said route, and that the service may be semi-weekly instead of weekly, as it now is.

Your memorialists respectfully ask that the additional service required by this memorial may be ordered at the earliest practicable period.

Approved February 8, 1868.

NUMBER 7.

MEMORIAL to congress for a mail route.

To the honorable the senate and house of representatives in congress assembled:

The memorial of the legislature of the state of Wisconsin respectfully represents:

That the interests and convenience of a large number of the inhabitants of Clark county, in the state of Wisconsin, require the establishment of a mail route from Neillsville, in the county of Clark, to Graves' Mills, in the county of Clark (via Moseley's Corners, George Huntsuer's), a distance of twenty miles.

Your memorialists would therefore respectfully ask that the aforesaid mail route may be established and that the service be put on at as early a day as practicable.

Approved February 8, 1868.

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NUMBER 8.

MEMORIAL to congress for a grant of land to aid in the improvement of Rock river.

To the senate and house of representatives of the United States:

The memorial of the legislature of the state of Wisconsin respectfully represents :

That the importance of improving Rock river, so as to connect the navigable waters of the state of Wisconsin and the great lakes with the Mississippi river and its tributaries, has already attracted the attention of the general government; that in the year of 1866, congress ordered a survey of said river to be made at the public expense; that said survey amply demonstrated the practicability of the proposed improvement, to the published report of which your memorialists respectfully ask the attention of congress.

The improvement referred to contemplates the construction

lake Winnebago, in Wisconsin, to Rock Island, in Illinois, a distance of 285 miles. It penetrates the most productive and richest agricultural and commercial sections of the west. The largest and most flourishing cities in the state are upon its line. A larger number of people are interested in its construction than in any single line of railroad ever projected in Wisconsin. Its natural aspects are fully discussed in the report of the survey of General Wilson, already referred to, so that those arguments need not be recapitulated in this appeal.

Your memorialists, therefore pray that a donation of lands may be made to the state for the benefit of this great improvement, to be disposed of in such manner and under such restrictions as the legislature of Wisconsin may direct.

The governor is hereby requested to forward a copy of this memorial to each of our senators and representatives in congress, with the request that they will use all necessary efforts to accomplish its object.

Approved February 14, 1868.

NUMBER 9.

MEMORIAL to the postmaster general for a semi-weekly mail route from the city of Green Bay to Ahnepee, in Kewaunee county, through the towns of Scott and Green Bay, in Brown county, and through the towns of Red River and Lincoln, in Kewaunee county. Also for the establishment of a postoffice in the town of Lincoln, in said Kewaunee county.

To the honorable the postmaster general of the United States: The memorial of the legislature of the state of Wisconsin represents :

That the interests and convenience of a large number of inhabitants of the counties of Brown and Kewaunee, in said state, would be greatly benefited by the establishment of a semi-weekly mail route from the city of Green Bay, in said Brown county, through the towns of Scott and Green Bay, of said county, and through the towns of Red River and Lincoln to Ahnepee, in said Kewaunee county.

Also respectfully ask the establishment of a postoffice in the town of Lincoln, in said Kewaunee county.

Your memorialists would further respectfully ask, that the said mail route and postoffice be established as aforesaid at the earliest practicable period.

Approved February 14, 1868.

NUMBER 10.

MEMORIAL to congress for an extension of time for the construction and completion of the military road from Fort Wilkins, Copper Harbor, Kewenaw county, Michigan, to Fort Howard, Green Bay, in the state of Wisconsin.

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 pursuant to an act of the legislature of this state, approved April 4th, 1864, accepting the grant of lands made by an act of the congress of the United States, to aid in the construction of a military road from Fort Wilkins, Copper Harbor, Kewenaw county, Michigan, to Fort Howard, Green Bay, in the state of Wisconsin, approved March 3d, 1863, there has been built seventy miles of said road, between Fort Howard and the Michigan state line, and that the remainder of the road between the last named points is under contract, and is being prosecuted with diligence by a responsible contractor, but that the nature of the work is such that it will be impossible to complete it within the time allowed by the act of congress of March 3d, 1863, which provides that if said road is not completed within five years the lands unsold shall revert to the United states.

Your memorialists do therefore respectfully ask, that in view of the amount already expended upon the work, and of the necessity and importance of the road, not only to the people of Michigan and Wisconsin, but to the country at large, an extension of time be granted to the said states of Wisconsin and Michigan for the completion of said road; and your memorialists do further represent, that two years additional time will in all probability be necessary to ensure the completion of the work in the manner required by congress. They do therefore pray that an act or joint resolution be passed, at an early day, extending the time for the completion of said road to the 3d of March, 1870.

NUMBER 11.

MEMORIAL to congress, in relation to the project of connecting, by navigable channels through the Fox and Wisconsin rivers, the waters of the Mississippi with the waters of lake Michigan.

To the honorable the senate and house of representatives of the United States, in congress assembled:

Memorial of the legislature of Wisconsin respectfully represents :

That the project of connecting the Mississippi river and lake Michigan, by navigable channels through the Fox and Wisconsin rivers, has heretofore received the attention of congress.

Its growing importance to the country, the northwest and the state, becomes each year more apparent; and each year, for six successive years, has induced the legislature of Wisconsin to memorialize congress.

The subject of connecting the Mississippi and the lakes, has been considered by the people, met in local, county, state and national conventions; by boards of trade; and by the legislatures and governors of states; and without exception, by resolution, memorial and message, all have united in recognizing its importance and in urging upon congress attention and action in relation thereto. The character of the undertaking is alike apparent to congress, the legislatures and the people. It is rendered necessary as a military measure, to protect, against inroad and attack, a frontier extending from the Atlantic to the Pacific; as a commercial measure, to enlarge the already inadequate outlets for an increasing commerce, thereby lifting from freights, and ultimately from the people, extortionate tariffs; and as a measure, otherwise national, to establish, out of avenues of intercourse and trade, bonds of national unity.

Whatever can be said of the national importance of connecting these waters by any channel, is equally true in reference to this channel. Nature unaided, has, by way of the Fox and Wisconsin rivers, almost effected the desired connection. Aided by a few dams and locks and altogether not to exceed five miles of canal, a channel, having in all but extraordinary stages of low water, a navigable depth of four feet for one third of the way and nearly three feet the remainder, reaching a distance of over one hundred and fifty miles, from Green Bay, upon lake Michigan, to Portage city, upon the Wisconsin, has been opened to regular commerce. Boats of light draft, in