further sum of seventeen thousand three hundred aud fifteen dollars will be amply sufficient to complete said improvement.

Your memorialists deem it unnecessary to enlarge upon the importance of said improvement to the interests of the western portion of this state, and the great and rapidly increasing commerce of the upper Mississippi, but would simply remark that the Potosi landing is the point from which a large amount of the products of the Wisconsin lead mines is shipped, and to which heavy shipments of merchandize are made during the season of navigation.

Your memorialists will further represent that the expenditure already made of the proceeds of the appropriation above referred to, was barely sufficient to commence the work, which will be entirely useless for the purpose of effecting said improvement unless an appropriation is made sufficient to complete the work according to the plan and specifications of the engineer.

Your memorialists therefore request that Congress will at its present session make an appropriation of the sum of seventeen thousand three hundred and fifteen dollars, for the purpose of completing said improvement. Approved, February 11, 1854.

No. 5.

MEMORIAL to Congress for a mail route from Prairie du Chien to Prairie du Sac.

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 a large portion of the counties of Crawford, Richland, and Sauk would be greatly enhanced by the establishment of a weekly mail route from Prairie du Chien in Crawford county by the way of the Wisconsin River, on the north side thereof, to Prairie du Sac in Sauk county.

Your memorialists would represent that there is no mail. on the north side of the Wisconsin River running east and west through the counties of Crawford, Richland and Prairie du Sac.

Your memorialists further state that it would be of great benefit to the people residing in that district of our State, many of whom are now destitute of mail facilities, and your memorialists are of the opinion that the establishment of the proposed mail route would be a source of revenue to the department, affording mail facilities to a portion of the State rapidly filling up with enterprising settlers.

Approved, Feb. 15, 1854.

No. 6.

MEMORIAL for mail route from Dodgeville in Iowa county, to Prairie du Sac in Sauk county.

The Memorial of the Legislature of the State of Wisconsin respectfully represents:

That the interest of a large and rapidly increasing number of citizens of Iowa and Sauk counties, require the establishment of a semi-weekly mail route from the town of Dodgeville, via Wyoming P. O. and Helena in Iowa county, and to Spring Green, Harris' Settlement, Sauk City, and to Prairie du Sac in Sauk county.

Approved, Feb. 21, 1854.

No. 7.

MEMORIAL to the Post Master General for an increase of mail service from the city of Fond du Lac to the city of Oshkosh.

The memorial of the Legislature of the State of Wis consin respectfully represents:

That the interest and convenience of the citizens of Oshkosh and the surrounding country are deeply interested in the establishment of a daily mail from the city of Fond du Lac to the city of Oshkosh in the county of Winnebago, a distance of about twenty-five miles, in the place of the present tri-weekly mail.

Your memorialists therefore respectfully ask that the aforesaid increase of mail service may be granted at the earliest practicable period.

Approved, Feb. 21, 1855.

No. 8.

MEMORIAL to the Prestdent and Congress of the United States, relative to the Chippewa Indians of Lake Superior.

To His Excellency the President of the United States, and to the Senate and House of Representatives in Congress assembled:

The Memorial of the Legislature of the State of Wis consin respectfully represents:

That the inhabitants of the counties of La Pointe and Douglass have nearly unanimously signed a petition showing to your memorialists, that the Chippewa Indians in the region of Lake Superior are a peacable, quiet,

and inoffensive people, rapidly improving in the arts and sciences that they acquire their living by hunting, fishing, manufacturing maple sugar, and agricultural pursuits that many of them have intermarried with the white inhabitants, and are becoming generally anxious to become educated and adopt the habits of the "white man."

Your memorialists would therefore pray His Excellency, the President of the United States, to rescind the orders heretofore given for the removal of said Indians, and that such orders may be given in the premises, as shall secure the payment to said Indians, of their annuities at La Pointe, in La Pointe county on Lake Superior, that being the most feasible point therefor.

Aud your memorialists also pray that the Senate and House of Representatives in Congress assembled will pass such laws as may be requisite to carry into effect such design and orders; and to encourage the permanent settlement of those Indians as shall adopt the habits of the citizens of the United States.

And your memorialists firmly believing that justice and humanity require that such action should be had in the premises, will ever pray, &c.

Approved, February 27, 1854.

No. 9.

MEMORIAL to Congress for a Mail Route from Watertown in Jefferson County, to Waupacca, in Waupacca County, and a tri-weekly mail on the same.

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 interest and convenience of a large portion of the counties of Marquette, Waushara and Waupacca are concerned in the establishment of a tri-weekly mail route from the city of Watertown, in the county of Jefferson,

by the way of Berlin in Marquette county, to Waupacca in Waupacca county, by the most direct and main traveled road.

Your memorialists would further represent that the esablishment of said mail route, and mail service thereon, will be a great convenience and accommodation to large portions of the inhabitants of Fond du Lac, Dodge, Maruette, Waushara and Waupacca counties.

Your memorialists would therefore respectfully ask that the aforesaid mail route may be established at the earliest practicable period.

roved, February 27, 1854.

No. 10.

MEMORIAL to the President and Congress of the United States, relative to certain lands not ceded by the Chippewa Indians to the General Government.

To His Excellency the President, and to the Senate and House of Representatives in Congress assembled.

The memorial of the Legislature of the State of Wisconsin respectfully represents:

That there is a tract of land about three fourths of a mile in width, from the St. Croix River to the St. Louis River, lying along the boundary line between the state of Wisconsin and territory of Minnesota, within said state of Wisconsin-the Indians' title to which has never been extinguished.

That the Chippewa Indians refuse to allow the government surveyors to complete their surveys; and also refuse to permit this state to exercise jurisdiction over said tract of land, greatly to the annoyance and injury of the citizens of this state.