Marshall M. J. A. Brown. To Marshall M. Strong, for two hundred and eightyeight copies of the Racine Advocate, furnished members of the Legislative Assembly, fourteen dollars and forty cents. To John A. Brown, for one hundred and sixty copies Milwaukee Courier furnished members of the Legislative Assembly, at its present session, eight dollars. L. F. Kellogg To La Fayette Kellogg, for furnishing the judiciary committee with copies of bills of exceptions in certain suits, by order of said committee, three dollars and ninety cents. Moses M. G. C. S. Vail. G. P. Dela plaine. J. & L. Ward. W. W. Wy. man. J. W. Trow. bridge. To Moses M. Strong, for assisting Mason C. Darling in the examining into the affairs of the Milwaukee and Rock River Canal Company, and the Wisconsin Marine and Fire Insurance Company, sixteen dollars. To George C. S. Vail for writing for the Legislative To J. & L. Ward, for stationery and candles furnished for the use of the Legislative Assembly at the sessions thereof, commencing March 6th, 1843, and March 28th, 1843, the sum of seyen hundred nineteen dollars and seventy-six cents, to be paid out of the appropriation made by Congress for defraying the expenses of the Legislative Assembly for the half fiscal year commencing on the first day of January, 1843, and ending on the 30th day of June, 1843: Provided, the above appropriation to J. & L. Ward, shall not be made a charge upon, or paid out of the territorial treasury. To William W. Wyman for newspapers furnished the members of the Legislative Assembly at its present session, eighty-nine dollars and ninety cents; also for newspapers furnished the Executive office, thirteen dollars and fifty cents. To J. W. Trowbridge, five dollars, for writing done for the Legislative Assembly at its present session. § 2. That the balance of the fund appropriated by Congress for the payment of the expenses of the Legislative Assembly for the current year, which may remain after deducting from such fund, the per diem and mileage of the members, the pay of officers and other incidental expenses, provided for in this act, be, and the said balance is hereby appropriated to be expended under the direction of Charles M. Baker in the purchase of books c. M. Baker. for the Library: Provided, that the first books to be purchased, shall be such volumes of Reports as may be necessary to continue and complete the sets which have been heretofore purchased, and are now belonging to the library. Returned by the Governor with objections, and re-considered and passed by the House of Representatatives, January 30th, 1844, by ayes and noes, seventeen members having voted for, and four against the bill. JOHN CATLIN, Chief Clerk. Re-considered and passed in the Council, January 30, 1844, ayes seven, noes none. BEN C. EASTMAN, Secretary. Memorials & Resolutions. A MEMORIAL to Congress for the improvement 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 sheweth : That conceiving the improvement 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 travellers as such for nearly two centuries past. Your memorialists 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, December 18, 1843. MEMORIAL to Congress for a donation of land to improve the Grant Slough. To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled: The memorial of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Wisconsin respectfully represents: That a large portion of the town of Potosi, a flourishing and rapidly growing village near the Mississippi River, is situated on section thirty-four in town three of range three west of the fourth principal meridian in the Mineral Point land district and that said section has never been reserved for sale by the United States authorities although other lands in the vicinity have been in market for several years, and that the numerous persons occupying portions of said section have no legal title to their possessions. Congress have in numerous instances when particular tracts of the public domain have been similarly situated, passed laws securing to the occupants a pre-emption right to their possessions at reasonable prices, and providing for the sale of the remainder of the tracts, and appropriating the proceeds of the land for the improvement of the town. Such was the action of Congress with reference to the towns of Galena, in Illinois, Burlington, Fort Madison, Bellevieu, Dubuque and Peru, in Iowa Territory, and Mineral Point in this Territory. Your memorialists further represent that the Mississippi River is navigable by Steam Boats for many hundred miles above Potosi, and that a large commercial business is done at Potosi which is rapidly increasing, but that between the Steam Boat landing of said town and the channel of the River is a long narrow peninsula, which in high water becomes an Island, and extends about three miles below the landing formed by the waters of Grant River which reach the bottom grounds of the Mississippi about two miles above the landing and then sluggishly continue their course paralell and near to the Mississippi until they finally unite with the channel of that river about three miles below the landing and from what is called the Grant River Slough or Boyou, and forming also the peninsula before alluded to, at or near the head of which is low ground which in high water is submerged transforming |