Leave of absence to stock. No. XVI.-Assembly Concurrent Resolution. [Passed February 16, 1877.] Resolved, by the Assembly, the Senate concurring, That P. B. P. 3. Com Comstock, County Clerk of Washoe County, Nevada, be, and he is hereby, granted leave of absence from this State for the period of four months, at such time as he may select during his present term of office; provided, that he leave a competent deputy to perform the duties of his office as required by law. Leave of absence to No. XVII.-Assembly Concurrent Resolution. [Passed February 16, 1877.] Resolved, by the Assembly, the Senate concurring, That A. J. A. J.Shep- Sheppard, Treasurer of Humboldt County, be, and is hereby, pard. granted leave of absence from the State for the period of six months, at such time as he may select during his term of office. Describes the reservation. Indians are few in number and do not use reservation. No. XVIII.-Joint Memorial to Congress in relation to the Walker [Passed February 16, 1877.] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Assembly, do memorialize the Congress of the United States, as follows: Your memorialists, the people of the State of Nevada, most respectfully represent as follows: That the above named reservation, situated in the County of Esmeralda, State of Nevada, embraces territory over fifty-five miles in length, and from ten to twenty miles in width, and practically includes the whole of Walker Lake and Walker River, from the mouth, a distance of about thirty miles, with the land bordering on either side thereof. That the land included in said reservation is chiefly agricultural and grazing land of excellent quality and of great value to settlers if they shall be permitted to locate upon and improve the same. That the Indians, for whose use and benefit said reservation was established, are now only about three hundred (300) in number, but few of whom remain on the reservation or manifest any disposition to engage in any industrial pursuit, many of them roaming at large over the State, while some, unwilling to work for themselves on the reservation, hire out to the farmers and reserva paid for ments. others of the surrounding country. That the Indians who Pyramid actually reside upon, and make said reservation their home, tion sufflmight readily be removed to and kept upon the reservation at clent. Pyramid Lake, in the County of Washoe, State of Nevada, where they could be in all respects as well and more cheaply kept than at the Walker River Reservation, and enjoy better and greater advantages. That in case of the abandonment Indians of said Walker River Reservation, as such, the Indians who should be have made improvements thereon ought to be paid for them, improveand permitted to use the means thus obtained in making similar improvements on the reservation to which removed. That from the fact of the comparative scarcity of agricultural and grazing land in the State of Nevada, the contiguity of said reservation to Mason's Valley, a righ agricultural district, and to several mining camps of apparent richness and growing importance, from the fact that a great amount of travel by white people necessarily passes over said reservation; and from the fact that the benefits arising from the keeping of the same open are not commensurate with the expense thereof; therefore, vation be Your memorialists most respectfully pray and urgently that asks that said reservation be vacated at an early day, and the land thereof the reser subjected to preëmption and homestead by bona fide occupants vacated. and settlers thereon, and as in duty bound your memorialists will ever pray. No. XIX.-Memorial and Joint Resolution relative to public lands in the State of Nevada. [Passed February 16, 1877.] To the honorable, the Senate and House of Representatives in a law Nevada be Your memorialist, the Legislature of the State of Nevada, Asks that respectfully represent to your honorable bodies that portions granting of the sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections of the public lands in fands to said State are mountainous and unfit for cultivation, other passed by portions are of mineral and saline character, and a large Congress. majority of said sections are unsurveyed; and, whereas, your memorialist, being anxious to place the school system of our young State on a footing with other States, and therefore being desirous of realizing, at as early a day as possible, the proceeds of said lands for common school purposes, and as the area yet unsold in said sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections would be, when surveyed, three million nine hundred thousand acres, and the State of Nevada having sold only sixty-five thousand acres of said grant, therefore your memorialist respectfully requests that the Act of Congress donating said sixteenth and thirtysixth sections to the State of Nevada be repealed, so far as the unsold portion of said grant is concerned, and that Congress pass an Act granting to the State of Nevada, in lieu thereof, one million five hundred thousand acres of the public land, to Governor to forward copy. be given to the State of Nevada for the support of common schools, to be selected as other grants heretofore made to the State of Nevada; therefore, be it Resolved, by the Senate, the Assembly concurring, That our Senators in Congress be, and are hereby instructed, and our Representative in Congress be, and hereby is requested, to use all proper means to procure the legislation above asked; be it further Resolved, That his Excellency, the Governor, be requested to forward a copy of this memorial to each of our Senators and our Representative in Congress. Concerning the printing committee No. XX.-Assembly Concurrent Resolution. [Passed February 17, 1877.] Resolved, by the Assembly, the Senate concurring, That one thousand copies of the report of the committee appointed to of certain inspect and report upon the condition of the insane of this State be printed in pamphlet form for distribution-five hundred copies for the Assembly, two hundred and fifty copies for the Senate, and two hundred and fifty copies for the State officers. report. Leave of absence to George Nicholl. No. XXI.-Assembly Concurrent Resolution. [Passed February 26, 1877.] Resolved, by the Assembly, the Senate concurring, That leave of absence from the State be granted to George Nicholl, Clerk of Nye County, for the term of three months, at any time during the years eighteen hundred and seventy-seven and eighteen hundred and seventy-eight; provided, the said George Nicholl leave a suitable and efficient deputy to discharge the duties as such Clerk during his absence. No. XXII.-Assembly Joint Resolution, relative to mail service between Eureka and Belmont, in this State. [Passed February 27, 1877.] Preamble. WHEREAS, The present mail service between Eureka, Eureka County, and Tybo and Belmont, in Nye County, in this State, are totally inadequate to supply the growing importance and necessities of the people of that section; therefore, be it for service. Resolved, by the Assembly, the Senate concurring, That our Asking Senators be instructed, and our Representative in Congress increased requested, to use their influence with the Post Office Depart- mail ment to have the mail on route No. —, from Eureka, via Hot Creek and Tybo, to Belmont, increased to six times a week. Resolved, That the Governor be requested to forward a certi- Governor fied copy of the foregoing resolution to the Postmaster General and to each of our Senators, and to our Representative in Congress. to for ward copy No. XXIII.-Concurrent Resolution in relation to an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Nevada. [Passed February 27, 1877.] an amend. Resolved, by the Assembly, the Senate concurring, That Arti- Proposes cle Eleven (11) of the Constitution of the State of Nevada be ment to amended by adding to said Article Eleven (11) section ten the Con(10) thereto, which shall read as follows: Section Ten. No public funds, of any kind or character whatever, State, county, or municipal, shall be used for sectarian purposes. stitution. No. XXIV.-Assembly Concurrent Resolution. [Passed February 27, 1877.] absence to Resolved, by the Assembly, the Senate concurring, That leave Leave of of absence be and is hereby granted to Richard Ryland, Treas- Richard urer of Eureka County, for a period of six months, at any time Ryland. during the years eighteen hundred and seventy seven and eighteen hundred and seventy-eight; provided, that said Treasurer leave a suitable and efficient deputy to discharge the duties of this office during his said absence. No. XXV.-Joint Resolution relating to the protection of fish in the [Passed March 1, 1877.] WHEREAS, The protection of fish in the lakes and streams of Preamble. our country is recognized as a proper subject of legislation; Asks for a law preserving fish. Secretary forward and, whereas, the statutes of the State of California contain no adequate provision whereby the fish in the Truckee River and its branches are protected; that by reason of the practice of lumbermen in running the sawdust of their mills into these streams, their entire destruction seems probable at no distant day; therefore, be it Resolved, by the Senate and Assembly of the State of Nevada, That the mutual interests of the people will be subserved by the enactment of laws tending to the protection of fish in the above named streams, and that we earnestly urge upon the State of California, through their Legislature, that they do by legislative enactment restrain all persons from running sawdust into said streams. Resolved, That the Secretary of State is requested to forward of State to to the Governor of the State of California a copy of these resocopy. lutions, with the request that he lay the same before the Legislature of that State at its next session. No. XXVI.-Joint Memorial and Resolution relative to establishing a mail route from Dayton to Belleville in this State. [Passed March 1, 1877.] Preamble. WHEREAS, The mail facilities from Dayton, the county seat of Lyon County, State of Nevada, to Mason Valley, Esmeralda County, same State, are inadequate to accommodate the growing settlements to the south and east (there being no mail route running from Dayton except to the westward, and in that direction only four miles within the county lines); therefore, be it Asks for the establishment route. Resolved, That our Senators and Representative in Congress be, and are hereby, requested to urge upon the Post Office of a mail Department the importance of establishing a semi-weekly mail route from Dayton, Lyon County, Nevada, via Fort Churchill, Wabusha, and Mason Valley, to Belleville, Esmeralda County, in said State, and to discontinue the weekly mail route now existing between Wadsworth and Mason Valley, the same being useless and not meeting the requirements of the people, as the same passes through a desert region of country, requiring no mail service. Governor to for ward copy Resolved, That his Excellency, the Governor, be requested to forward to the Post Office Department at Washington City, and to each of our Senators and Representative in Congress, a copy of the foregoing resolution. |