No. 32. A MEMORIAL to Congress for a Mail Route from Green Bay, Brown county, to Washington Harbor in Door county. The Memorial of the Legislature of the State of Wisconsin respectfully represents; That the citizens of a large portion of country are at present in great want of a mail route from Green Bay in Brown county, to Washington Harbor in Door county. Your memorialists therefore respectfully ask your_honorable body to establish a weekly mail route, from Green Bay, Brown county, to Washington Harbor, in Door county, and they will ever pray, &c. Approved, April 1, 1854. No. 33. A MEMORIAL to Congress for a grant of land for the benefit of a State Lunatic, a State Blind, and State Deaf and Dumb Asylum. 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 rapid increase of the population of the state of Wisconsin has rendered it necessary in an early stage of its existence as a State, to provide institutions of humanity and charity; that the State of Wisconsin has as far as she has been able, manifested a praiseworthy and laudable zeal in responding to the calls of charity presented for its consideration; that the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind Asylums have already been commenced, and partially provided for, and an Insane Asylum is much needed in this state'; that the means necessary to endow and support these institutions, would be a heavy tax upon the citizens of the State, and that the means for that purpose cannot be raised without bearing heavily upon the tax payers. The memorial would further represent that a large portion of the domain of the State, yet belongs to the general government, and is an immediate and direct source of revenue to the same; that a grant of at least five hundred thousand acres of land to the state of Wisconsin, to aid said state in founding and supporting the several asylums before mentioned, would enable the state to releive the sufferings of many, who, without such aid must remain in a condition of deplorable misery; that Congress has heretofore granted to other and older states, aid similar to what is asked for the state of Wisconsin. Your memorialists would therefore respectfully ask that a grant of land be made to the state of Wisconsin, for the benefit of the Lunatic Asylum, the Deaf and Dumb, and the Blind Asylum. Approved, April 1, 1854. No. 34. MEMORIAL to the Congress of the United States for the creation of a Western Judicial District of the United States, in the State of Wisconsin. The Memorial of the Legislature of the State of Wisconsin respectfully represents; That the daily increasing population of the state of Wisconsin, and the wants and commercial business of the state has rendered the establishment of a Western Judicial District necessary to the exigencies and demands of the people. That the location of the District Court of the United States for the State of Wisconsin being at Milwaukee on the extreme part of the state, renders the attendance of parties, jurors and witnesses at such court coming from the western portion of the state in a degree burdensome and very expensive, and at times and in many instances oppressive. We therefore respectfully ask your honorable bodies that a law may be passed, authorizing the creation of a Western Judicial District for the State of Wisconsin, to be composed of such selection of counties as by a line as nearly central in the state as possible, as may be deemed expedient. Approved, April 3, 1854. No. 35. MEMORIAL to the Post Master General for increase of service on Mail Route No. 13,773, and Route No. 13,777. To the Honorable, the Post Master General of the United States. The Memorial of the Legislature of Wisconsin respect fully represents; That the interest and convenience of a large number of the inhabitants of the counties of Bad Ax, La Crosse, andJackson, in the state of Wisconsin, would be greatly enhanced by the establishment of a tri-weekly mail, on mail route No. 13,773, and 13,777 between Prairie du Chein and Black River Falls, via Bad Ax, Viroqua, Springville, Coon Prairie, LaCrosse, Onalaska, Lewis' Mills, Douglass' Mills. Your memorialists are satisfied that from the rapid settlement of the country through which said mail routes pass, their settlement by people from all portions of our common country, as well as foreign countries, the unparalleled increase of towns and villages, and the necessary augmentation of business and correspondence require a tri-weekly mail route, the weekly route being entirely inadequate to the wants of the people, and the business of the country. Your memorialists therefore respectfully ask that the aforesaid increase of service on said route may be established at the earliest practicable period. The Governor of this state is requested to forward a copy of this memorial to the Hon. Henry Dodge and the Hon. Ben C. Eastman, Senator and Representative of this State, at Washington, as soon as practicable. Approved, March 28, 1854, [NOTE.-In preparing these acts for publication, where a superfluous word has been found in the enrolled acts, it has been printed in the text in italics, and enclosed in parentheses, (thus.) Where a word or clause has been found necessary to sustain the context, or where one word has been obviously mistaken for another, the word or clause supposed to be proper has been supplied, but in brackets, [thus ;] adopting a plan heretofore adopted in publishing the laws, for the sake of uniformity.] Errata.-Page 59, Chap. 49, Sec. 2, line 4, omit the word "unless," before the words "under the hand," &c. Page 131, Chap. 89, Sec. 1, line 8, for "so," read to. Same page, Sec. 2, line 11 and 12, for "appointment," read apportion ment. STATE OF WISCONSIN, SS. I, ALEXANDER T. GRAY, Secretary of State of said State, do hereby certify, that the laws published in this book have been compared with the original enrolled acts deposited in this office, and that they appear to be correctly printed. L. S. In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Great Seal of said State, at the Capitol in Madison, this 30th day of June 1854. ALEXANDER T. GRAY, Secretary of State. |