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Of an increase of compensation to the contractor for carrying the mail from Austin to Waco village, in the State of Texas.

MARCH 13, 1854.-Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, and ordered to be printed.

DEPARTMENT OF STATE,
Austin, February 23, 1854.

DEAR SIR: I have the honor to enclose copy of joint resolution for the relief of mail contractor on route No. 6,287, passed at the recent session of our legislature and required to be forwarded by the governor to our delegation in Congress.

I am, most respectfully, your obedient servant,

Hon. SAM HOUSTON.

ED. CLARK,
Secretary of State.

JOINT RESOLUTION for the relief of the contractor on route No. 6,287.

WHEREAS, the United States mail contractor on mail route No. 6,287, from Austin to Waco village, contracted to carry the mail on said line for four years from the first day of July, 1850, at which time the country through which said line passed was sparsely settled, but has since settled with such rapidity, and the mails have increased to that extent, that it has long since become, not only impracticable, but utterly impossible to carry the same on horseback, (the only kind of conveyance recognized by the department at Washington.) These facts being known, in view of remedying the evil, the legislature in September, 1850, passed a resolution requiring the contractor on said line to convey the mails in coaches, and requesting our senators and representatives in Congress to urge upon the Post Office Department the necessity of this increase of service, and that the department allow increase of pay accordingly. And whereas, the contractor on said route did put on the additional service, and is now, and has been, conveying the mail on said line in four-horse coaches, for which, in justice, the department should allow pay in proportion to the pay allowed for similar service on other lines in this State; therefore

Be it resolved by the legislature, That the governor is hereby requested to forward our senators and representatives in Congress, each, a copy of this resolution, requesting them to use their influence in Congress, or with the Post Office Department, to have an increase of pay allowed in proportion to pay allowed for similar services on other lines. And that this resolution take effect from and after its passage.

Passed February 1, 1850.

I, Ed. Clark, secretary of state of the State of Texas, hereby certify that the foregoing is a correct copy of the original joint resolution now on file in the State department.

Given under my hand and the seal of the department of state, at the [L. S.] city of Austin, this the 23d day of February, A. D. 1854.

ED. CLARK,.

Secretary of State.

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An increase of the mail service between New York, New Orleans, San Francisco, Umpqua harbor, Astoria, and the intermediate points of mail delivery, which may hereafter be established by future mail contracts, in that territory.

MARCH 16, 1854.-Referred to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads, and ordered to be printed.

JOINT RESOLUTION.

Resolved, by the legislative assembly of the Territory of Oregon, That the delegate to Congress from said Territory be, and he is hereby, requested to procure, if practicable, the passage of a law, at the present session of Congress, re-establishing additional mail service between New York, New Orleans, San Francisco, Umpqua harbor, and Astoria, and the intermediate points of mail delivery which may be established by future mail contracts in this Territory, so as to provide, between the points aforesaid, mail service, each way, four times each month.

Resolved, That, in the judgment of this assembly, the public interests will be best promoted by providing the additional mail service, twice a month, between the points aforesaid, via the Isthmus of Nicaragua, instead of the Isthmus of Panama-thus securing semi-monthly mails by both routes. And our delegate in Congress is requested to urge the adoption of the Nicaraqua route for the additional semi-monthly service aforesaid.

Resolved, That copies of these resolutions be forwarded by the president of the council to the senators and representatives of California in Congress, with the request that they co-operate with our delegate in securing the objects of the same.

Passed house of representatives, January 3, 1854.
Passed council, January 5, 1854.

Z. C. BISHOP,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.
R. WILCOX,

President of Council.

I hereby certify the foregoing to be a true copy of the original.

R. WILCOX.

1st Session.

No. 37.

RESOLUTIONS

OF THE

LEGISLATURE OF WISCONSIN,

RECOMMENDING

A reprint of D. D. Owens's report of a survey of the mineral lands in Iowa, Wisconsin, and northern Illinois.

MARCH 16, 1854.-Referred to the Committe on Printing, and ordered to be printed.

JOINT RESOLUTIONS.

Resolved, by the senate and assembly of the State of Wisconsin, That our senators in Congress be requested to procure the Senate of the United States to order a reprint of the report of D. D Owens's survey of the mineral lands in Iowa, Wisconsin, and northern Illinois, with the accompanying illustrations, in the same style as the report of a geological survey of Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota, &c., by D. D. Owen, United States geologist; published in 1852, by order of the United States Senate, by Lippencott, Grambo and Co., which report was submitted by the President of the United States to the House of Representatives June 6, 1840, and is now published in volume 4, part 2, of the executive documents of the 2d session of the 28th Congress, (Doc. No. 239.)

Resolved, That the governor of this State be requested to forward a copy of the forgoing resolutions to each of the senators of this State. FREDERICK W. HORN,

Speaker of the Assembly.

JAMES T. LEWIS,

President of the Senate.

Approved, March 8, 1854.

WM. A. BARSTOW.

STATE OF WISCONSIN, SECRETARY'S OFFICE, ss.

I, Alexander T. Gray, secretary of state of the State of Wisconsin, do hereby certify that I have compared the copy of the joint resolutions, hereto attached, with the original joint resolutions deposited in this office, and that the same is a true copy thereof.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the [L. S.] great seal of the State, at the capitol in Madison, this eighth day of March, 1854.

ALEXANDER T. GRAY,
Secretary of State.

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