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CHAPTER 103.

MEMORIAL OF THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF THE TERRITORY OF DAKOTA, FOR A MAIL ROUTE FROM ELK POINT TO SIOUX FALLS CITY.

To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States in Congress assembled:

Your memorialists, the legislative assembly of the Territory of Dakota, would most respectfully represent, that the mail facilities afforded to the people of the Big Sioux valley are entirely insufficient to meet their wants; that the commercial and social interest of the people in that portion of the territory demand the establishment of a mail route, with weekly service on the same, from Elk point, via Brule creek, Calliope, Iowa, and Commerce city, to Sioux Falls city, Dakota Territory.

Approved April 21, 1862.

W. JAYNE, Governor.

MISCELLANEOUS.

CHAPTER 104.

[MEMORIAL] TO THE HONORABLE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR, FOR A PORTION OF THE FUND APPROPRIATED BY CONGRESS TO ASSIST EMIGRANTS TO THE PACIFIC.

The memorial of the legislative assembly of the Territory of Dakota respectfully represents:

That parties are now being formed in the state of Minnesota for the purpose of organizing an expedition across the continent to the recent gold discoveries in Washington Terri-
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