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CHAP. XCIV.] of the Territory of Dakota, That our delegate in congress be, and hereby is requested to use all honorable means to bring this subject to the favorable consideration of the proper department
 * Approved May 12, 1862.

W. JAYNE, Governor.

To the President of the United States:

Your memorialists, the legislative assembly of the Territory of Dakota, beg, most respectfully, to represent to your Excellency that military protection should be, and we pray that it may be afforded to the settlements in Eastern Dakota and Western Iowa, by the immediate establishment and occupation of a military post at Sioux Falls city, on the Big Sioux river; and your memorialists will ever pray, &c.
 * Approved April 24, 1862.

W. JAYNE, Governor.

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

Your memorialists of the legislative assembly of the territory of Dakota would respectfully represent that

Whereas, an appropriation has been made, by a late session of congress, for the construction of a United States fort in the