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CHAP. XCVII.] running down on the east bank of the Missouri river, via Greenwood on the Yankton agency, mouth of Choteau creek, Springfield, Bon Homme, Yankton, Vermilion, and Elk point to Sioux city, Iowa. And as in duty bound your memorialists will ever pray.
 * Approved April 5, 1862.

W. JAYNE, Governor.

Your memorialists, the legislative assembly of the Territory of Dakota, respectfully represent:

That the interest of that portion of our territory being on the west side of the "Red river of the North," would be greatly advanced by the construction of a military road, commencing at a point on the west bank of the said river opposite Georgetown, in Minnesota, thence to Pembina, in this territory.

Your memorialists further represent, that the government has been very liberal in the construction of similar roads in Minnesota during her territorial organization, among which are the territorial roads leading west from points on the Mississippi river to points on the said river, and we respectfully represent that this is but a continuation of said roads.

That said road will also run through a great portion of public lands a distance of one hundred and twenty miles, and across numerous streams, important in size, and the construction of said road will thereby tend to develop the resources of that section of our rapidly improving territory, and at the same time confer a great boon on the hardy pioneers who have already settled thereon. Your memorialists further represent that a large trade is carried on between the Red river settlements and St. Paul, Minnesota, which require large trains of carts to annually pass over this route to and from these points; and that from this date large trains, in going to and from the