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CHAP. CIV.]

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.

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