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76  between the two republics as aforesaid; that afterwards, by the Gadsden treaty of 1854, the southern portion of the Territory of Arizona was acquired from the Republic of Mexico, attached to New Mexico by an act of Congress of the United States, and the boundary run and fixed by a joint commission of the two republics at an initial point on the Colorado, twenty miles below the junction of the River Gila with the Colorado; by this means the western boundary of Arizona runs from the thirty-seventh degree of latitude the whole length of the California boundary on the south, and beyond the line of that State on the Colorado River; that said small tract of land lies just below the junction of the Gila River with the Colorado: that it is an important commercial point, and is the commercial landing-place and business point for the Territory of Arizona on the lower Colorado; that it is opposite Fort Yuma, and remote from any civil government organized in California; that there are no police and civil regulations there; that it is essential and important to Arizona to have said tract of land annexed to its territory, for the purpose of forming a landing-place and a commercial town; that it is of little importance to the State of California and of vast consequence to Arizona to possess it; that if annexed to Arizona the benefit of civil government would be immediately extended over it from Arizona City, which lies adjoining it on contiguous territory, separated from it by an imaginary line, while the Colorado flows between the said tract of land and the other portions of the territory of the State of California.

Wherefore, your memorialists pray your honorable body to pass an act by which the said tract of territory of the State of California, lying south of Fort Yuma and the Colorado River, and between the Colorado River and the line of Arizona, be annexed to said Territory of Arizona, providing that the State of California by an act of her State Legislature will relinquish all her right over said tract of land to the said Territory of Arizona.

Resolved, That our delegate in Congress is hereby requested to use all honorable means in his power to secure the passage of such act. That his Excellency the Governor of the Territory of Arizona is hereby requested to transmit a copy of this Memorial to our delegate in Congress; also a copy to the Governor of the State of California, with the request to forward such other information in his possession, in order that it may be laid before the Legislature of the State of California. November 3, 1864.

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

Your memorialists, the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Arizona, respectfully represent, that whereas, the organic act of the Territory, drawn up on the basis of the other Territories of the United States, provides that the pay per diem of the members of the first and subsequent Legislative Assemblies shall be three dollars during their attendance at the session thereof, and the officers of said Legislative Assemblies, together