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Rh with all the Territorial officers, are allowed a compensation in like proportion; and whereas, on account of the great distance from the manufacturing and producing sections whence the inhabitants of this Territory obtain nearly all their necessary articles of consumption, such as provisions clothing, etc., the cost of such articles is nearly three times, and in some instances ten times the cost of similar commodities in the more eastern parts of the United States Government; and whereas, it is therefore manifestly unjust that such a compensation should be laid at so low a rate; therefore, your memorialists would respectfully ask your honorable body so to amend the organic act as to allow eight dollars per diem for each member and officer in attendance on such first and subsequent Legislative Assemblies, and an adequate addition to the salaries of the Governor Secretary, and Superintendent of Indian affairs of the Territory, of not more than fifteen hundred dollars be allowed; and an addition to the salaries of each of the three Territorial Judges of not more than fifteen hundred dollars be allowed; and that the salary of the United States District-Attorney be increased to two thousand dollars; and that the salary of the United States Marshal be increased to fifteen hundred dollars; and that the pay of the United States District Clerks be increased to fifteen dollars per day; and that the pay of the United States Grand Jurors be increased to eight dollars per day.

Be it resolved, by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Arizona, That our delegate in Congress be and he hereby is requested to use all honorable means to bring this subject to the favorable consideration of Congress, and obtain a redress of grievances; and be it further resolved, that the Secretary of the Territory be requested to transmit a copy of the foregoing resolutions and memorial to our delegate in Congress. November 5, 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 the four tribes of Indians known as the Yavapais, Hualapais, Mojaves, and Yumas, numbering about ten thousand, are now scattered over an extent of country from the Gila River on the south to the northern boundary of the Territory, and from the Colorado River on the west to the Verde River on the east; that these Indians are now roaming at large over the vast territory above described, gaining a precarious subsistence from the small patches of land along the Colorado River, which they cultivate, and from fishing and hunting; that when the seasons are unfavorable to their little farming interests, or the Colorado River does not overflow to irrigate and enrich their fields, they are reduced to a starving condition, and compelled, by necessity, to make raids upon the stock and property of whites, and not unfrequently do they ambush the traveller and miner, and waylay and stampede the stock of trains and plunder their packs