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78 and wagons; that the whites are settling up the country, and necessarily diminishing their means of subsistence, and increasing the dangers of a collision with them; that the late Superintendent of Indian affairs of the Territory, Honorable Charles D. Poston, in view of their scattered and destitute condition, selected and caused to be laid off, on the east bank and bottom of the Colorado River, a reservation ample enough for the accommodation and support of all the above-named tribes; that an irrigating canal can be constructed at an expense of a small amount (the Indians performing the labor), that will render highly productive a large tract of land that will yield an abundance for their support, and afford a large surplus to be disposed of for their education and improvement; that when placed upon said reservation they can, under judicious management, be made not only self sustaining, but to produce largely for the market; that, to enable those who may be placed over them or have charge of them to open said canal, to remove them upon said reservation and sustain them until they can, by their own labor, provide enough for their subsistence, your memorialists respectfully ask of your honorable body an appropriation of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; that to secure the attention and favorable consideration of the subject and matters of this memorial by the Congress of the United States, be it

Resolved, by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Arizona, that our delegate to Congress, the Honorable Charles D. Poston, be requested to use all honorable means to bring the subject before Congress; and be it further

Resolved, That his Excellency the Governor of the Territory be requested to forward this memorial, together with such other information touching the subject as he may have in his possession, to the Honorable Charles D. Poston. November 7, 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 depredations of the hostile Apaches are now the only barrier to a speedy settlement of this Territory. The working of mines of unequalled value, the occupancy of farming and pastoral lands of excellent quality, and the development of all the resources of the Territory, depend upon the subjugation of the barbarous foe so long a terror of the settler within our borders. It were vain to solicit capital or emigration until the power of the Apache is broken. Recent campaigns against him, waged by civil and military expeditions, have been attended with considerable success; but enough has not been done, and your memorialists respectfully request the aid of government in prosecuting a war until the Apache shall be forced, as the Navajo has been, to go upon a reservation.

To this end, an appropriation of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars is asked at your hands, it being understood that such portion, if any, of the fund as may not be used in arming and sustaining companies of rangers in