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MEMORIAL TO CONGRESS FOR AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE ERECTION OF A TERRITORIAL PRISON.

To the Honorable, the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States, in Congress Assembled.

Your memorialists, the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah, would respectfully suggest to your honorable body, the necessity of a suitable building for a Territorial Prison in this Territory. In doing this, we would remind your honorable body, though our locality is quite remote from the exercise of Judicial authority in other states or territories, still we are not beyond the pale of fre-' quent and multiplied crimes and offenses which demand the retribution of imprisonment. The expense of building a safe prison, sufficiently large to meet the liabilities of convicted criminals in this Territory, is greater than a distant observer might readily apprehend.

This more than ordinary expense arises both from the extraordinary cost of labor and materials, and also from the multiplication of criminals thrown into the Territory by a transient and wayfaring population, as well as our own. The early erection of a substantial prison it is believed would not only tend to prevent crime, but also to reform the offenders and put them in the way of self support. The infancy of the Territory renders the erection of such a prison, at present, without the aid of Congress, too great a work for the finances of your memorialists.

Your memorialists therefore respectfully pray your honorable body, to appropriate the sum of sixty thousand dollars for the speedy erection of a Territorial Prison for Utah Territory; and your memorialists, as in duty bound, will ever pray. Approved Jan. 30, 1852.

MEMORIAL TO CONGRESS TO ESTABLISH A SEMI-MONTHLY MAIL FROM GREAT SALT LAKE CITY TO SAN DIEGO.

To the Honorable, the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States in Congress Assembled.

The Governor and Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah, respectfully memorialize your honorable body for the following purpose, viz:

Whereas, the locality of Utah Territory is such, as to render it inaccessible to the mail from Missouri during four months in the year, previous to the present winter; and also, for a period of six months in the year, it is inaccessible to the mail from Sacramento and Oregon

by way of Fort Hall, which are the only available mail routes from this Territory to the United States now in use; and,

Whereas, we are thereby excluded from intercourse with the United States and other nations, during a considerable portion of the year, which is very prejudicial to the acquisition of timely intelligence from abroad by us as members of a great political compact; and,

Whereas, natural facilities do exist for establishing a mail route from Great Salt Lake City to San Diego, or some other eligible position on the coast of the Pacific near that place; which route can be traversed without any serious obstacles, during every month in the year; and ample supplies of the most nutritious grasses are at all seasons available for the sustenance of animals; and,

Whereas, cities and settlements are already formed on this latter route at the distance of two hundred and seventy-five miles, and other settlements are prospectively in preparation to be formed, still further in the same line of communication, to Williams' Ranche, sixty miles north-easterly of San Diego; Therefore,

We, your memorialists, do humbly pray Congress to establish a semi-monthly mail route from Great Salt Lake City to San Diego, and make appropriations suitable to effect the same. To this subject the early attention of Congress is most respectfully solicited; and your memorialists, as in duty bound, will ever pray. Approved March 6, 1852,

MEMORIAL TO CONGRESS FOR AN APPROPRIATION TO PAY THE CODE COMMISSIONERS.

To the Honorable, the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States in Congress Assembled.

The Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah, beg leave to memorialize your honorable body for the following purpose, viz: Whereas, an early publication of a suitable code of laws for the Territory of Utah is much to be desired; and,

Whereas, the short term of forty days only, allowed for our legislative session, is insufficient to draft, arrange and enact said code by the slow formalities of legislation; therefore your memorialists have appointed three commissioners to form and draft the same, subject to the approval or rejection of the legislature when in session; and

Whereas, the expense of the said commissioners in getting up such a code of laws for public use, though but a small item of disbursement from the Parent Treasury of a great and opulent nation, is

nevertheless of some magnitude among the multiplied provisions of an infant Territory, struggling under many burthens, both rare and peculiar.

Therefore your memorialists respectfully beg Congress to consider the utility of such a code of laws to this new and flourishing Territory, and the necessity of timely aid in securing this much desired object, by appropriating the sum of four thousand dollars to this pur

pose.

And your memorialists, as in duty bound, will ever pray.
Approved Jan. 31, 1852.

MEMORIAL TO CONGRESS FOR AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A TERRITORIAL ROAD.

To the Honorable, the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States in Congress assembled.

The Governor and Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah, do hereby humbly, and respectfully memorialize Congress upon a subject of great interest, not only to the inhabitants of the Territory but to the traveling citizens of the United States, who annually pass through the country in great numbers, on the overland route, between the States and California. The subject to which we humbly solicit your attention, relates to a Territorial road.

Your memorialists beg leave to state, that the difficulties attending the northern routes across the Sierra Nevada to California, are very great, arising chiefly from the more hostile conduct of the Indians, in that direction, and from the mountain snows which effectually blockade the path of the traveler for several months in the year; and which expose both men and animals to innumerable hardships, if not to death itself. To avoid these difficulties and hardships, a more southern route has been explored, where the climate is more congenial, and where grass, in luxuriant abundance can be obtained during the whole year. Many companies have already passed over this route, which extends through the principal chain of the settlements of this country in a south south-westerly direction.

It is believed by your memorialists, that the location and construction of a Territorial road, beginning at some convenient point in the northern settlements of the Territory, and extending in a southerly direction through Fillmore City, the seat of government; thence to the extreme settlements near the southern boundary of the Ter

ritory, would be of incalculable benefit to the country, and greatly add to the comfort and convenience of emigrants, and other travelers as they pass through the rough and mountainous portion of the continent.

It is also believed by your memorialists, that the small sum of sixty thousand dollars, would be sufficient to locate and construct said road through the whole length of the Territory from north to south. Your memorialists, therefore humbly and most respectfully petition Congress to appropropriate the aforesaid sum, for the purpose herein specified; and as in duty bound, your memorialists will ever pray. Approved March 6, 1852.

MEMORIAL TO CONGRESS FOR CALLING A CONVENTION TO FORM A STATE GOVERNMENT.

To the Honorable, the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States in Congress assembled.

Your memorialist the Territory of Utah, respectfully represents that,

Whereas, her location is far removed from any other inhabited portion of the great American Union, surrounded by extensive, arid, and trackless deserts, and Heaven-spired mountains, capped with snows of a thousand winters, intervening between her and the national capitol, and denying all intercourse therewith, except a few months per annum, together with hordes of native savages on every hand, that are continually annoying the traveler and the mail; and any communication that can be made, is liable to be delayed or destroyed by them at any time, insomuch that the officers of the General Government cannot pass to their Territorial posts without jeopardizing their property and lives; and,

Whereas, on account of the non-intercourse before suggested, the Territory has mostly been without a Supreme Bench, two judicial Judges and Secretary, since September 1850, and from the same causes, is likely to continue destitute of national officers for a long time yet to come, together with the uncertainty of those offices being supplied when once filled, on account of death, by sickness, casualties, Indian depredations, absence, &c., and the length of time it will take the government to renew the appointments; and.

Whereas, your memorialist in her unparalleled prosperity, has nearly doubled her permanent inhabitants, since the last census,

and will probably treble the whole during the present season; leaving her little, if any, behind the younger sisters of the Union in point of numbers at the time of their espousals by the Union;

Therefore, to avoid, or in a great measure, circumscribe the above difficulties, and to advance the glorious principles of true Republicanism, or Government by the people, as the surest and most permanant basis of true liberty, your memorialist respectfully solicits your honorable body for the passage of an act authorizing her inhabitants to form a constitution and State Government preparatory to taking her place beside her elder sisters in the great Federal Union; and the early attention of Congress is earnestly solicited to this important subject, for which your memorialist will ever pray. Approved Feb. 28, 1852.

MEMORIAL TO CONGRESS FOR AN APPROPRIATION TO DEFRAY THE EXPENSES OF THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT OF DESERET.

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

The Governor and Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah, beg leave to memorialize your honorable body, that,

Whereas, the Provisional government for the State of Deseret, (now Utah Territory,) was formed in the winter of 1849, and continued at considerable expense, up to the organization of the Territorial government, on the arrival of the officers appointed by Congress to this Territory; and,

Whereas, no appropriation by Congress has been made to meet the expense of the provisional government previous to December 1850; and,

Whereas, the necessity of such a provisional government at this early period of the settlement of this Great Basin, was manifest and indisputably urgent, both on account of the rapid settlement of these mountain valleys, and of the visitation of a numerous and promiscuous crowd of strangers passing to the gold mines, and returning by way of Salt Lake; and also on account of our exposure to Indian depredations in the very dawn of our earliest settlement, and of the great difficulty of rendering the soil of these valleys productive, owing to the fact, that the climate is exceedingly dry, and the insects very destructive, causing the first year's efforts at rendering it fruitful for the support of the infant colony prominently unavail

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