MEMORIAL

To the Honorable the Senators and Representatives of the United States in Congress assembled:

GENTLEMEN:—

We, your memorialists, the Governor and Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah, respectfully represent, that it is usual for Congress to make grants of land to the Territories and new States for various purposes; and considering that the inhabitants of this Territory labor under as many or more inconveniences, hardships and difficulties, incident to the first settlement of all new countries, than have been incurred by the first settlement of any portion of the public domain; and firmly believing that Utah Territory possesses as little and perhaps less value than any other part of the broad acres now or hereafter to be at the disposal of the General Government.

We therefore petition your honorable body to grant unto the corporations thereof the lands upon which are located cities holding charters from the Governor and Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah, according to the surveys and plots of said cities, and to instruct the United States Surveyor-General for said Territory to survey and plot the same in accordance with their present surveys, and return them as reserved and appropriated as herein confidentially solicited. Approved Jan. 17, 1856.

INDEX

ACTS, RESOLUTIONS AND MEMORIALS OF THE LEGISLATIVE
ASSEMBLY BY THEIR TITLES.

Appropriation for educational purposes; and defining certain duties of the
Chancelor and Regents of the University of the State of
Deseret

Counties, defining boundaries of

Shambip, creating and defining boundaries of
Greasewood, St. Mary's and Humboldt, relating to
Convention, providing for holding, with a view to the admission of Utah
into the Union as a State

Courts of the U. S., defining the judicial districts in the Territory of Utah
assigning the U. S. judges for Utah in the several districts
of the U. S., specifying the times of holding, in the several districts
record and papers, concerning furnishing certified copies of

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Deseret Iron Works, in relation to the

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Enumeration of the inhabitants of the Territory of Utah

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Ferries- -across Green river, granting to Isaac Bullock and Lewis Robison
the right to erect and control

on Bear river and bridge on Malad, granting to Brigham Young,
sen., and Joseph Young, sen., the right to establish and control 17

Herd Ground-in Lone Rock valley, and for other purposes, granting to Or-
son Pratt, Ormus E. Bates, Edwin D. Wolley, Levi E. Riter,
Vincent Shurtleffe, and Enoch Reese, for a

and ranch unto Brigham Young and Thomas Rhoades

In Cache valley, to Brigham Young, Trustee in Trust for the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

in Ogden valley to James G. Browning, Erastus Bingham, sen.,
James Brown, sen., Thomas Dunn and Lorin Farr
Fremont's Island in Great Salt Lake, to Phineas H. Young,
Albert P. Rockwood, and Jesse Hobson

Rush valley, unto Brigham Young, Wilford Woodruff, Luke
Johnson, James W. Cummings, Samuel Bennion, William
A. Hickman, Jesse C. Little and Claudius V. Spencer
district of Santaquin, heretofore known as Summit creek, right
controling, to Benjamin F. Johnson and Isaac Morley

Herd Ground-in_Juab county, to Elias Smith, Joseph Cain, Samuel W.

Richards, and those whom they may associate with them

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at the south end of Weber valley, unto Thomas J. Thurston, Jedediah M. Grant and George W. Thurston

In Cedar and Juab counties, unto Franklin D. Richards, Silas
Richards, Isaac Morley, James C. Snow, Aaron Johnson,
Lorenzo H. Hatch and Leonard E. Harrington

in Lone Rock valley, unto Ezra T. Benson, William H. Hooper,
Thomas S. Williams, Gilbert Webb and David Candland

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at north end of Weber valley, unto John Stoker, William Smith, John W. Hess and Abiah Wardsworth

in Juab valley, unto Jacob G. Bigler, Charies H. Bryan, George W. Bradley, Israel Hoyt and William Cazier

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in Cache county, unto Heber C. Kimball and John D. Parker

to Lorenzo Snow, Franklin D. Richards, Phinehas H. Young,
Daniel Spencer, Eli H. Pierce, Charles W. Hubbard and
Jonathan Browning

unto William W. Phelps and Hugh McKinney
unto Frederick Kesler

in Sanpete county, unto the San Pete Coal Company

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the Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company, amending, confirming and legalizing an ordinance

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Laws and Journals of the present session, relating to the publication and distribution of

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Marshals and attorneys, to amend an act in relation to
Memorial to Congress for $200,000 to construct a road from Bridger's Pass

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via G. S. L. City and Carson county to California for the right of way for a telegraph line from Missouri river, via G. S. L. City and Carson county to California for a daily mail from Independence, Missouri, via G. S. L. City and Carson county to Sacramento City, California for $11,318 for determining certain boundaries of Utah

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for a further appropriation of $50,000 to build the State house
for appropriation of the lands to the various corporations

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Prescribing the term of certain offices
Penitentiary, concerning the further completion of

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Surveyor_general's office, to amend an ordinance creating a
Spanish Fork river in Utah county; granting to Aaron Johnson, William
Miller, John Berry and their associates the right of water
from

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University of the State of Deseret, granting and confirming unto the, certain land claims therein mentioned

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in relation to the election of the Chancelor and Regents and treasurer of the