JOINT RESOLUTION AND MEMORIAL

OF THE COUNCIL AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF COLORADO TER

RITORY.

To the President of the United States:

WHEREAS, In the counties of Park, Lake, and Summit, there are very numerous and rich mining lodes; and

WHEREAS, In accordance with an act of Congress, passed in 1866, in reference to mines and mineral lodes, said lodes have to be entered in a United States land office; and

WHEREAS, Said counties of Lake, Park, and Summit, are distant from Denver, the present location of the land office, from one hundred to two hundred miles; and several months in the year, it being almost impossible, on account of deep snows and inclement weather, (there being heavy mountain divides to cross) to reach said land office, that it makes it an expensive and grievous burden on the large and increasing population of said counties to go to said land office to enter said lands;

Therefore, Your memorialists, the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Colorado, would respectfully ask your Honorable Body that a land office be established at Fairplay, Park County, Colorado Territory, it being a central point for the above named counties.

Resolved by the Council and House of Representatives of Colorado Territory:

That His Excellency, the Governor of Colorado Territory, be requested and instructed to forward a copy of the foregoing memorial to the President of the Senate, and Speaker of the House of Representatives in Congress assembled,, and to our territorial Delegate in Congress.

JOINT MEMORIAL

To His Excellency, the President of the United States:

Your memorialists, the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Colorado, would respectfully represent, that the establishment of a land district in what is known as Gregory Mining District, of Colorado, and the location of a land office at Central City, Gilpin County, would greatly promote the interests of the people of Gilpin, Boulder, Jefferson, Clear Creek, and Summit counties; that said counties contain a population of ten thousand persons, whose occupation is that of mining, and di

rectly interested in the establishment of a land office at said city, for the entry of mining claims. Within a circuit of fifteen miles there are over one hundred quartz mills and smelting works, costing from twenty to two hundred and fifty thousand dollars each; that in one county, that of Gilpin alone, instruments of conveyances were recorded, upon which one hundred thousand dollars worth of revenue stamps were canceled. In evidence of these facts, and others not necessary to mention, and in view of the expense, delay, and injustice done the inhabitants of those counties, by compelling them to travel so great a distance to Denver, the only land office in the territory, we, your memorialists, beg leave to urge the object of this memorial, and in duty bound will ever pray.

Resolved, That copies of this memorial be forwarded to His Excellency, the President of the United States, and our Delegate to the Congress of the United States at Washington City, D. C.

Approved January 11th, A. D. 1867.

JOINT MEMORIAL AND RESOLUTION

RELATIVE TO THE REMOVAL OF THE UTE INDIANS.

To the Secretary of the Interior:

Your memorialists, the Council and House of Representatives of Colorado Territory would most respectfully represent, that the citizens of a very important part of the territory of Colorado are constantly subjected to danger to their persons, and to great losses of property by Indians of the different bands of the Ute tribe, who are constantly passing to and fro among the settlements; that the presence of these Indians is always annoying and frequently dangerous; and that the growth and prosperity of those sections of country within the range of that tribe are greatly retarded by the insecurity to life and property, which results from their being permitted to roam at will through the country. Your memorialists would further represent that a great part of the difficulty and annoyance experienced at the hands of these Indians, results from the fact that different bands of these Indians, all belonging to the Ute tribe, are under different agencies established in remote parts of the country, making it necessary for them in their intercourse with each other, to pass through the settled portion of the territory, your memorialists would therefore most respectfully recommend that the Indians of the Moguache and Tabaguache bands of the Ute

tribe, now belonging to different agencies, be united under the charge of one agent, and removed to the country not included in the treaty with the Tabaguaches, approved December 14th, 1864, and located at some suitable point on the Uncompagre river, or in that section of country, and outside the settled part of the territory; and that a military post be established at a point on the Saguache river, between the Reservation of the said Indians and the settlements of the territory.

Resolved, That the Governor be requested to transmit a copy of the foregoing memorial to the Secretary of the Interior, and one to our Delegate in Congress, and that the latter be respectfully requested to use his utmost endeavors to secure the objects expressed in the foregoing memorial.

Approved January 10th, A. D. 1867.