DAKOTA CAVALRY. CHAPTER 95. A MEMORIAL TO THE HON. E. M. STANTON, SECRETARY OF attained by plac alry at the dis posal of the gov ernor. Your memorialists, the legislative assembly of the Terri- Objects to be tory of Dakota, would respectfully represent, that in the ing Dakota cayopinion of your memorialists, the frontier settlements of this territory need, and will need for some time to come, military protection located at different points in the settlements of the territory, to save them and their property from attacks from hostile Indians that are constantly traversing the country; and that no one thing that can be done will have so great an effect to increase settlement and open up this country, as a proper relief afforded to the settlers in this respect; and inasmuch as Fort Randall is situated at a great distance from a large part of the settlements in the territory, thereby rendering [it] of but little direct protection to the citizens; therefore, your memorialists would respectfully pray that the cavalry company raised within this territory for garrisoning Fort Randall, be ordered to coöperate with the civil authorities of the territory, to be stationed at such places as the governor may deem the necessities and wants of the people demand, and will ever pray. Approved May 12, 1862. W. JAYNE, Governor. MILITARY ROADS. Supplies for soldiers and Indians. Supplies necessarily carried by land. Difference in cost, if over good road. Open valuable lands. CHAPTER 96. A MEMORIAL OF THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF THE To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the The memorial of the legislative assembly of the Territory of Dakota respectfully represents: SECTION 1. That the transportation of supplies for the use of the military and Indian departments of government on the Upper Missouri, forms an important item of the expenditures for these departments in this territory. SECT. 2. That during the season of low-water, the supplies for these departments must be carried by land a distance of some hundred and fifty miles, over roads that have been constructed temporarily, and at great expense, and therefore as yet inconvenient, and, at certain seasons of the year, difficult to pass over. SECT. 3. That the difference in the cost of transportation of government supplies would, in a few years, repay the government for an expenditure of money in the construction of a good road for the transportation of military and Indian supplies necessary for Fort Randall and the Yankton Sioux agency. SECT. 4. That the construction of a military road would tend to open to settlement a large tract of valuable agricultural lands along the line of the road, and thus by the increased value of the government lands, contribute largely toward refunding to the national treasury any expenditure in constructAppropriation ing such road. Your memorialists would therefore most respectfully, but urgently ask your honorable bodies to make an appropriation of ten thousand dollars for the construction of a military road commencing opposite Fort Randall and asked for road between Fort Randall and Sioux city. running down on the east bank of the Missouri river, via W. JAYNE, Governor. CHAPTER 97. A MEMORIAL TO CONGRESS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Dakota : Your memorialists, the legislative assembly of the Territory of Dakota, respectfully represent: Road asked for between George That the interest of that portion of our territory being on the west side of the "Red river of the North," would be town, Minn., and Pembina, Dagreatly advanced by the construction of a military road, com- kota. mencing at a point on the west bank of the said river opposite Georgetown, in Minnesota, thence to Pembina, in this territory. Your memorialists further represent, that the government Object. has been very liberal in the construction of similar roads in Minnesota during her territorial organization, among which are the territorial roads leading west from points on the Mississippi river to points on the said river, and we respectfully represent that this is but a continuation of said roads. That said road will also run through a great portion of public lands a distance of one hundred and twenty miles, and across numerous streams, important in size, and the construction of said road will thereby tend to develop the resources of that section of our rapidly improving territory, and at the same time confer a great boon on the hardy pioneers who have already settled thereon. Your memorialists further represent that a large trade is carried on between the Red river settlements and St. Paul, Minnesota, which require large trains of carts to annually pass over this route to and from these points; and that from this date large trains, in going to and from the Appropriation asked for. Cariboo and Saskatchawan gold mines, in British America, will be compelled to travel this route. Your memorialists would further represent that there are streams, to the number of ten, that would require good bridges, and numerous smaller ones of less importance that would require bridging to insure the safety of transit for the different conveyances which pass through this section. And to aid in the construction of this road, your memorialists would respectfully urge upon your honorable body an appropriation of the sum of ten thousand dollars, and that the expenditure of this sum may be placed in charge of the War Department, to be used for the above-named purpose under the direction of said department. And in duty bound your memorialists will ever pray, &c. W. JAYNE, Governor. Minnesota state road.* Best route between Forts Ridgley and Randall. CHAPTER 98. [MEMORIAL TO ESTABLISH A ROAD FROM THE EASTERN LINE OF THE TERRITORY NEAR SIOUX FALLS TO YANKTON.] To the Congress of the United States: The legislature of the Territory of Dakota would respectfully represent: That, whereas, the state of Minnesota has, by a recent act of its legislature, established a state road from Mankato west to the line between Minnesota and the Territory of Dakota, in the vicinity of Sioux falls; and, whereas, this is the most direct route from Fort Ridgley to Fort Randall; and, whereas, there is now no travelled route between said forts, except the route by Spirit lake and Sioux city, Iowa, therefore your Appropriation memorialists would pray that an appropriation of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) be made, or such other sum as shall be deemed adequate to lay out and construct a military road from the western terminus of said state road by Sioux falls to Yankton, a distance of ninety miles, intersecting at that called for. place a road from Sioux city to Fort Randall, thereby shortening the distance from Fort Ridgley and Southern Minnesota to Fort Randall and Southern Dakota, one hundred miles. And your memorialists would further show, that all mails from Southern Minnesota would pass over the same, and that all emigration from Wisconsin and Southern Minnesota to Dakota would pass over said road instead of passing over the circuitous route now travelled by Spirit lake and Sioux city in Iowa. It is further shown, that said road would pass over a fine rolling country, free, from marsh and slough, well watered and timbered, nearly every acre of which is capable of cultivation. And your memorialist, will ever pray. Approved April 20, 1862. W. JAYNE, Governor. Mails from Minnesota. Of the country traversed. INDIAN TREATIES. CHAPTER 99. MEMORIAL AND JOINT RESOLUTION [RELATIVE TO A PRO- To the Honorable Secretary of the Interior: sion asked for. Your memorialists, the legislative assembly of the Terri-Treaty of cestory of Dakota, would respectfully represent that the interests of this territory would be greatly promoted, and its early settlement rapidly hastened, if the Indian title to the country now claimed and occupied by the Brule Sioux Indians was extinguished. needed for white Only a small fragment of the vast region embraced within Country the boundaries of Dakota, is open for settlement. These In- settlements. dians possess a belt of land extending from the Missouri to the Niobrara rivers, and lying next beyond the country ceded |