as required by section 3481 of the Compiled Laws, but in order to properly complete and furnish the said building in a suitable manner and in harmony with its character, so far as work has progressed, a further appropriation of Sixty thousand dollars is necessary; and that this sum will provide a larger, handsomer, more convenient, and in every respect, more desirable building for the purpose, than the former structure.

This great saving of one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars as compared with the old building being effected by the careful and economical management of the architects, who personally supervised the work, the utilization of much old material and convict labor, and brick from the penitentiary.

In accordance with this belief, we have passed an Act authorizing the issue of Sixty Thousand Dollars in bonds for the purpose indicated, the proceeds to be expended under the direction of the capitol rebuilding board, as were the proceeds of the former issue of bonds for that purpose, a copy of which Act is hereby transmitted.

That under the present Law of Congress (Springer Act of 1886) the Territory is prohibited from issuing any bonds for the purpose named, except with the special consent or approval of your body, which, in view of the circumstances and the great need of a capitol building for the different officers of the Territory and the meetings of this body, we most respectfully and urgently pray you to grant at the present session of your body; and we earnestly urge your immediate attention thereto for the reason that if the present session of Congress lapses without such approval, work upon our building must cease for lack of funds, to our great detriment and actual loss in money.

And your Memorialist will as in duty bound, ever pray.

And be it resolved that the Secretary of the Territory, be, and he is hereby directed to send a copy of this memorial to the President of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and to Honorable Harvey B. Fergusson our Delegate in Congress.

JOINT MEMORIAL IV.

CONCERNING REFRAINING FROM THE DESIGNATING OF FOREST RESERVES BY THE GENERAL GOVERNMENT, AND THE LOCATION OF LANDS DONATED TO THE TERRITORY BY CONGRESS. C. J. M. 3. Approved March 8, 1899.

Asking the President of the United States and the Honorable Secretary of the Interior and the Honorable Commissioner of the General Land Office to refrain from the selection, designation or reservation of any public domain within the Territory of New

Mexico into forest reserves until subsequent to such time as the Territory of New Mexico may be able to select and designate the public lands donated to the Territory by the Act approved June 21, 1898.

Wheras [Whereas] by act of Congress approved June 21, 1898, section [s] 16 and 36, in every township, or lands in lieu thereof, were donated to the Territory of New Mexico for school purposes, and in addition thereto large grants of lands were made to said Territory for the suport of public institutions as in said Act provided; and

Whereas, under the provisions of said Act the Territory of New Mexico was extended the right to select and designate the lands so donated under certain rules and regulations to be provided by the Secretary of the Interior and to hold, dispose [of] and control the same for the purposes of said Act under law to be provided by said Territory; and

Whereas, the Legislature of said Territory now in session, is engaged in the consideration of proposed legislation for the purpose of effecting the intent of said Act; and

Whereas, the greater portion of the Pucblic [Public] Domain in the Territory of New Mexico is either mineral or arid in character, and the lands of greatest value to be selected under said Act are limited in extent and largely confined to the mountain regions of the Territory and such as are being created into Forest Reserves in the west under Executive proclamation; and

Whereas, since the approval of said Act of Congress so donating said lands above mentioned, the Interior Department of the United States has, through its Forest Reserve Superintendents and other officials, proposed to create extensive Forest Reserves in the Territory of New Mexico, and it is reported has designated an extencive [extensive] tract of ground within the Mogollon Mountains in the counties of Grant and Socorro in said Territory, and is proposing to designate other large tracts of ground and segregate the same from the public domain; and

Whereas, the designation and segragation [segregation] of such tracts of land into Forest Reserves will largely force the Territory of New Mexico to select inferior character of lands under the said Act of June 21, 1898, which will be non-productive and of little value, and thus defeat the intentions of the said Act of June 21, 1898; Now therefore, Be it resolved by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of New Mexico that his Excellency the President of the United States and the Honorable Secretary of the Interior and the Honorable Commissioner of the General Land Office are earnestly requested to refrain from the selection and designation and segregation of any public lands in the Territory of New Mexico into Forest Reserves pending the selection and designation by

the Territory of New Mexico of the lands so donated to said Territory under said Act of June 21, 1898,

Be it further resolved that the Governor of the Territory of New Mexico, be, and he is hereby requested to transmit to His Excellency, the President of the United States and the Honorably [Honorable] Secretary of the Interior and the Honorable Commissioner of the General Land Office a certified copy of this joint-memorial as soon as the same is adopted by this Legislative Assembly.

JOINT MEMORIAL V.

IN REFERENCE TO FEDERAL AID FOR BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTING RESERVOIRS AND CANALS IN THE TERRITORY OF NEW MEXICO.

C. J. M. 4. Approved March 9, 1899.

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

Your memorialists of the 33rd Legislative Assembly of the Territory of New Mexico now in session at Santa Fe most respectfully represents, that

Whereas, about thirty million acres of land in this Territory, all of which is government land and which is entirely unproductive because of its arid condition, and because of such condition is not available for the use of settlers or homesteaders under any of the existing laws and can be made useful and available by the reclamation from its arid condition, and

Whereas, there are millions [of] cubic feet of water wasted annually through the channels of the natural water courses of the Territory by reason of rain fall and melting snow in the mountains; and

Whereas, if said water was stored by the construction of reservoirs upon or near the streams through which it wastes, and the water applied at the proper season upon the adjacent arid lands, the million acres of unproductive lands could be brought to a high degree of culture, furnishing homes for millions that are to-day without them, increasing largely the commerce from the west to the east, between the states and between the United States and foreign countries, thereby forcing the building of great lines of transportation, opening up and making inhabitable and subject to development large unexplored and undeloped [undeveloped] mineral sections of the Territory and making New Mexico one of the greatest agricultural states of the Union and possible to sustain as large a farming population as in all the New England states; and

Whereas, the construction of these reservoirs and canals is beyond

the power or possibility of the capital of any single individual, or the aggregate means of a number of individuals, rendering it absolutely necessary for the government of the United States to spread its established policy of federal aid to internal improvement over "Arid America". The propositions are too large and require to many millions of dollars for individual effort; and

Whereas, the Senate Committee on Commerce has just heard. arguments in favor of the construction of the comprehensive system of reservoirs in the "Arid West" as a part of the national policy and is urged by the National Irrigation Congress and Senators from Montana, Wyoming and Colorado, asking and urging the appropriation of millions of money for the purposes of this memorial, realizing as they do the importance, not only to the west, but to the Union, and to the world, the liberal extension and application of a policy so long established by the Federal Government, being advised as they are, and as we believe, that the arid states of the west under this system of internal improvement would not only furnish homes, occupations and employment for a much larger population than we have to-day in all the states of the Union, opening up markets and marvelous opportunities for investment and for the home seeker, and at the same time absolutely destroy the necessity of the seventyfive or eighty millions annually appropriated for harbors and rivers and expended largely in caring for the flood waters of the Missouri and Mississippi; therefor[e]

Be it resolved, by the Legislative Assembly as the representatives of the people of the Territory of New Mexico that we ask for and urge upon the Congress of the United States that they appropriate for the purposes set forth in this memorial the sum of five millions of dollars to be expended under and by direction of the Interior Department for the construction of storeage reservoirs and the survey and construction of canals from said reservoirs for the purpose of storing and distributing the waters of the Territory over and upon the arid lands thereof and under such regulations and rules as may hereafter be determined and established by the proper department of the Federal Government.

Be it further resolved, that the Secretary of the Territory be, and hereby is, directed to make and transmit four copies of this memorial to our Delegate in Congress, one for himself and three to be transmitted by him to the Chairman of the proper committees in the Senate and House of Representatives, and to Hon. Stephen B. Elkins, respectively,

JOINT MEMORIAL VI.

REQUESTING THE GENERAL GOVERNMENT TO ESTABLISH AND MAINTAIN A TROUT HATCHERY AT TROUT SPRINGS. C. J. M. 5 Approved March 16, 1899.

Memorial to the Congress of the United States.

Whereas, there is no government trout hatchery in all the region lying south of Colorado, in the Territories of Arizona and New Mexico, and Whereas the streams in said Territory, and especially in the Territory of New Mexico, are particularly well adapted to trout raising, and the replenishing of the streams in said Territories is important as a source of food supply, and

Whereas the springs and stream known as Trout Springs, lying in the mountains about five miles north west from the Hot Springs, near Las Vegas New Mexico, and being within two miles of a railroad station, is a very favorable location for a government trout hatchery, the said stream having an average winter temperature of 58 degrees, and all the surroundings are such that a hatchery could there be maintained successfully at slight expense, and the same is of great importance to the people of the Territories of New Mexico and Arizona:

Therefore, be it

Resolved by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of New Mexico, the Council and House both concurring therein, that the Congress of the United States be and hereby is respectfully requested to make the necessary provisions and to establish and maintain a trout hatchery at said place.

Resolved that this memorial be transmitted by the officers of the Assembly to the Honorable Pedro Perea, delegate in Congress, for the Territory of New Mexico, with the request that he present the same to Congress and secure the necessary legislation to establish and maintain said trout hatchery.

JOINT MEMORIAL VII.

RECOMMENDING TO THE FAVORABLE CONSIDERATION OF THE PRESIDENT IN MAKING APPOINTMENTS CERTAIN OF THE VOLUNTEERS FROM NEW MEXICO IN THE LATE U. S. VOLUNTEER CAVALRY.

H. J. M. 1. Approved March 16, 1899.

To the

Hon. William MciKinley, [McKinley]

President of the United States.

Your memorialists, members of the 33rd Legislative Assembly of the Territory of New Mexico, respectfully memorialize you to