JOINT RESOLUTIONS AND MEMORIALS.

MEMORIAL AND JOINT RESOLUTION

Asking for the organization of the territory of Jefferson. 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 Nebraska, would most respectfully represent to your honorable body that the people residing in the western portion of the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, commonly known as the territory of Jefferson, have through their delegate to this assembly expressed a desire to obtain a separate and distinct territorial organization, and your memorialists believe that the great distance intervening between the capital and the extreme western portion of this territory renders it impracticable to organize counties therein, and that a territorial organization is necessary to protect the lives and property of the people of that remote region.

And your memorialists further represent that the gold mines_of that region, are located in a portion of the territories of Kansas, Nebraska, Utah and New Mexico, which renders it expensive to the general government, and inconvenient and unsatisfactory to the inhabitants thereof to be represented in the legislatures of their respective territories.

Believing that the best interests of this portion of the territory of the United States and of a now numerous, prosperous and wealthy community depend upon the action of your honorable body; therefore your memorialists pray that your honorable body organize the proposed territory of Jefferson at an early day.

Resolved, That a copy ofthis memorial be transmitted to the delegate from this territory in congress, and that he be requested to present the same to that honorable body.

Approved December 29th, 1860.

MEMORIAL AND JOINT RESOLUTION

Asking Congress to establish a tri-weekly mail route from Plattsmouth, in Cass county, Nebraska territory, to Fort Kearny, in said territory.

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 Nebras ka, would respectfully represent that the interests of a large portion of this territory would be greatly advanced by the establishing of a triweekly mail route and letting the service of the same at an early day.

This mail route, if established, would pass through a district of country unsurpassed by any other in those peculiar natural advantages which are known to many as belonging to the great Platte valley, which makes it susceptible of being rendered one of the most desirable, populous and important farming districts west of the Missouri river.

Your memorialists would further represent, that we now have a daily mail from Ottumwa to Plattsmouth, without having any mail connection with the mail routes already established from Fort Kearny, in Nebraska territory to Denver city, in Jefferson territory; hence the citizens of the above named locality are left wholly destitute of a direct communication with the numerous inhabitants of the Rocky mountains, gold and silver mines, having to resort to a circuitous route for all their mail facilities. Your memorialists would further represent that Plattsmouth is the county seat of Cass county, and at the terminus of the Burlington and and Missouri river rail road, and would afford a short and cheap route for the transportation of government mails. Your memorialists further believe, that upon principles of justice, there having been mail routes and service established at points on the Missouri river, both north and south of Plattsmouth to Fort Kearny, and there having been no estab lishment of any mail route and thus far for Plattsmouth and that portion of the territory situated immediately on the south side, and up the great Platte river, that that portion of the citizens of Nebraska are entitled to a favorable response to the prayers of their petition; and as in duty bound your memorialists will ever pray, &c.

Resolved, That a copy of this memorial and joint resolution be sent to the delegate in Washington, and that he is hereby requested to use his influence to effect the speedy passage of a special act in accordance with the prayer of this memorial

Approved December 31st, 1860.

MEMORIAL AND JOINT RESOLUTION

Relative to certain mail routes.

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

Your memorialists, the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Nebraska, would respectfully represent that a daily mail from Ottumwa, in Iowa, the present terminus of the Burlington and Missouri river rail road, to Nebraska city, in Nebraska territory, on the west bank of the Missouri river, is greatly demanded by the public interests, and would add much to the business facilities and convenience of a large portion of said state and territory.

They therefore respectfully pray that a mail route may be established between those two points, and daily mail service ordered thereon. Your memorialists would further represent that the said Nebraska city is located due east from Fort Kearny and the Platte river, one hundred and sixty-eight miles, and that the business interests of the people of the said city and of an extensive region east of it, in connection with the gold region of the Rocky mountains, suffer serious detriment from the want of direct mail connections with that region; they therefore pray that a daily or tri-weekly mail may be established between the said points; and as in duty bound will ever pray, &c.

Resolved, That the secretary of the territory be, and is hereby requested to forward a copy of the foregoing memorial to our delegate in congress, and request him to use his influence to obtain favorable action upon the same.

Approved December 31st, 1860.

JOINT RESOLUTION AND MEMORIAL

For a hospital at or near Fort Kearney.

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

Your memoralists, the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Nebraska, concurring most heartily and unqualifiedly in the humane recommendation of his excellency the governor, relative to a hospital for emigrants, do hereby adopt the following language of his recent message as 66 an immediate and earnest memorial to congress:" "The travel to and from the mines, during the past season, has been, as you are well aware, immense. The incoming year will show a large and material increase. The vast emigration has been attended with considerable sickness and suffering, and in many instances death has ensued from the lack of accommodations, nursing and care. The hospital attached to Fort Kearney is perhaps the only place on the route, where those overtaken by sickness have any opportunity of being nursed and furnished with medical attendance. I have received the

gratifying intelligence that the officers of that post, including those of the medical staff, have done everything in their power to relieve the sick, and mitigate their sufferings; their means are necessarily limited, and the accommodations small. I believe it to be the duty, as it is clearly within the power of congress, to establish, at once, a commodious hospital for emigrants at Fort Kearney, on some plan, similar perhaps, to that of the marine hospitals on the western waters. Nearly every state in the confederacy is directly interested in this beneficent necessity, for the citizens of nearly every state are found in the great trains of emigrants passing and repassing between the shores of the Missouri and the gold fields of the west.

I recommend the matter to your special notice, and trust that you will make it the subject of an immediate and earnest memorial to congress."

Be it resolved by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Nebraska, That our delegate in congress be, and is hereby requested to use his best efforts to procure the object indicated in the above memorial.

Resolved, That the secretary of the territory be, and he is hereby requested, to forward an attested copy of the foregoing memorial and resolution to our delegate, to be presented to the favorable consideration of congress.

Approved December 31st, 1860.

MEMORIAL AND JOINT RESOLUTION

Relative to a mail route from Nemaha city to Blue springs in Gage county.

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

Your memorialists, the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Nebraska, would respectfully represent, that the early estab lishment of a mail route from Nemaha city in Nemaha county, via Monterey and Franklin in the county of Richardson, Table Rock and Pawnee city in Pawnee county to Blue Springs in Gage county, would greatly subserve the interests and add to the comforts and convenience of a large district of country, densely populated, which is now entirely destitute of mail facilities; your memorialists would respectfully request your favorable and prompt consideration of the claims of the proposed mail route, and as in duty bound, would ever pray, &c.

Resolved, That the secretary of the territory be requested to forward a copy of the above memorial and a joint resolution to our delegate in congress, who is hereby requested to use his influence to secure the establishment of the mail route proposed above and to have the same placed thereon at as early a day as practicable. Approved January 1st, 1861.