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thoroughfare for transportation, that little hope can be reasonably entertained for the continuance of said route, unless the Indian title to the country be extinguished and the Indians removed therefrom.
And, finally, your memorialists believing that a treaty for the purchase of their lands can be effected on very reasonable terms, do earnestly hope that a government, ever watchful for the real interest of this new territory and the safety of the people, will use every possible means to protect and encourage the enterprising and intrepid pioneers of that portion of the territory.
For which your memorialists will ever pray.
- Approved April 26, 1862.
W. JAYNE, Governor.
MAIL ROUTES.
CHAPTER 101.
A MEMORIAL TO CONGRESS FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A MAIL ROUTE FROM MANKATO, IN BLUE EARTH COUNTY, STATE OF MINNESOTA, VIA MADELIA, SIOUX FALLS, UPPER JAMES CROSSING, YANKTON, SMUTTY BEARS' CAMP, BON HOMME, WANANRA, TUFTSVILLE (OR NESHUDA), PHILBRICK'S CROSSING (OR CHOTEAU), AND GREENWOOD, TO FORT RANDALL, IN DAKOTA TERRITORY.
To the Congress of the United States:
The legislature of the Territory of Dakota would respectfully represent, that a great inducement for immigration and settlement in a new country, is the early establishment of mail routes and postal facilities. That affording the pioneer direct and accessible mail facilities with the East, removes one of the greatest privations experienced by the early settlers, and induces others to join him in making the Western coun-