to the advantage, not only of ship owners, but to producers and consumers, as it will cheapen transportation as much as it increa ses the shipping ability, which will be five-twelfths of present means. Your honorable body will observe, that what your memorialist call the valley of the lakes, embraces almost the entire wheat growing section of this country, and a respectable portion of the corn. pork and beef productions, the transportation of which would be essentially cheapened by the use of the channel which would ennure to the same extent to the producer or consumer, and tend greatly to encourage and increase this species of trade; but especially would the wheat producer be benefitted by the constant enjoyment of a foreign market. With the use of the St. Law. rence, wheat from the lakes can successfully compete in the English market with the Bhek sea. Cleveland, Ohio, is more than a thousand miles nearer Liverpool than Odessa, the principal wheat mart on the Black sea, and even Chicago, Illinois, is nearer, and Illinois and Wisconsin wheat may go to Liverpool and sell against Black sea wheat. Freighting via. the St. Lawrence can be done as cheap from Ilinois to Liverpool, as from Odessa.Hitherto and hereafter, under present embarrassments, the American wheat grower must patiently wait the exhaustion of the Black sea surplus, before he can enter the English market, and simply because an extravagant canal toll, freight and commissions, lie between the grower and the market. Open the channel, so that the same vessel that loads her cargo at Chicago, Milwaukee, Detroit or Cleveland, can proceed without breaking bulk. to Liverpool, and no wheat growing country in the world can drive lake wheat out of the English market, as your memorialist fully believe. The advantages of this navigation to this valley are altogether too numerous to present in a memorial like this, and your memorialist will content themselves by saying that in the opinion of this legislature, no public measure could be desired that would so invigorate business, give confidence and energy to both agriculture and commerce, and enhance the value of property and labor, and increase the productions of the country, as the one herein sug gested. Your memorialist, therefore, ask your honorable body, at the earlist practicable period, to take measures to procure the right of navigating the river St. Lawrence to the shipping of these lakes. MOSES M. STRONG, Speaker of the Assembly, SAMUEL W. BEALL, Lt. Governor and President of the Senate. Approved, February 8, 1850. NELSON DEWEY. A memorial to Congress asking their early attention to the subject of granting Chap. 17. bounty lands to the officers and soldiers of the war of 1812. To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States in Compress as mblod. The senate and assembly of the state of Wisconsin most respectfully solicit the passage of a law at your present session, granting bounty lauds to the officers and solbers who faithfoly rendered essential service to the country during the war with Great Britain in the year A. D. 1812, which we deem only justice to so worthy a portion of our fellow citizens. MOSES M. STRONG, Seaker of the Assembly. SAMUEL W. BEALL, Lt. Governor and President of the Senate. Approved February 8, 1850. NELSON DEWEY. A memorial to the Congress of the United States, in relation to the formation of a Western Judicial District of the Circuit Court of the United States, Chap. 18. in the State of Wisconsin. The memorial of the Legislature of the State of Wisconsin respectfully represents : That the daily increasing population of the state of Wisconsin, and the consequent augmentation of productive labor, commercial business, trade and political intercourse of the whole state, has rendered the establishing of a Western Judicial District of the United States Circuit Court, necessary to the exigencies and cemands of the people. That the location of the District Court of the United States for the State of Wisconsin, being at Milwaukee, on the extreme eastern part of the state, and more than two hundred miles fem the Mississippi, on the extreme western part of the state, renders the attendance of parties, jurors and witnesses, at such court, coming from the western portion of the district, in a degree burtheusome, very expensive, and at times and in instances, oppressive. We, therefore, respectfully ask your Honorable bodies that a law may be passed authorizing the erection of a Western Judicial District of the Circuit Court of the United States for the state of Wisconsin, to be composed of such selection of counties as by a line as nearly central in the state as possible, as may be deemed expedient. MOSES M. STRONG, Speaker of the Assembly, SAMUEL W. BEALL, Lt. Governor, and President of the Senate. Approved, February 9, 1850. NELSON DEWEY. STATE OF WISCONSIN. SECRETARY'S OFFICE, 10, 1850.} Madison, April 10, 1850. I hereby certify that the acts, resolutions and memorials contained in this pamphlet have been compared with the originals deposited in this office, and that they appear to have been correctly printed. L. & IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF. I have hereunto affix. ed the seal of the State of Wisconsin the day and year aforesaid. WM. A. BARSTOW, Secretary of State INDEX. A. ACADEMY-Act to incorporate at East Troy, AMENDMENTS TO REVISED STATUTES-To chapter, "of wills of real and personal property," To repeal chapter 29, relative to 67 31 35 71 the sale of intoxicating drinks, 109 To chapter 16, title 6, relative to To amend chapter 126, section To amend chapter 14, section 77, 111 112 112 113 147 sections, 183 To chapter 125, section 8, con cerning writs of Mandamus, 201 To chapter 155, section 12, 203 AMENDMENTS To local acts, &c., to act incorporating the village of She boygan, To act incorporating Wisconsin Phalanx, To charter of Madison and Beloit rail road co., 8 23 32 42 AMENDMENTS To re-establish act relating to road from Burlington to Delavan, To charter of village of Madison, To charter of Madison and Oconomewoc plank road co., To charter of Milwaukee and Beaver Dam plank road co., 50 53 61 65 74 103 107 113 To charter granted to N. II. Strong and others, to main- 123 To repeal certain sections of charter of the village of 125 To amend act authorizing the construction of a bridge 141 To charter of Neenah and Manitowoc plank road co., 158 170 To charter of Madison and Beloit rail road co., 175 To act dividing the county of Racine and erecting Keno- 175 To act relative to assessment and taxation of personal 214 To charter of Merchants Mutual Insurance co., To act relative to improvement of Fox and Wisconsin rivers, ANNEXATION-Part of Brown co. to Manitowoc, To Atwood & Buck for newspapers, Brigham, J. R., fees as clerk supreme court, Brown, J. A., newspapers, &c., 219 222, 226 138 65 195 182 7 69 102 148 166, 182 |