for a home for disabled miners, three hundred and twenty acres of said reservation and the government buildings thereon situate. Approved February 21, 1891. (H. J. M. 3.) HOUSE JOINT MEMORIAL No. 3. To the Senate and House of Representatives in Congress assembled : Your memorialists, the General Assembly of the State of Colorado, respectfully represent that: There are within the limits of the State of Colorado vast areas of arid lands, belonging to the United States, that are now practically valueless and can only be reclaimed by the application of water for irrigation: that this can only be done by the expenditure of such vast sums of money as to be beyond the reach of private enterprise; Therefore, Your memorialists would most earnestly request that your honorable body will pass an act granting to the State of Colorado all the public lands, excepting mineral lands, situate in said State for the purpose of aiding in the reclamation of irrigable lands by irrigation, upon the condition that said State will dispose of the irrigable lands to actual settlers only, in quantities of not more than one hundred and sixty acres to any one person, and that all the proceeds of the lands thus donated to the State shall be used in the construction of hydraulic works for the reclamation and irrigation of the irrigable lands. And your memorialists will ever pray. Approved March 9th, 1891. (H. J. M. 4.) HOUSE JOINT MEMORIAL No. 4. To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States, in Congress assembled: Your memorialists, the General Assembly of the State of Colorado, would most respectfully represent that: WHEREAS, The people of the State of Colorado are desirous of establishing and maintaining a home for disabled soldiers; and WHEREAS, The Fort Lyon reservation, situate in Bent county, Colorado, heretofore set apart and used for military purposes by the United States, has been abandoned and is no longer used by the general government; and WHEREAS, Said reservation offers a most eligible site for the location for said soldiers' home, Therefore, Your memorialists pray your honorable body to donate to the State of Colorado, to be used solely for a home for disabled soldiers, 640 acres of said reservation and the government buildings thereon situate. Approved March 19th, 1891. (S. J. R. 20.) SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION No. 20. Resolved, That our senators and representatives in congress are hereby requested to introduce a bill in congress, and press the same for passage, for the payment of the claims of the State, incurred and growing out of the late Ute war, so-called, in the year 1888, because of the neglect of the agents of the government to restrain the Ute Indians from leaving their reservation in the territory of Utah, to invade and ravage the State, as the State authorities and the people believed, for hostile purposes in that year. Approved April 7th, 1891. (H. C. R. 5.) HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION No. 5. Resolved, By the House of Representatives of the General Assembly of the State of Colorado, the Senate concurring: WHEREAS, The general government spends annually hundreds of thousands of dollars in dredging the mouth of the Mississippi river, and in protecting its banks from overflow, expenditures which would be rendered unnecessary if the flood waters of the western tributaries of that river were used in a judicious system of irrigation upon the arid land of the western states and territories; and WHEREAS, It is improbable that the general government will take any effective steps towards reclaiming the arid public lands, and this result can only be hoped for, and effectively accomplished, by the several states and territories; and WHEREAS, It has already been fully demonstrated that such lands can be reclaimed by irrigation, and thus add millions of dollars to the national wealth and thousands of citizens to such states and territories, results which can only be accomplished by having such lands donated to the several states and territories; and WHEREAS, We believe that a joint convention of each of the several states lying east of the Rocky Mountains and west of the Mississippi river, would result in bringing about harmonious action for the accomplishment of this end; Now, therefore, We, the senators and representatives of the Eighth General Assembly do pray that your excellency, Governor John L. Routt, will call a convention, to be held in the city of Denver, at any date you may deem opportune, and that you forward an invitation to each of the governors of the several states, requesting the presence of five delegates from their separate commonwealths, to attend the same and participate in its deliberations. Approved March 19th, 1891. (H. C. R. 7) HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION No. 7. WHEREAS, What is known as the Direct Tax Refund bill has now become a law; and WHEREAS, By the provisions thereof it becomes necessary that the legislature of each state shall formally accept the appropriation made thereunder in full satisfaction of the levy made; and WHEREAS, A large sum of money by the provisions of said law becomes due and payable to the State of Colorado: Therefore, be it resolved, (the senate concurring,) That the said appropriation is hereby formally accepted by the Legislature of the State of Colorado, and the governor of said State is hereby authorized and directed to receipt in behalf of said State in full of all demands against the United States for and on account of said appropriation upon receipt thereof by the governor. Approved March 20th, 1891. (H. C. R. 10.) HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION No. 10. WHEREAS, Owing to the large number of fish now on hand at the State fish hatchery below Denver, on the Platte river, the water supply proves to be wholly inadequate for a further increase at that location; and WHEREAS, In the opinion of the state fish commissioner a suitable water supply can be secured between Denver and the foothills on the Platte, without interfering with any existing water rights, Therefore, be it resolved, That the state fish commissioner is hereby authorized to select such a location as will furnish an additional water supply sufficient to meet the requirements of the approaching and succeeding hatching seasons. No location shall be accepted by the commissioner unless the necessary land shall be donated to the State. Approved April 6th, 1891. (C. R) CONCURRENT RESOLUTION. Resolved, By the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), That the secretary of state be instructed to print three thousand copies of the report of the State Land Board Investigating Committee. Approved April 7th, 1891. |