Cariboo and Saskatchawan gold mines, in. British America, will be compelled to travel this route. Your memorialists would further represent that there are streams, to the number of ten, that would require good bridges, and numerous smaller ones of less importance that would require bridging to insure the safety of transit for the different conveyances which pass through this section.
And to aid in the construction of this road, your memorialists would respectfully wge upon your honorable body an appropriation of the sum of ten thousand dollars, and that the expenditure of this sum may be placed in charge of the War Department, to be used for the above-named purpose under the direction of said department.
And in duty bound your memorialists will ever pray, &c.
- Approved May 8, 1862.
CHAPTER 98.
To the Congress of the United States:
The legislature of the Territory of Dakota would respectfully represent:
That, whereas, the state of Minnesota has, by a recent act of its legislature, established a state road from Mankato west to the line between Minnesota and the Territory of Dakota, in the vicinity of Sioux falls; and, whereas, this is the most direct route from Fort Ridgley to Fort Randall; and, whereas, there is now no travelled route between said forts, except the route by Spirit lake and Sioux city, Iowa, therefore your memorialists would pray that an appropriation of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) be made, or such other sum as shall be deemed adequate to lay out and construct a military road from the western terminus of said state road by Sioux falls to Yankton, a distance of ninety miles, intersecting at that
