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BREAKWATER IN PORT AUSTIN.

RESOLUTION

OF

THE LEGISLATURE OF MICHIGAN,

ASKING FOR

An appropriation of money for the construction of a breakwater and lighthouse in the harbor of Port Austin.

FEBRUARY 25, 1867.-Referred to the Committee on Commerce and ordered to be printed.

Whereas there is no safe harbor of refuge for shipping and the protection of life and commerce on Lake Huron and Saginaw bay, between St. Clair river and the mouth of Saginaw river, a distance of one hundred and sixty miles; and whereas a safe, convenient, and commodious harbor can be created by the erection of a breakwater in the harbor of Port Austin, which would save to commerce the delay, and to life the danger, of seeking refuge sixty to one hundred miles away; and whereas the many dangerous reefs in the vicinity of the mouth of Saginaw bay, and the frequent recurrence of sudden and violent storms in that region have been the cause of many wrecks and great loss of life and property, which would, to a great extent, be avoided if a light-house were erected upon a lot now owned by the United States, and purchased by them for that purpose, at the harbor of Port Austin, on the northwest side of Pointe au Barque: Therefore,

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That our senators and representatives in Congress be requested to use their influence to secure an appropriation in money for the purpose of constructing a breakwater and light-house in the harbor of Port Austin, Michigan.

Resolved, That the governor be requested to transmit copies of the foregoing preamble and resolutions to each of our senators and representatives in Congress. HENRY H. CRAPO.

EQUALIZATION OF BOUNTIES.

RESOLUTION

OF

THE LEGISLATURE OF INDIANA,

INSTRUCTING

Their senators and representatives in Congress to use their influence to procure the passage of a bill equalizing bounties.

FEBRUARY 25, 1867.-Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to b printed.

Whereas it is a fact apparent to all persons that many private soldiers who were engaged in the late war against the south, and also the families of many deceased soldiers, are now in limited, if not destitute, circumstances; and whereas the law on the subject of bounties makes an unjust discrimination between perBons entitled thereto, in regard to the amount of the same: Therefore

Be it resolved by the senate, (the house concurring,) That our senators in Congress be instructed, and our representatives be requested, to use their influence to procure the passage of an act for the equalization of the bounties of all persons entitled thereto under the provisions of any act of Congress on that subject.

Passed general assembly of Indiana February 20, 1867.
O. M. WILSON,
Secretary of the Senate.

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FEBRUARY 25, 1867.-Referred to the Committee on Territories and ordered to be printed.

Resolved, That the Committee on Territories be instructed to inquire into the necessity of having a larger military force stationed in Utah Territory in order to protect the people against Indian hostilities and other outrages; to preserve order when the civil authority shall fail or prove inadequate to any condition or emergency demanding such aid; and, generally, to secure the execution of the laws of the United States in said Territory. Also, what additional number of troops and what legislation, if any, are required to accomplish the objects above named, and meet the wants and condition, present as well as prospective, of said Territory.

JEFFERSON BARRACKS, MISSOURI, February, 1867.

DEAR SIR: Your letter of January 11, from Washington, requesting a report of my observations upon affairs in Utah while there in October last, is received, and the following is submitted as a summary of facts that appeared most prominent:

The Mormons reached Utah nineteen years ago last autumn, numbering about five thousand men, women, and children. They now number, in the Great. Basin, about one hundred thousand. Their ratio of increase is an increasing one; that is, the proportional increase to their number is each year greater. Last season they brought from abroad about five thousand. The number they bring on is only limited by their ability to care for them until they become selfsupporting. Their systems, in this respect, as well as in everything else, seems very complete. The newly arrived families are subsisted the first winter from the "church tithe," during which time their farms are surveyed and apportioned, material secured for buildings, seed and teams furnished, and in the spring each goes quietly and industriously at his own work on his own apportioned land. Their settlements are principally along the foot of the west slope of the Wasateln mountains; but in the south of Utah they reach across it, and near the Colorado river. This strip is nearly six hundred (600) miles long from north to south, is composed of numerous narrow valleys, and if all the tillable land could be put

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