MEMORIALS. MEMORIAL. To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States, in Congress assembled: Your memorialists, the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Arizona, respectfully represent, that the authority and control exercised over the Pima and Maricopa tribes of Indians, is insufficient, and ineffectual to prevent frequent depredations upon the settlements contiguous to them, as well as to prevent trouble and annoyance upon the highways of the Territory, passing through or near their villages. They trespass upon the farms and growing crops of farmers residing in their neighborhood, by burning their fences, and in many instances seriously injuring the products of the neighboring farms, as well as annoy our citizens by trespassing and depredating upon freighters, and carriers over the public highways, by running off their mules and cattle, and requiring money in payment for their return, to the great prejudice of said freighters and carriers. Application for relief has often been made to the agents in charge of those Indians, with no beneficial result they protesting that their power and control over these tribes is so limited as to render their efforts to prevent the grievances complained of futile. We, therefore, earnestly ask, that such measures may be adopted by your honorable bodies as will insure the citizens of this Territory from further depredations and annoyances in the future from these Indian tribes; therefore, be it Resolved, By the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Arizona, that our Delegate in Congress be, and he is hereby, requested to present this memorial to the Congress of the United States, and urge its favorable consideration by all honorable means at his command. And be it further Resolved, That the Secretary of the Territory be, and he is hereby, requested to forward a copy of this memorial to our Delegate in Congress. APPROVED February 12th, 1875. MEMORIAL To the Postmaster-General of the United States relative to mail service in Arizona. Your memorialists, the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Arizona, respectfully represent to you the great importance of the mail route from San Diego, California, via Tucson, Arizona,' to Messiller, New Mexico, and of the mail route from San Bernardino, California, via Prescott, Arizona, to Santa Fe, New Mexico; and believing that they are the most important mail routes in this Territory, by which the whole of the Territory, including the Military Posts and the United States Army therein, are supplied with their mails; and that the present mail service on said routes is inadequate to the fast-growing wants of the Territory; and that the Territory of Arizona has less mail facilities than any other of the Territories, there being now no daily mail service within the Territory; and believing, further, that continued and daily mail service and communication through new Territories, exerts a civilizing influence upon wild and nomadic tribes, and tends to the more rapid development of the great mineral and other productive interests of the country. We therefore earnestly ask your favorable consideration of this, our Memorial, and for the reasons above set forth, to place upon the foregoing mentioned mail routes, a daily mail at as early a day as practicable; and be it Resolved, by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Arizona, that to promote the object of this Memorial the Secretary of the Territory is hereby requested to forthwith transmit a copy of the same to the Postmaster-General, and also to our Delegate in Congress. APPROVED February 12th, 1875. MEMORIAL Concerning a Penitentiary in Arizona. To the Senate and Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled: Your memorialists and petitioners, the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Arizona, very respectfully represent that a Territorial Penitentiary is absolutely necessary in Arizona for the enforcement of its penal laws, and that the said Territory has received no aid from any source whatever toward the same. Your memorialists and petitioners further represent that they have at their present session appropriated the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars toward the erection of a Penitentiary for the said Territory, and provided for the proper location of the same within its limits. Your memorialists and petitioners, therefore, very respectfully pray your Honorable Bodies to appropriate the sum of fifty thousand dollars toward the erection of the said Penitentiary in and for the Territory of Arizona. Resolved, also, that our Delegate in Congress be and he is hereby instructed to use all proper means to secure the favorable action of Congress upon this memorial and petition, and that the Secretary of the Territory is hereby instructed to furnish a copy of the same to our Delegate in Congress. APPROVED February 12th, 1875. |