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Newspaper
Wisconsin Argus
Location
Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1847
Page
3
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The act provides funding for the 1847 Wisconsin Legislative Assembly expenses. It lists payments to officers, clerks, chaplains, printers, and staff, detailing per diem rates, service days, and specific disbursements for the session and related duties, with warrants to be issued for authorized amounts.
The secretary of the territory is directed to pay W. W. Wyman thirty eight dollars and fifty eight cents and Beriah Brown twenty six dollars and fifty two cents for newspapers furnished the legislative assembly at its present session. Approved February 11, 1847.
A Wisconsin territorial council memorial urges Congress to fund and authorize a project to remove rapids at Des Moines and Rock River to open the Mississippi navigation from St Anthony to the mouth. It argues improved river transport will reduce costs, protect property, boost grain trade, and aid regional growth, with a request to the President for approval.
A Wisconsin territorial memorial to President James K. Polk Friday urges delaying or halting the May sale of lands in the Mineral Point district. It argues the lands, entered years ago, were bought by settlers who have since improved and settled, and warns public sale could dispossess rightful owners and destabilize western Wisconsin. The memorial emphasizes stable tenure to encourage industry and progress, and calls for judicial review of any fraud claims before any further sale.
A Wisconsin territorial assembly memorial urges federal action to curb re sale of lands entered and paid for by pioneer settlers. It argues repeated public sales would injure residents who paid for improvements, opened mines and roads, and built prosperity, urging protection of already claimed lands. Dated February 6, 128%.
A Wisconsin Territory memorial petitions Congress for compensation for losses from the 1847 Indian intercession. It describes Elbert Dickenson of Columbia in the territory, his farm buildings and crops seized, wheat valued at about $920 from 12 hundred bushels, and resultant damages. The petition asks redress under the Indian intercourse act, urging favorable consideration of indemnifying property taken or destroyed.
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