NUMBER VII.

JOINT RESOLUTION recommending the appointment of Colonel Frederick Salomon as brigadier-general in the expedition organizing in Kansas.

Resolved, by the assembly of the state of Wisconsin, the senate concurring, That the legislature of this state would respectfully recommend Colonel Frederick Salomon, of the 9th (German) regiment of Wisconsin volunteers, as a proper person to be appointed brigadiergeneral of volunteers in the expedition now being organized in Kansas, under the command of Major-General Hunter.

Resolved, further, That copies of these resolutions be immediately forwarded to the president of the United State, the secretary of war, and Major-General Hunter.

Approved February 20, 1862.

NUMBER VIII.

JOINT RESOLUTION recommending to the war department "Hartley's breechloading cannon.'

Resolved, by the assembly, the senate concurring, That the experiments here made in firing the "Hartley breech-loading cannon," have been eminently successful; and in view of the testimony adduced from military men [as] to the utility of the invention, that the same be, and is hereby recommended to the war department for such other or final tests as are, by the laws of the United States, authorized to be made, at the public expense, under the supervision of the ordnance bureau, in like cases. Approved March 6, 1862.

NUMBER IX.

JOINT RESOLUTION relative to printing, and to authorize the secretary of state to audit certain accounts therefor.

Whereas, The adjournment of the legislature until the 3d of June, will prevent the state printer from completing a large amount of work incident to the session, until after the final adjournment, thereby causing him great inconvenience: therefore,

Resolved, by the senate, the assembly concurring, That the secretary of state be and he is hereby authorized and directed to compute the amount of paper, presswork, composition, &c., upon such unfinished work, and to audit the same so far as it is actually done, or may be done previous [previously] to said 3d day of June: provided, that on the final completion and delivery of such work, the amount so audited and allowed shall be deducted from [the] total cost of the same.

Approved April 7, 1862.

NUMBER X.

JOINT RESOLUTION for printing and distributing extra copies [of the] agricultural society's transactions in foreign countries.

Resolved, by the senate, the assembly concurring, That the state printer is hereby instructed to print, on extra book paper, and to fold, stitch and cover in pamphlet form, one thousand copies of the report of the Wisconsin state agricultural society on the industrial resources, condition of and progress of the state, together with the map prepared by the secretary of the society, for distribution in foreign countries: provided, that the entire cost of the one thousand copies shall not exceed the sum of seventy-five dollars; and that the governor is hereby instructed to forward the same to London, England, in care of J. W. Hoyt, commissioner from this state to the world's industrial exhibition, for distribution to the commissioners of other countries, as he may think best; and also one thousand additional copies, at a cost not exceeding fifty dollars, for the use of the legislature, five hundred for the senate, and five hundred for the assembly.

Approved April 7, 1862.

NUMBER XI.

JOINT RESOLUTION tendering to the president of the United States, approval for his course.

Resolved, by the assembly, the senate concurring, That we tender to the president of the United States our unqualified approval of

the manner in which he has administered the government from his inauguration to the present time, a period of difficulties, dangers and vast and delicate responsibilities, without a parallel in the history of the nation; and that as Wisconsin has given him her prompt support and her unlimited confidence in the past, so for the future, having undiminished faith in his ability, integrity and patriotism, we pledge him our continued co-operation, and that of our state, in all such measures as he shall deem just and proper for the accomplishment of the great undertaking of his administration, the restoration of the authority of the constitution and the supremacy of the laws of the United States, in every state and territory where they have been assailed or questioned.

Resolved, That the secretary of state be directed to transmit a copy of these resolutions to the president of the United States and to each of our senators and representatives in congress. Approved April 5, 1862.

NUMBER XII.

JOINT RESOLUTIONS tendering the thanks of the people of this state to Captain Cannon.

Resolved, by the assembly, the senate concurring, That the thanks of the people of the state of Wisconsin are hereby tendered to post quartermaster Captain John R. Cannon, of Savannah, Tennessee, for his prompt action in attempts to recover the body of Governor Harvey; and

Resolved, further, That the secretary of state forward to Captain Cannon a copy of this resolution, tendering the thanks of a grateful state for his timely and efficient aid in recovering the body of our lamented governor.

Approved June 10, 1862.

NUMBER XIII.

JOINT RESOLUTION relative to the death of Governor L. P. Harvey.

Whereas, By the decrees of Divine Providence, his excellency, Louis P. Harvey, chief magistrate of this state, has been suddenly

taken from among us, in the midst of usefulness and in the prime of his manhood: therefore,

Resolved, by the senate, the assembly concurring, That by the death of Governor Harvey, the state has lost an honest, faithful and efficient public officer, a high-toned gentleman, a warm-hearted philanthropist, and a sincere friend.

Resolved, That we offer to the bereaved widow our tenderest sympathy in this great sorrow that has so suddenly fallen upon her, and commend her to that God who alone is able to give her consolation, and enable her in a becoming manner to submit to the inscrutable decree of the Almighty.

Resolved, That we tender the thanks of the people of this state to the Hon. Perry H. Smith, Capt. Wm. Waiker of the Lady Pike, Capt. Fosdick of the 29th Ind. regiment, Mr. Singleton and Mr. Britt, for their disinterested kindness and liberality in restoring to us the body of the late governor of this state.

Resolved, That as members of the legislature of the state of Wisconsin, we will wear the usual badge of mourning during the present session, and that the flag of the union be draped in mourning and raised at half-mast upon the capitol, during the same pe

riod.

Resolved, That the governor be requested to forward to Mrs. Harvey, the Hon. P. H. Smith, Capt. Wm. Walker, Capt. Fosdick, Mr. Singleton and Mr. Britt, each a copy of these resolutions. Approved June 13, 1862.

NUMBER XIV.

JOINT RESOLUTIONS in relation to [the] "agricultural college bill."

Whereas, It is proposed, in the present congress of the United States, to pass a so-called "agricultural college bill," by the terms of which said bill thirty thousand (30,000) acres of the unsold government lands are to be given to each senator and representative in congress, for the purpose of establishing agricultural colleges in each state of the union; and whereas, it is manifestly unjust to the western states, within whose borders nearly all the unsold government lands now lie, to take said lands, or any part thereof, to be appropriated to or held and controlled by corporations without the states in which such unsold lands may lie, and particularly to grant such lands to the old states of the union, that have already realized the full benefits of settlement on nearly if not on every quarter

section of land in their respective states; and, further, whereas, such bill, if passed, will take a large amount of the unsold government lands in Wisconsin from the operations of the homestead bill, and from entry and pre-emption: therefore,

Resolved, by the senate, the assembly concurring, That the people of the state of Wisconsin protest against the passage of any law by the congress of the U. S., which, in effect, takes from settlement and cultivation, by the people of the western states, the unsold government lands of the west, and more particularly the unsold government lands in the state of Wis.

2d. Resolved, That our senators and representatives in congress be instructed and requested to use all honorable means to defeat the passage of the so-called "agricultural college bill," or any bill to take the unsold government lands from market or settlement, as now provided by law.

3d. Resolved, That the governor be and he is hereby requested to forward a copy of these resolutions to each of our senators and representatives in congress, with all convenient speed. Approved June 13, 1862.