3d Session.

AMENDMENT OF THE RULES.

No. 8.

DECEMBER 6, 1872.-Referred to the Committee on the Rules and ordered to be printed.

Mr. CHAFFEE, on leave, introduced the following

RESOLUTION:

Resolved, That the rules of this House be so changed as to authorize the Speaker thereof to appoint one Delegate upon each of the following committees, to wit: Committee on Indian Affairs, Public Lands, Mines and Mining, and Private Land Claims, said Delegates to have the same rights and privileges as they are entitled to in the House.

DECEMBER 9, 1372.-Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed.

Your memorialists, the legislative assembly of the Territory of Dakota, do represent that whereas the governor of this Territory did, on the 30th day of August, A. D. 1862, issue a proclamation calling out the militia forces of the Territory for the purpose of protection against impending attacks of hostile Sioux Indians; and whereas our citizens liable to military duty did respond promptly and faithfully to the call and commands of the governor, which valuable services rendered have thus far been without payment or reward, as well as the other expenses incurred in furnishing provisions for said military forces and erecting fortifications, all of which more fully appear by the territorial auditor's report, herewith accompanying:

Therefore, your memorialists, conscious of the justness of asking the General Government to defray the expenses enumerated in the accompanying auditor's report, do hereby pray your honorable body to appropriate to the Territory of Dakota the sum of twenty-eight thousand one hundred and thirty-seven dollars and seventeen cents, ($28,137.17,) being the amount sufficient to meet the indebtedness incurred during the Indian hostilities of the fall of 1862.

Your memorialists also ask the attention of Congress to the fact that our Territory is yet in its infancy, and has been retarded in the development of her resources by Indian troubles, and that it appears to your memorialists that it would be unjust to ask our citizens by taxation to meet the expense above referred to, especially when it is considered that, at the commencement of our Indian troubles, we were without adequate protection from the General Government.

You memorialists trust that your honorable body will not be unmindful of the important fact that the amount asked for is comparatively small to the amounts claimed by other Territories for similar services, and under no more trying circumstances; and, further, your memorialists do aver that the several amounts audited and allowed by the com

missioner appointed by the legislative assembly for such purpose are reasonable in the extreme; and it is earnestly hoped that the valuable services of our citizen-soldiers will not be permitted by Congress to go unrequited in so small a degree, when, by their untiring watchfulness, and hardships endured by them in the field, protection was not only offered to our own settlements, but also to the settlements of Northern Nebraska, Northwestern Iowa, and Western Minnesota.

EXECUTIVE OFFICE, YANKTON, D. T.,
November 23, 1872.

I, Edwin S. McCook, secretary and acting governor of Dakota Territory, do hereby certify that the foregoing memorial of the legislative assembly of 1862-63 is a correct transcript from the official files in my office.

Witness my hand and the great seal of said Territory, at Yankton, this 23d day of November, 1872.

[SEAL.]

EDWIN S. McCOOK,' Secretary and Acting Governor of Dakota Territory.

PROCLAMATION.

Whereas the recent Indian outbreak, and the war in Minnesota, and the still more recent attack at Sioux Falls, and the murder in open daylight of one of our oldest and most respected settlers, and his son, (Judge Amidon and son,) in their field, within a mile of a place guarded by a detachment of the Dakota Cavalry, gives us good reason to fear Indian depredations, and warns us to prepare for defense. Therefore—

It is ordered that every male citizen in the Territory, between the ages of eighteen and fifty, shall at once enrol himself in a company to be formed for home defense in his respective county, with such arms as he may have in his possession.

Immediately on the reception of this proclamation, it is ordered that the citizens of Cole County assemble at Elk Point, for the purpose of organizing a company for home protection; that the citizens of Clay County meet at the town of Vermillion; that the citizens of Yankton County meet at the town of Yankton; that the citizens of Bon Homme County meet at Bon Homme; the citizens of Todd County will meet at the settlement opposite the mouth of the Running Water River; and the citizens of Charles Mix County, will meet at Pease settlement.

I have already made a requisition on the commanding officer at Fort Randall for arms and ammunition, which will at once be distributed among the companies formed If a sufficient supply of arms cannot be had at Fort Randall, I will at once supply each company with arms from Fort Leavenworth.

The citizens of each county will, after assembling together, proceed to elect their own officers, who will be commissioned by me as soon as the returns of the election shall be sent to this office. I will endeavor to secure from the Yankton agency a few reliable Yankton Indians to act

as scouts.

In witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my official seal.

Done at Yankton, this thirtieth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two. [SEAL.]

JOHN HUTCHINSON, Secretary.

WILLIAM JAYNE,

Governor.

I, Edwin S. McCook, secretary and acting governor of Dakota Territory, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct transcript of the proclamation, now on record in my office.

Witness my hand and the great seal of said Territory this 2d day of November, 1872.

[SE AL.]

EDWIN S. McCOOK,

Secretary and Acting Governor of Dakota.

SPECIAL ORDER.

HEADQUARTERS DAKOTA MILITIA,

Yankton, Dakota Territory, October 7, 1862. Whereas Indian depredations have recently been committed within the limits of our Territory, and a feeling of anxiety and insecurity prevails among the inhabitants, which is rapidly depopulating the Territory; and having applied by special messenger to General Blunt, commanding the Department of Kansas, for troops from without our limits to protect our settlements, and owing to a change in this military department, and the application not yet having been complied with: Therefore, believing that longer delay will endanger the lives and. property of our inhabitants, it is hereby ordered that the militia shall forthwith enter upon active service. I have concluded to accept eight companies of volunteer militia, (four companies of infantry and four of cavalry,) to serve for nine months unless sooner discharged. This force will be tendered to Major-General Pope for his acceptance into the United States service for the said term of nine months.

The officers and men of the cavalry companies will be required to farnish their own horses, equipments, and clothing until such time as the same can be otherwise furnished. Rations will be furnished the men as soon as they are accepted by me. The pay will be the same as allowed to similar companies in the United States service.

The militia companies in the Territory, organized, will be accepted as soon as tendered with a full complement of men, which requires, by territorial law, thirty men as the minimum number for cavalry, and forty for infantry.

In addition to those companies now organized, other companies will be accepted until the full number is obtained.

Rendezvous will be designated to each company as soon as it shall be accepted.

It is hoped that, in this time of danger to our frontier, amid national embarrassment, our citizens will promptly respond to this call, and defend their firesides from the outrages of the Indian, and restore to our habitants that quiet and security which but recently prevailed, and re-establish Dakota as a safe and inviting home to the emigrant. WM. JAYNE,

Governor and Commander in-Chief of Militia, Dakota Territory.

SECRETARY'S OFFICE,

Yankton, Dakota, November 2, 1872.

I, Edwin S. McCook, secretary and acting governor of Dakota Territory, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct transcript of the order of Governor Jayne, now on record in my office. Witness my hand and the great seal of said Territory this 2d day of November, 1872.

(SEAL.]

EDWIN S. McCOOK, Secretary and Acting Governor of Dakota.