That in pursuance of an act regarding Soldiers' Orphans, there is hereby appointed the following persons as a "Board of Trustees. of the Iowa Soldiers' Orphans' Home:"

From the State at large, P. P. Ingalls, of Polk county; from 1st Congressional District, Thomas E. Corkhill, of Des Moines county; 2d District, J. A. Parvin, Muscatine county; 3d District, P. G. Wright, Alamakee county; 4th District, N. H. Brainard, Johnson county; 5th District, J. W. Cattell, Polk county; 6th District, J. B. Powers, Black Hawk county.

NUMBER 27.

JOINT RESOLUTIONS, asking additional Mail Facilities.

Joint Resolutions were adopted, instructing our Senators and reequesting our Representatives in Congress to use their influence to secure the early establishment of additional mail facilities and new mail routes, as follows, viz.:

1st. "A daily mail service from West Union, Fayette Co., Iowa, westward via Fredericksburgh, Williamstown and Bradford, to Nashua in Chickasaw Co.-a distance of forty miles."

2d. "A tri-weekly mail route from Postville, Alamakee Co., to Waukon in said Co., via Lybrand and Ludlow."

3d. "A daily mail route, from the city of McGregor, in Clayton county, Iowa, by the way of Elkader to Strawberry Point in said county and over the mail route now known as route No. 11,216. "

4th. A daily mail route from Ossian in Winnesheik Co., via Fort Atkinson in said Co., New Hampton and Chickasaw, in Chickasaw Co. to Charles City in Floyd Co."

5th. "A daily mail route from Des Moines, Iowa, via Indianola in Warren Co., Chariton in Lucas Co., Corydon in Wayne Co., to terminate at Lineville, on the State line between the States of Iowa and Missouri; and to intersect with a daily mail route from said Lineville to Chillicothe on the Hannibal & St. Joseph R. R. in the State of Missouri."

6th.

"A daily mail route from Independence, Buchanan Co., Iowa, to Fayette in the adjoining Co. of Fayette."

7th.

"The following mail route and mail facilities, to-wit: From Marshalltown in Marshall Co., Iowa, to New Hartford, in Butler Co., via Vienna, Wolf Creek Grove, Fifteen Mile Grove, and Grundy Centre."

8th.

"A daily mail route from Chariton, Lucas Co., Iowa, via Garden Grove, Iowa, to Leon, Decatur Co., Iowa, a distance of hirty-five miles."

9th.

"A tri-weekly mail route between the City of Decorah in the county of Winnesheik and State of Iowa, and the village of Hesper in said Co."

10th. "A semi-weekly mail route from Des Moines to Grove City in Cass Co., via McClain, Henry, Payton, Maseville, Stanfield, and Benson. Said route running through a portion of Warren and the center of Madison, Adair and Cass counties."

11th. "A tri-weekly mail from West Mitchell in Mitchell Co., by way of Plymouth and Mason City to Clear Lake in Cerro Gordo Co."

12th. "A semi-weekly mail and mail facilities from Ft. Dodge, via Dakota, Waucosta, Fenn Valley and Emmettsburgh, on the east side of the Des Moines river to Estherville, in the Co. of Emmett.

13th. "A tri-weekly mail route from Burlington, in Des Moines Co. to Ononwa in Louisa Co., by way of Port Louisa and Grand View in Louisa Co."

14th. "A mail route from Vernon in Van Buren Co., Iowa, to Memphis in Scotland Co., Missouri via Mt. Sterling and Upton in Van Buren County, Iowa."

15th. "A semi-weekly mail route between Rockford in the County of Floyd, and Northwood in the county of Worth, via Rock Grove City, Nova Springs, Shell Rock Falls and Plymouth.”

16th. "A tri-weekly mail from Newberg in Mitchell Co., Iowa, to Northwood, county seat of Worth Co., via Hartland to Bristol, Worth Co., Iowa."

17th. "A weekly mail from Northwood, county seat of Worth Co., on the most practicable route to Mason City, Cerro Gordo County."

18th. "A semi-weekly mail from Northwood, Worth Co., via Gordonville P. O., Shell Rock P. O., to Albert Lea Minnesota." 19th. "A tri-weekly mail from the city of Burlington via Toolsborough to Port Louisa in Louisa Co."

20th. "A tri-weekly route from Oceola the county seat of Clark Co., by way of Lasalle to Hopeville in said Co."

21st. "A tri-weekly mail route from Nevada, in Story Co., to Colfax in Jasper Co., via Iowa Center in Story county, Peoria and Greencastle, in Polk Co."

22d. "A tri-weekly mail from Grundy Center, Grundy county, Iowa, via Parkersburg, Butler Center, West Point, and Cold Water, in Butler Co., to Marble Rock in Floyd Co., Iowa."

23d. "A tri-weekly mail from Wheatland, in Clinton Co., through Toronto and Burgess to Monmouth in the county of Jackson, Iowa."

24th. "A tri-weekly mail route from Webster City in Hamilton Co., to Luni, in Wright Co."

25th. "A daily mail route from Boonsboro, in Boone Co., via Denison and Paradise, in Crawford Co., Olmstead and Whites

borough to St. Johns in Harrison, at the earliest period possible." 26th. "A weekly mail route from Guttenburg, Clayton Co., Iowa, via Elkport, and Littleport to Strawberry Point in said county."

NUMBER 28.

JOINT RESOLUTION.

WHEREAS, The Albany Bridge Company have built a railroad bridge from the Illinois shore of the Mississippi River across eastern channel of the same to Little Rock Island, and the Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company have connected the same with a railroad bridge built by them across the western channel of the said river, at or near the city of Clinton in Iowa, a part or section of which is a draw-bridge so constructed as to admit of the passage of vessels, steamboats, and other river craft, up and down the river; and

Whereas, These two railroad bridges, with the connection across Little Rock Island, are operated together as one to facilitate the transportation of the United States mail, passengers, merchandise, and products, between the States of Iowa and Illinois, affording safety and dispatch to the carrying of the same, without any delay or danger from ice or freshets, thereby greatly facilitating the requirements of commerce, and more particularly on account of the safe transmission of the mails of the United States; therefore,

Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Iowa, That our honorable Senators and Members of the House of Representatives in Congress assembled at Washington, be and are requested to obtain the early passage of a bill that shall declare and establish the said bridges and track across Little Rock Island a post or mail route, with same powers and restrictions as are given and required of other mail routes.

Resolved, That this Resolution be certified by the presiding officers of the two Houses and Clerks of the same, and copies forwarded to each of our Senators and Representatives.

CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS.

The following Concurrent Resolutions were passed by the 11th General Assembly, but were not enrolled. Being of general interest, it is thought best to publish them.

Resolved (the Senate concurring), That we, the representatives of the people of Iowa, urge upon the attention of Congress the importance and justice of making the bounty of soldiers who enlisted in the army to put down the Rebellion, in answer to early calls, equal to that of soldiers who enlisted under calls near the close of the war; and we earnestly entreat Congress to make such enactments as will secure even justice to all soldiers who enlisted under the various calls of the Goverment.

And be it further ordered, That copies of this resolution be forwarded to our Senators and Representatives in Congress.

NUMBER 2.

INVITING JOHN B. GOUGH TO LECTURE.

Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concur ring), That John B. Gough be and he is hereby respectfully invited to visit Des Moines, and address the General Assembly and citizens upon such subject as he may think proper.

NUMBER 3.

ASKING THAT DES MOINES RIVER BE DECLARED NOT NAVIGABLE.

WHEREAS, By the facilities that are afforded by the D. V. R. R.

for travel and transportion, the Des Moines River is no longer used for purposes of navigation;

Resolved, therefore, by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), That our Senators and Representatives in Congress be requested to use their influence to have the said Des Moines River declared not a navigable stream, to the end that the same may be more cheaply improved as a motive power for machinery.

NUMBER 4.

NATIONAL BUREAU OF DEUCATION.

Be it Resolved by the House of Representatives of the State of Iowa, the Senate concurring, That our Senators in Congress be instructed, and our Representatives requested, to favor and urge the establishment of a National Bureau of Education, with head-quarters at Washington, with a view to the collection of statistics and other information, on general education, and the dissemination of the same.

NUMBER 5.

RELATING TO THE printing of the Constitutional Amendment abolishing Slavery.

Resolved, the Senate concurring, That the Secretary of State be authorized to have printed on parchment two hundred copies of the Joint Resolution ratifying the amendment to the United States Constitution abolishing Slavery to which shall be attached the names of this General Assembly showing the names of the General Assembly, showing the vote of each member, and to furnish to each member and officer of the same a copy of said Resolution and also to each State officer, and to have framed and put up one in the State Library, and one in the Library of the State Historical Society, provided that the entire cost shall not exceed one dollar

per copy.