The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-12-14
Nj. MOBLEY,
H. l. STOUT.

Report Of the Committee 10 .chom ,oas referred
the Petition of tie Dubuque and Pacific Rau.
road Company.
Your Committee TO whom referred the
Petition of the Dubuque and Pacific r. r Com
pany, asking grant of land lying below the
NAPLES aud outer cuts, having given the same
due consideration, ask leave to report as iol
lows:
Believing that large revenue is to be derived
in the future from the sale and leasing Of lots
or which is now " the Islands," in front of the
City, and believing that in the course of time
the same will be partially, it not entirely re-
claimed and become the principal busir por-
ton OF our city, they would be more than re-
luctant to see the same whole disposed of
Nor indeed would your committee recommend
the appropriation Of any part Of the Islands to
the Petitioners or others, so as 10 give said Pc
titloners or others, any Ferry rights, or any
right or authority, to claim or collect wharfage
but reserving TO the city the right to co!lec
wharfage al all lines on said Island. But your
committee would recommend that with the res
triotions and conditions above and hereafter
enumerated, grant of such part of he Island,
known as !" Bush's Island lying Lelow the
g NAPLES CUT be appropriations used in such
manner priyed for; that is 10 say, FIR their
own use, the said Petitioners not having the
right to alienatr, lease, or let the same, or any
part thereof, t. anysother corporation person
or persons, and the property to revert to the
City, if said corporation should cease TO use il
Tor the purposes mentioned in their memorial
and they to " iden the cuts now coming into the
iarbor in the manner indicated in their pr tition
Provided iowever that such grant shall be first
authorized aud sanctioned by direct vote nf
the pe"p'e within the corporate limits Of the
city of Dubuque.
| Your committee would further report agains,
granting the Petitioners any part or portion
the Island mentioned in their petition common.
! ly known the outer Island.
| Your Committee would further state, that til e,
recon- mend this grant in part from the convic-
ton that under it will be dem ,nsra'ed the iea
sibility and utility of filling up and reclaimin.
from periodical floods, the large tract Of land nov
embraced in the Islands in front of the city an,
preparing the same for occupancy and settle
ment and ultimately securing to the city, tina
which she 81 much needs, good Ian ling anc
harbor, on the big slough or m ,in channel of
The River. These lands reclaimed and cool
harbor secured, would in the opinion of you
: committee, give our young ani vig,r city
make her, what we all desire to see her, tn
Great City of the North West on the Nj siss
ppi.
Your committee report further, that in thei
opinion the City Council have NJ legal puwe
or right to authorize the filling up Of the inne
slough, as prayed for; that such authority coult
i only be granted by Congress, as the sl,u.
. mentioned has been meandered by Governmcl
= surveyors, and consequently become publ
hig hway. AT the same tim, your commttc
would recommend the granting all such righ
as the city may have, to said petitioners
bridge said slough, yet so as not to obstrucl Il
a navigation of the same.
Your committee would further recommen
i that in the event Of the Island being granted
d sala petitioners as suggested in this report, til
: the right ofway through the city prayed f
n by said petitioners be granted.
p All ofwhich is respectfully submitted.
c H. l.. STOUT,
J. T. M'CRANEY,
e Nj. MOBLEY, Com
BANcRorr's HIsToRY.-Mr Bancroft, t