The Goodhue volunteer. [volume] (Red Wing, Goodhue County, Minn.) 1861-1864, 1862-03-05

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thereby Urgently demand the alteration
\ md sqhange of Route No 1855; Z to
,l run as follows: From Winona by
Minnesota City, Rolling Stone, Jeffer-
son, Elba, Quincy, Elgin, Waterloo,
to Rochester, being Forty ght miles,
I forming 4 more perfect and direct
route up the Rolling Stone and White
u Water Rivers, giving the people living
.. along said rivers connection with the
mail route to the Capital and the Great
J. Vast, ~. L.. "a, y. . r.. .s.<.
Approved Feb. 10, 1852.
S>1t ~ ~ +, -. "A MEMORIAL - n t,.,
For Special Mail Agency for the
/. State Of Minnesota.
p To, the President Of the United States ):
g. Your menoralists, the Legislature
of the State Of Minnesota, respectfully
represent:
ii That irrc gularity of the mail service
in this State together with frequent
and heavy losses by parties rel lying
upon said mail service, require a more
efficient supervision of that branch of
the public business than is afforded by
the facilities already existing:
That in many instances by the pres.
q; ent location Of routes, two or more
mails are forwarded over the same
: route at an. unnecessary expense.
4s = That the losses, during the past year
:. to parties who have transmitted money
" or its equivalent, by mails carried over
several Of the routes OF this State, have
been frequent and painfully embar
RAISING, arising, AS your memoralist<
believe, from the criminal negligence
or the dishonesty Of mail carriers OF
post masters.
That the expense, losses, delay and
confusion now incident to the mail ser
vice in this STATE, would be great,
diminished by a more direct supcrin.
tendence by the government.
Your memoria!ists would therefore
suggest and urge the appointment OF
special mail agent for the State Of
Minnesota as the sure st means to rem
edy and correct existing abuses.
Approved February 10, 1862.
MEMORIAL TO CONGRESS.
For the establishment Of mail route
from Torah, in Stcarns county, tc
Alexandria in Douglas county.
TO the Honorable the Senate and Hous
OF Representatives If the u. State
IN C"n.yress assembled:
The Legislature Of the State of Min
nesota would respectfully represent:
That great inducemcnt for emigra
ton and settlement in new country
is the early establishment Of mail routes
and postal facilities.
= That the present mail facilities af
" forded to the people of Stearns ani
Douglas counties are entirely INSULT
Gent to meet their wants, and that thu
increasing population and growing
business interests Of that portion o
the State Of Minnesota urgently de
mand the establishment Of mail rout'
from Terah, in Stearns county, vi:
lake George and Grove Lake, tt
Alexandria, in Douglas county, in thi
State.
Therefore your mcmoralists would
respectfully ask for the immediate es
tablishment Of said mail route, ant
that weekly mail service be ordered
thereon.
81 Approved February 10, 1862.
AzMEMoRIAL TO CONGRESS.
For the establishment of a mail route
o. by steamers from Detroit, Michigan
!, to the. head OF Lake Superior, il
q Minnesota.
10 the Xonorable the Senate andHous
-sag Representatives IN Congress as
:, sen,bze0:
~ The Legislature of the State Of Min
nesota would respectfully represent:
-grs"T That the present mail facilities af
forded to the people of Lake Superior
are entirely inadequate to meet tn
wants Of that section Of the country.
~. That the growing commercial inter
est Of Lake Superior demand an in
crease of mail service; and the estab
lishment of mail route by steamer
weekly from Detroit, Michigan, to Du
alhth, ir the State Of Minnesota. There
fore your memoralists, the Legislature
Of the State of Minnesota, most re
speotfully ask Of Congress the estah
.lishment Of the above specified mai
route, and that service be ordered
thereon.
"a Approved February Is, ls62.