On Sept. 27th, 1868, the Superintendent of Schools for this Territory wrote to Jos. S. Wilson, Commissioner Land Office at Washington, asking that gentleman to use his influence to procure for Utah all the advantages accruing through the liberal grants of Government. To this communication the Commissioner replied as follows:

"Sir:-In reply to your letter of the 27th ult., I have the honor to state that sections sixteen and thirty-six are reserved for schools in Utah Territory, but title thereto cannot be acquired nntil further legislation by Congress, making the 'grant in place,' which is not usually done until the community passes from a Territorial condition to a State."

Your Memorialists, therefore, respectfully petition that such legislation may be had by your honorable body as will place this land in such position as to be made available for the object for which it was evidently intended by Congress; and your petitioners, as in duty bound, will ever pray.

GEORGE A. SMITH,

PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL.

ORSON PRATT,

SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

S. A. MANN,

ACTING GOVERNOR.

MEMORIAL

To Congress, Praying that the net proceeds of Internal Revenue be set aside for the erection of a Penitentiary. [Approved February 14, 1870.]

To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States, in Congress Assembled:

Your Memorialists, the Governor and Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah, respectfully represent that our Territorial Penitentiary is sadly out of repair, and in such a general state of dilapidation as to render it unsuitable as well as unsafe for the confinement of criminals, and in view of its having been designated by the Secretary of War as the place of confinement for military prisoners in this Territory, as also the demand for an enlarged, more healthy, and secure prison, consequent upon our continually increasing population, as well as an increased influx of drifting immigration into our settlements; now that the "Great Highway," running through our Territory, is completed, we therefore most respectfully pray that the net proceeds of the Internal Revenue of this Territory be set aside for the erection of a Penitentiary, in the

same manner as provided in "An Act setting aside proceeds
form Internal Revenue for the erection of Penitentiaries in the
Territories of Nebraka, Washington, Colorado, Idaho, Arizona
and Dacota," approved January twenty-two, eighteen hundred
and seventy.

Your favorable consideration of this subject is respectfully
desired, and your memorialists, as in duty bound, will eve
pray.

GEORGE. A. SMITH,

PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL

ORSON PRATT,

SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

S. A. MANN,

ACTING GOVERNOR.

MEMORIAL

To Congress for Annual Sessions of the Legislative Assem
bly of the Territory of Utah.

[Approved February 15, 1870.]

To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of
the United States in Congress Assembled:

Gentlemen:-Your Memorialists, the Governor and Legis-
lative Assembly of the Territory of Utah, would respectfully
ask your honorable body to provide by law for Annual Sessions
of the Legislative Assembly of Utah Territory. Your memori-
alists here adopt the language of His Excellency S. A. Mann,
Acting-Governor of the Territory in his Message to the Legis-
lative Assembly of January eleventh, eighteen hundred and
seventy.

"I would recommend you to memorialize Congress for
Annual Sessions of the Legislature, believing that the develop-
ment and progress of the Territory in opening new fields of
industry will demand your fostering and continued care," and
your Memorialists, as in duty bound, will ever pray.