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Show -2- Request for cession of land. Motives. Number XXVII.-Joint-Resolution. [Passed April 12, 1859.] Be it resolved, By the Senate and Assembly, that our Representatives in Congress be requested, and our Senators instructed, to procure the passage of a bill which the Federal Government shall cede and donate the following described tract of land to the State of California, said tract being bounded and described as follows, to wit: beginning at the initial point of the San Bernardino base-line, as established by the general survey; from thence, running east on the said line, to the Colorado River; thence down said river, to its junction with the Southern State-line; thence west, along said line, to the eastern base of the main range of mountains; and from thence northerly, along the base of said range of mountains, to the place of beginning; all of the above described sections, with the exception of so much as the Government may wish to reserve for the Military Post now established on the Colorado River, at the junction of the Gila. It is respectfully represented, that the State of California, in thus applying to the Federal Government to become the custodian of the above described tract of land, is actuated by no other motive than that of our common good, and general welfare, being fully impressed with the conviction that the disposition which it is in contemplation to make of those lands, will inure to the benefit of both State and Federal Government. |
