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6. That our senators in congress be instructed and our regresentatives
he . iquested to act in conformity to the foregoing resolutions.
Approved March 10, 1849.
JOINT RESOLUTION respecting the arms taken at the battle of
Sacramento. I
Resolved bythe Generaldssembly of the State of Missouri, as follows:
That the Quartermaster' General is hereby authorized to cause the
arms taken in the battle of Sacramento to be stacked in the rotunda of
the Capitol, in pyramidal form, so as to preserve them, and to cause the
proper prescription [inscription] to be engraved upon the same: exhibit-
ing the time, place, and manner of their capture.
Reso/ved, That the expense of the same ggall be paid out of the
treasury of the State, on the report of the QvrtermaAer General of
the cost of the same, and the auditor shall draw his warrant therefor;
provided, that the sum hereby appropriated for said purpose shaV not
exceed the stum of twenty-five dollars.
Approved March 12, 1849.
RESOLUTION requiring the Secretary of State to forward the Slavery
resolutions to the Governors of different States, and the Members
in Congress from this State.
Resolved', By the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring
therein), That the Secretary of State be required to transmit a copy o
the resolutions passed at this session of the General Assembly, on the
subject of slavery, to the Executive of each of the States of the Union,
with the request that the same be laid before their respective Legisla-
tures; and also a copy to each of our Senators and Representatives in
Congress.
Approved March 10, 1849.
JOINT RESOLUTION in relation to the Pacific Railroad.
Resolved, by the Grneral.9ssembly of the State of Missouri, as follows:
§ 1. That we, the representatives of the people of Missouri, view
with lively interest and the utmost pleasure the efforts of our distinl-
guished Senator in Congress, the Honorable Thomas H. Benton, in
furtherance of the grand project of locating and constructing a national
central railroad from San Francisco, on the Pacific, to St. Louis on the
Mississippi, with a branch to the Columbia river, as evidenced by the
notice given by him in the Senate of the United States, of his intention
to introduce into that body a hill providing for the construction and
location of said road.
§ 2. Theit we cordially approve tl;e course of our distinguished Senator
in relation to this great and national object, and we heartily tender him
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