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of the Territory is here reproduced. It is as follows:

"An Act to Provide for the Civil Expenses of the Territorial Government.

"Be It Enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Arizona:

"Sec. 1. That the following sums be and they are hereby appropriated for the objects hereinafter expressed, viz:

"For the salary of the attorney-general for the past year and up to the tenth day of November, A. D. 1864, eleven hundred and sixty-six ($1,166) dollars.

"For the printing of the journals of the Legislature and other public printing, eleven hundred and twenty-one ($1,121) dollars.

"For the salary of the Territorial Treasurer, fifteen hundred ($1,500) dollars.

"For the salary of the attorney-general for the next year, ending November tenth, 1865, two thousand ($2,000) dollars.

"For the salary of the Adjutant General, five hundred ($500) dollars.

"For the necessary appropriations for school purposes, fifteen hundred ($1,500) dollars.

"For printing the laws of the Territory, three thousand ($3,000) dollars.

"For reading the proof and superintending the printing of the Code, two hundred and fifty ($250) dollars.

"For enrolling the Code of the Legislature, one thousand ($1,000) dollars.

"For the contingent expenses of the Territorial Government for the year ending December

thirty-first, 1865, fifteen hundred ($1,500) dollars.

"For the commissioner, the Honorable William T. Howell, for drafting a Code of Laws for the Territory, two thousand five hundred ($2,500) dollars.

"For Milton B. Hadley, for translating the Governor's message into the Spanish language, one hundred ($100) dollars.

"Sec. 2. That in case there shall not be sufficient money in the Territorial treasury, the treasurer is hereby authorized to pay such appropriation in bonds provided to be issued by an act entitled 'An Act to provide for the Contingent Expenses of the Territorial Government,' passed at the present session of the Legislature.

"Sec. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

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All of these appropriations were payable in currency which, at that time, was worth somewhere about fifty cents on the dollar in gold.

Congress was memorialized, first to increase the per diem of the members of the Legislature from $3.00 per day in currency, to $8.00 per day, and that an addition to the salaries of the Governor, Secretary, and Superintendent of Indian Affairs of the Territory, of not more than fifteen hundred dollars be allowed, and an addition to the salaries of each of the three Territorial Judges of not more than fifteen hundred dollars be allowed, and that the salary of the United States District Attorney be increased to two thousand dollars, and that the salary of the United States Marshal be increased to fifteen hundred dollars, and that the pay of the United States District Clerks be increased to fifteen dol

lars per day, and that the pay of the United States Grand Jurors be increased to eight dollars per day.

The salaries received by the officials of the new territory are not set forth in the organic act but as that act expressly adopted all the terms and provisions of the organic act of New Mexico not inconsistent with the provisions of the organic act of Arizona, the salaries of the officials of Arizona were fixed by New Mexico's act in 1850, and were as follows:

Governor, $1,500 per annum ; Secretary, $1,800 per annum; Attorney, $250 per annum; Marshal, $200 per annum and fees, and three justices of the Supreme Court at $1,800 each. The members of the Legislature were to hold annual sessions of 40 days, at a compensation of three dollars for each member, and mileage at the rate of three dollars for 20 miles. In 1854 the salary of the Governor was increased to $3,000, and that of the judges by $500.

The Legislature also memorialized Congress asking that an appropriation of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars for the placing of the Indians of the Colorado on a reservation, be made, such Indians being the Yavapais, Hualapais, Mohaves and Yumas, numbering about ten thousand, who, the memorial recited, were scattered over an extent of country from the Gila River on the south to the northern boundary of the Territory, and from the Colorado River on the west to the Verde River on the east; that these Indians were roaming at large over the vast territory described, gaining a precarious subsistence from the small patches of land along the Colorado River, which they cultivated, and from fishing

and hunting; that when the seasons were unfavorable to their little farming interests, or the Colorado did not overflow to irrigate and enrich their fields, they were reduced to a starving condition, and compelled by necessity to make raids upon the stock and property of the whites, and not infrequently did they ambush the traveler and miner, and waylay and stampede the stock of trains and plunder their packs and wagons.

Congress was also memorialized for an appropriation of $250,000 for the organization of volunteers or rangers in the Territory, to aid in the war against the Apaches, and also for an appropriation of $150,000 for the improvement of the navigation of the Colorado River from Yuma to the mouth of the Virgin River, from which latter point, the memorial recited, there was a fine natural road, a distance of only three hundred and fifty miles to Salt Lake City, and that by this route the Government, as well as private transportation could be furnished in a much shorter time, and at less cost, than by any other route; that if the navigation of the river were improved, it would accommodate the general Government, and greatly increase and hasten the development of the vast mineral and other resources of the Territory.

CHAPTER VII.

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT'S TREATMENT OF

ARIZONA.

CONGRESS DISREGARDS APPEALS OF ARIZONA FOR AID SYLVESTER MOWRY'S PROTEST AGAINST GOVERNMENT TAKING OVER MINES JUDGE HOWELL'S LETTERS-NAVIGATION OF COLORADO RIVER-ACTIVITIES OF DELEGATE CHAS. D. POSTON IN CONGRESS HIS SPEECH IN CONGRESS.

It shows how utterly regardless Congress was of the needs of Arizona when it is stated that none of the memorials set forth in the preceding chapter were acted upon. It was right that the per diem of members of the Legislature should be increased, because three dollars a day in currency did not pay their board in Prescott at that time. Board alone, without room rent, was from fifteen to twenty dollars in gold per week, and the increase in the salaries of the officers asked for was certainly not exorbitant.

The gathering in of the Indians along the Colorado River upon one reservation where they could be protected from the aggressions of the whites, and which would have afforded the whites protection against the raids of the Indians, was certainly something which Congress should have acted upon immediately, for while Congress set aside seventy-five thousand acres on the Colorado for an Indian Reservation, it made no provision whatever, so far as I can find, for a survey, the digging of canals for irrigating and the settlement of the Indians upon the reservation, consequently, for all practical purposes the

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