Identifier: historyofnebrask00mort (find matches)
Title: History of Nebraska from the earliest explorations of the trans-Mississippi region
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Morton, J. Sterling (Julius Sterling), 1832-1902 Watkins, Albert, 1848-1923 Thomas, Augustus Orloff, 1863-1935 Beattie, James A., 1845- Wakeley, Arthur Cooper, 1855-
Subjects: Nebraska -- History
Publisher: Lincoln, Neb., Western Publishing and Engraving Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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havedone ample justice to the matter printed, andthe malter printed is in most perfect accordwith the style of its printing.1 . . The nextextra good thing is on the freedmen of thewar! Alvin desires the people of Nebraskato find suitable employment for said sablecitizens, and the people unanimously agreethat the aforesaid charcoal images of Godmay be suitably employed boarding roundamong the abolition officials of Nebraska. Inshort the nigger is the biggest and whitestthing in the message. The governor had seriously suggested inthe message that the legislature should under-take to find employment for slaves recently setfree. The auditor (and school commissioner)gives in his report an account of the first leas-ing of the school lands of the commonwealth: ler instructions from this office, theclerk of Sarpy county, during last year.leased a number of tracts of lands, and willprobably realize, when all collected, near■JiiO.00 for the one year. I have had ninner- 342 HISTORY OF NEBRASKA
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(Note—Franklin Sweet was a member of the legislature from Merrick county, Nebraska, and a cap-tain in the Union army during the Civil War.) RKAPPOIXTMKXT OF GOVERNOR SAUNDERS 343 OUS applications for leases of these lands, andcould I have a general law, under which therents could be promptly collected. 1 have nodoubt that several thousand dollars could beobtained annually from that source. The legislature at this session authorizedthe issue of bonds to an amount not exceed-ing $36,000 to provide payment of the militiacalled out by the governors proclamation ofApril 11, 1864, on account of the Indian up-rising ; authorized the governor to arrangewith the state of Iowa for the care- of the in-sane of the territory; amended the militialaw, but still required all able-bodied men be-tween the ages of eighteen and forty-five tobe enrolled; provided for the election of theauditor and treasurer biennially, instead of an-nually, after the year 1866; disconnected Buf-falo, Hall, and Merrick c

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