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(A.) 



ME MORI AT. 



Sacramrkto, April 23, 1855. 



To the Honorable the Legislature of California: 



The undersigned, for five years a resident of this State, bogs respectfully to 

 ueraorialize your honorable body on a subject of paramount importance to the 

 present and future advancement of the State's best interest, prosperity and 

 greatness, viz: the subject of inter-oceanic communication by land. 



It is a conceded fact that California justly and proudly boasts that she con- 

 tains within her domain, some of the brightest intelligences of the present age 

 aud generation, and in no relation of life, whether commercially, politically or 

 intellectually, can she be surpassed by any community on the face of the globe, 

 assimilating numerically with her in population. 



Taking these propositions as axioms, your memorialist would respectfully rep- 

 resent that to apply these multiplied advantages to a practical benefit, is to en- 

 courage and foster every enterprise that will tend either immediately or pros- 

 pectively to consummate the destiny clearly manifest to this '^ Enipire of the 

 Pacific," which, at no late day, will be and become the great emporium of the 

 commercial world. 



Your honorable body have wisely commenced the initiative step, in the appro- 

 priation of the State's funds for the construction of a road to our State's bor- 

 ders, and the General Government have, after much delay, appropriated money 

 to extend that road across the continent; but these enterprises, liberally under- 

 taken by a State and Nation, must necessarily occupy considerable time ere 

 they are prosecuted to completion. 



In view of these facts, and the urgent necessity of some immediate and prac- 

 ticable enterprise that will consummate and realize this great desideratum, your 

 memorialist respectfully submits the following jjroposition, in the full confidence 

 of vonr liberality, integrity and magnanimity, believing that the great good that 



