^J*2 Thi'AlinrKUtii ( iiiiliHl'ixt . Nnv.inlHT. ISitl 
<>ii tlif (•(iiupletioii of your .survi-y you will jilfasc niiiUc a report to uh 
of tlie result of your investigations. 
Oil helialf of tlie Minnesota Historical Society: 
IIeXRY II. SiBI.EY, PrCKiihhI. 
[i-. s.| J. Fi,ET( iiKij Williams, Sirrituri/. 
[copy.] 
Statk ok Min.\es(»ta, 
En iX'iTi yk Devaktment. 
M iHiiiiii It. Meriidiii, Goiwrimr <>/ xnitl Sfitfr, In J. V. /innrrr, <>f Ilinnxi if 
''I'Kiiti/, ><ends f/recf/ni/: 
Reposing especial trust and confidence in your prudence, integrity and 
abilitj'. I have appointed you, the said J. V. Brower, as commissioner of 
the Itasca State Park, jnirsnant to an act of tlie Legislature of this State, 
approved April 20. ISiil. 
^ on are therefore by these presents appointed and commissioned 
commissioner of the Itasca State Park, as aforesaid, to liave and to hold 
the said oflice, together with all the rights, powers and emoluments to 
the said ollice belonging or by law in anywise appertaining, until this 
commission shall be b}' me or other lawful authority superseded or an- 
nulled, or expire bj' force or reason of anj'law of this State. 
In testimony whereof, T have hereunto set my name and 
caused the Great Seal of the State of Minnesota to be afhxed 
at the capitol, in the city of St. Paul, this fourth day of 
May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred 
and ninety-one, and of the State the thirty-third. 
By the UoAernor, 
WiLiJAM R. Mkruiam. 
Y. P. Biiowx, 
I I.. S.j Srrntiiri/ "f St,i/,. 
THK GOVEIiXOirS HKCiUKST. 
State ok Mixkesota, 
EXECI'TIYE DkI'AKTMENT, 
St. Pai l, Aug. :;. 1891. 
lloH.J. V. Jh-i>irci\ C'xiniu'ssi.iiirr »f till ]t,i^i-ii Stdfr l'<irl\ 4(U) J<irlx,m 
Strict, Citji. 
Sik: Publications in the papers of the state have been nuide within 
a few days past regarding the reputed discovery by a citizen of the 
State of New York of a new source of the Mississippi river, which he 
<'laims to have made in 1881, and has since widcdy publislied his right to 
be considered as its original discoverer, and causes changes to be made 
in the maps of our state in supj>ort of such discovery. 
"Sly attention has been called to these statements by citizens interested 
in the truth and correctness of the gettgraphy of our state, and it is de- 
r^irable to have some definite and correct statement olliciallv made as to 
