The Clerk read, as follows: Memorial in relation to the establishment of an Agricultural College in Washington Territory. 1!: the honorableSenate and HoRep the U.S.A. in Gmaren aucmbled. Yo nr memorialists, the Legislative Assemblyof the Territory of Washington, would respectfully represent: that the Legislative Assembly, in theyear A. D. 1864, passedan notaccepting the propositionsoffered to the different States and territories byvirtueof the rov1sions of an act nssed by the Congress of the U.S.entitle "An actdopatingpublic lands tvoidtehe severalStatesand Territories which maydpro colleges for the benefit of agriculture an the mechanic arts;" that by subsequentlegislation this Legislative Assembly establishedand located an agricultural college, and appointed commissionersto select a site for said college and to.contract for the purchase thereof, and further provided for the government and management of said college by a board of trustees for the ocatipn. entry, and sale of lands color ted as provided for in said not of Congress, and the proper investment of the proocedsof saidsales; that in consequenceof the legislation of this Legislative Assembly a site for said collegewasselecte an the purchase the reof contracted for by the commis soifoners uppomted for that purpose; that the board trustees fully organized and caiised the selection of 30,000 acres of land appropriated by Congress, and madeapplication to enter the samein the proper land ofice of the U.S.; that afterward the ComrGLO decidedthat the said not did only apply to the States and not to the different Territories of the U.S.: wherefore, in view of the premisesaforesaid. your inc morialists respectfully petition your honorale bodies to extend the bone its of the said not of Congressto the Territory of Washington. to the end that the legislation had in this Territory on the subject matter may be carried into practical effect and thereby material aid be extended for the development of the agricultural resourceand the advancemrnt of the mechanic arts in thisTerritory. Passed the HoRep December21, 865 WARD ELDR IDGE. Speaker of the HoRep. Passedeouncil Jnnusry 3.1866. HARVEY K. HINES. President of UMCouncil. A trnce opyfromtheoriginal memorialof the legisltative m Assembly of Washington Territory, asfiled in is o co. Witness myhand and sealof office, at Olympia, this [1"8 1 29mday of J“““fiifw3 6i Evans SecyWashingtonTerritom.