Resolved, That the proceedings of this
meeting be publisher! in the Galena Cour
ier, Galena Gazette, Gmut County Her
ald, Grant County Witness, Dunieith Ad
vertiser, and one German paper in Mil
waukee.
The meeting then adjourned.
M. A. Harper, Ch’n.
Geo. Badcock, Sec’y.
Minern' Meet xia at Uritisli
Hollow, Wis.
A large and respectable meeting of the
miners of Potosi. British Hollow, Rock\ ille,
and German Settlement, was held at Mr.
Daniel Banfii’s Store House on Saturday,
April 13, at 2 o’clock, PfM., for the pur
pose of rejecting paper money in payment
for lead ore.
The meeting was called to order by
Jonathan Craig, when Thomas Davies was
chosen Chairman and Thomas Stevens
Secretary.
The Chairman vtated the object of the
meeting was to take into caiisideration and
adopt some measures to compel smelters to
pay specie for lead ore; after which a mo
tion was made and adopted that the Chair
man appoint a committee of five to dtaft
resolutions to reach the object desired,
when Jonathan Craig, Jonathan Longstatf,
G. W. Paugh, John Webb and Samuel
Blair were appointed said committee. The
committee weie out some twenty minutes
and returned with the following resolutions,
which were read separately and adopted:
Resolved, 'That we do not consider any
and all bank bills to be a lawful tender;
that the very system itself is based on the
principal of enriching the few lazy scoun
drels engager! therein at the expense of the
hard earnings of the laboring class.
Resolved, That as God in h.;s vnsdom
has enriched a great portion of our beloved
land with the precious metal, we believe
that there is enough specie circulating me
dium to be had which will not depreciate
in value by being kept in our hands.
