University of California Berkeley 
 
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REPORTS 
 
 TREASURER AND SECRETARY 
 
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 CALIFORNIA BRANCH 
 
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 WITH A SUII'LKMKXT 
 
 
 RECEIPTS BY REV. II. W. BELLOWS, D. I). 
 
 
 FINAL REPORT OF THE CALIFORNIA BRANCH, 
 
 S A N F II A X <" i 
 \ VXD GENERAL JOB PRIX 
 
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REPORTS 
 
 TREASURER AND SECRETARY 
 
 OF THE 
 
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 S OE/ } SAN FRANCISCO, 
 
 TO THE 
 
 CALIFORNIA BRANCH 
 
 United States ^ imitam ^ommissiian, 
 
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 WITH A SUPPLEMENT 
 
 CONTAIN! X (1 
 
 THE RECEIPTS BY REV. H. W. BELLOWS, D.D. 
 
 DCRING HIS RESIDENCE IN SAN FRANCISCO- 
 
 SAN FRANCISCO: 
 S. H. WADE & CO., STEAM BOOK AND JOB PRINTERS, 
 
 Corner of Washington and Kearnj Streets. 
 
 1865. 
 
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CONTENTS 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 Introductory 7 
 
 Contributions by Counties 9 
 
 Recapitulation by Counties 33 
 
 Total of Receipts 34 
 
 Recapitulation of Disbursements 34 
 
 Supplement, containing Dr. Bellows' Receipts 3i> 
 
 Secretary's Report 43 
 
INTRODUCTORY. 
 
 The occasion of a reorganization of the committee 
 selected in this city, more than two years ago, for the 
 collection and remittance of the charities of the people 
 for the aid of sick and wounded soldiers, and the end of 
 its existence as a merely local organization, seemed a 
 proper time for them to prepare and publish an account 
 of the moneys so received, with a statement of the entire 
 action of the committee. They therefore offer herein a 
 detailed account of all the moneys of which the generous 
 people of this coast has made them the Trustees, and of 
 the manner in w r hich they have fulfilled that trust. 
 
 Following the account of the Treasurer, Jas. Otis, is 
 the report of the Secretary, A. L. Tubbs, giving a his 
 tory of the movement up to the formation of " The Cali 
 fornia Branch of the United States Sanitary Commis 
 sion," August llth, 1864. 
 
 During the residence of Dr. Bellows in this State, he 
 was the constant recipient of contributions to the Sani 
 tary Fund from various portions of this State and the 
 adjoining States and Territories, and the Sandwich 
 Islands. In the pressure of engagements up to the hour 
 of his departure for the East, he was unable to make 
 
INTRODUCTORY. 
 
 any public acknowledgment of the receipts in n detailed 
 statement. From memoranda which he left, a full and 
 complete list of all the donations received from the date 
 of his arrival in San Francisco, April 31st, to that of his 
 departure, September 23d, 1864, has been prepared, and 
 appears as a supplement following the Treasurer's Ke- 
 port. 
 
 This pamphlet does not contain a complete statement 
 of all the moneys contributed to the Sanitary Fund 
 during the existence of this committee by the people of 
 the Pacific Coast, or even of this State. Committees 
 have also existed in other communities, through whom 
 large donations have been made for the same charitable 
 object. In this connection may be mentioned the com 
 mittees formed in Nevada and Oregon, and those having 
 their headquarters at Sacramento, Stockton and Marys- 
 ville, in this State. 
 
 The committee take this opportunity to make public 
 acknowledgment of their obligations to Messrs. Wells, 
 Fargo & Co., who conveyed, free of expense, almost 
 daily, contributions from various portions of the Pacific 
 Coast to the Sanitary Fund, through the medium of this 
 committee, and to the loyal press of this coast, for their 
 cordial espousal of the cause of the suffering soldier. 
 
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 CONTRIBUTIONS 
 
 RECEIVED BY THE 
 
 SOLDIER'S' RELIEF FUND COMMITTEE, 
 
 OF SAN FRANCISCO, 
 
 From September 13, 1862, to August 13, 1864. 
 
 ALAMEDA COUNTY. 
 
 1862. Nov. 22. Sunday School 
 
 1863. Sept. 11. Polls 
 
 ALVARADO. 
 
 18G4. July 6. Ladies' Dinner and Flag 
 Presentation to Alvarado* 
 
 Guards 
 
 July 1C. Monitor Precinct 
 
 BROOKLYN. 
 
 1862. Dec. 11. Public School 
 
 1864. Mar. 27. Ladies' Fair 
 
 HAYWARD'S. 
 1864. Jan'y 2 
 
 MOUNT EDEN. 
 
 1863. Sept. 11. Polls 
 
 MONONA FLAT. 
 
 1862. Oct. 23 
 
 OAKLAND. 
 
 1863. Sept. 4. Polls 
 
 1864. Feb. 19 i $25 00 
 
 O 
 
 5 10 .. 
 176 25 
 
 350 .. 
 52 . 
 
 6 .. 
 460 . 
 
 27 50 
 
 213 95 
 
 100 . 
 
 300 50 
 234 . 
 
10 ALAMEDA COUNTY. 
 
 
 
 SAN LEANDRO. 
 1863. Sept. 22. A. M. Church 
 
 CURRENCY 
 
 COIN. 
 
 $ 14 10 
 
 Dec. 19. Do. 
 
 $> 20 
 
 
 18G4. March I. Do. 
 
 
 20 
 
 " 24. Do. 
 
 
 10 
 
 May 14 
 
 10 
 
 
 July 2. A. M. Church 
 
 10 
 
 
 " 6. Picnic 
 
 28 
 
 74 50 
 
 Au(*. 2. ... 
 
 9 
 
 
 " 13. A. M. Church 
 
 10 
 
 
 COUNTY AT LARGE. 
 
 1862. Nov. 10 
 
 
 7,885 95 
 
 Dec. 30. By S. S. Huff 
 
 20 .. 
 
 435 
 
 1863. April 11. Do 
 
 140 . . 
 
 320 50 
 
 1864. Feb. 25. Do. 
 
 
 **% 28 
 
 
 
 
 Total 
 
 $270 .. 
 
 10718 25 
 
 AMADOR COUNTY. 
 
 DRYTOWN. 
 1862. Dec. 17 
 
 
 
 FIDDLETOWN. 
 1863. Dec. 15. Ladies 
 
 
 &z4y 50 
 
 IONE VALLEY. 
 
 1862. Oct. 20 
 
 
 QOQ CA 
 
 Nov. 12. .. 
 
 
 fiO OK 
 
 Dec. 11 
 
 
 7K 
 
 1863. Dec. 2. 
 
 
 ft 07 
 
 JACKSON. 
 
 1863. Nov. 24 
 
 
 r\ 
 
 Dec. 3 
 
 
 
 MARKLEEVILLE. 
 1864. June 14. Ladies' Festival 
 
 
 O7A KA 
 
 SUTTER CREEK. 
 1862. Oct. 29. 
 
 
 907 >\f\ 
 
 Dec. 17 
 
 
 i KA 
 
 1863. April 24 
 
 
 
 VOLCANO. 
 
 1862. Oct. 21. Hook and Ladder Co. 
 Nov. 3. ... 
 
 S 10 .. 
 
 15 .. 
 
 Qfin 
 
 1863. March 4. Ball, Volcano Blues 
 
 
 102 50 
 
 
 
 
 Total 
 
 $10 
 
 jtQQn^ AO 
 
 
 
 
BUTTE COUNTY. 
 
 
 11 
 
 BUTTE COUNTY. 
 
 BUTTE VALLEY. 
 1863. Sept. 16. Polls 
 
 CURRENCY. 
 
 COIN. 
 $74 
 
 CHEROKEE. 
 
 1863. Sept. 14. Polls 
 
 
 33 
 
 CHICO. 
 
 1863. Oct. 23. Polls 
 
 
 66 40 
 
 FORBESTOWN. 
 1862. Dee. 16 
 
 $200 
 
 250 .. 
 
 1864. May 20. . 
 
 
 329 
 
 MORRIS RAVINE. 
 1863. Feb. 5 
 
 
 108 .. 
 
 OROVILLE. 
 1862. Dec. 3 
 
 
 584 50 
 
 1863 Feb. 5. 
 
 80 .. 
 
 84 .. 
 
 May 20. 
 
 
 50 .. 
 
 
 64 .. 
 
 70 .. 
 
 An". 12. . 
 
 1 .. 
 
 158 50 
 
 Sept. 7 
 
 
 431 75 
 
 Dec. 1. 
 
 5 .. 
 
 272 80 
 
 1864 Feb 2. , 
 
 
 72 . . 
 
 COUNTY AT LARGE. 
 
 1863 Sept. 14. Various Polls 
 
 
 257 .. 
 
 
 
 
 Total 
 
 S350 .. 
 
 $2840 95 
 
 CALAVERAS COUNTY. 
 
 ANGEL'S CAMP. 
 
 1863 Sept 4. Polls 
 
 
 $ 65 10 
 
 CAMANCHE. 
 1863 Nov 5. 
 
 
 11 10 
 
 CAMPO SECO. 
 
 186 9 Oct. 20. 
 
 $ 15 .. 
 
 535 .. 
 
 Dec 11. 
 
 
 15 .. 
 
 1863 Sept 5 Polls 
 
 
 69 10 
 
 Oct 26 Polls 
 
 
 27 .. 
 
 Nov. 27 
 
 
 100 .. 
 
 
 
 
12 CALAVERAS COUNTY. 
 
 
 
 CHILI. 
 
 1 Qfi9 Ort 93 
 
 CURRENCY. 
 
 COIN. 
 
 $100 50 
 
 j^ ov 7 
 
 
 144 . . 
 
 COPPEROPOLIS. 
 
 1 Kfi9 Or*t 8 
 
 
 520 .. 
 
 Ort 25 
 
 
 313 50 
 
 Dec 17 
 
 
 220 .. 
 
 1863 Feb 25. 
 
 
 15 . . 
 
 Sept 7 Polls 
 
 
 128 .. 
 
 Oct 26 Polls 
 
 
 6 25 
 
 D ec 9 
 
 
 303 .. 
 
 JENNY LIND. 
 
 IQCO Nov 10 
 
 
 125 .. 
 
 1863 Jan 21 
 
 & 20 . 
 
 7 50 
 
 MOKELUMNE HILL. 
 1862 Oct 23. 
 
 
 117 
 
 Dec 16. 
 
 50 
 
 950 
 
 Dec 17. 
 
 
 35 
 
 Dec. 17. Calaveras River District. 
 1863 Sept 17 Polls 
 
 
 30 .. 
 304 80 
 
 MURPHY'S. 
 
 1863 Sept 16. Polls 
 
 
 59 50 
 
 1864 June 8. 
 
 
 154 
 
 July 9. Ball and Supper 
 
 
 541 25 
 
 ROBINSON'S FERRY. 
 
 1863 July 6. 
 
 
 282 .. 
 
 Sept. 16. Polls 
 
 
 15 35 
 
 SAN ANDREAS AND GREASERTOWN. 
 1862 Sept. 22. 
 
 
 404 
 
 Oct 9. . . 
 
 
 1000 
 
 Oct. 20 
 
 
 87 
 
 ^ov. 12 
 
 
 80 
 
 Dec. 10 
 
 
 431 
 
 1863. Sept. 17. Polls 5th & 10th townships 
 Dec. 2 
 
 
 246 .. 
 22 
 
 SIX MILE BAR. 
 
 1863. Sept. 10. Polls 8th township 
 
 
 10 
 
 VALLECITO. 
 
 1862. Oct. 10 
 
 
 403 50 
 
 1863. Sept. 8. Polls 
 
 
 55 50 
 
 
 
 
 Total 
 
 S85 
 
 $7932 95 
 
 
 
 
COLUSA COUNTY. 13 
 
 1863. 
 1863. 
 
 1863. 
 
 c 
 
 1863. 
 1863. 
 
 1863. 
 1864. 
 
 1863. 
 
 1864. 
 
 1862. 
 1863. 
 1864. 
 
 1863. 
 1863. 
 
 1864. 
 
 COLUSA COUNTY. 
 
 COLUSA. 
 
 Oct. 2. Polls 
 
 rrUREXCY. 
 
 COIN. 
 
 SS43 75 
 79 . . 
 
 275 .. 
 
 PRINCETON. 
 Oct. 20. Polls 
 
 COUNTY AT LARGE. 
 Jan 8. 
 
 Total 
 
 
 S397'75 
 
 ONTRA COSTA COUNTY. 
 
 ALAMO. 
 Sept 5. Polls 
 
 S 10 .. 
 
 2 .. 
 5 .. 
 
 1 .. 
 
 5 .. 
 
 18 .. 
 
 $14 . . 
 
 29 60 
 5 .. 
 
 125 05 
 15 .. 
 33 60 
 29 .. 
 
 45 75 
 20 .. 
 
 100 .. 
 108 50 
 105 .. 
 
 160 35 
 
 105 .. 
 160 .. 
 
 46 50 
 
 ANTIOCH. 
 Sept 4. Polls 
 
 Sept. 9. Union man's bet 
 
 CLAYTON. 
 Sept. 4. Polls 
 
 Oct 26 Polls 
 
 Mch 31. Union League 
 
 
 MARTINEZ. 
 Sept 5 Polls 
 
 Oct. 26. Polls, Pinole precinct. . . . 
 
 PACHECO. 
 
 Sept 20. 
 
 Sept 4. Polls 
 
 \pril i 
 
 SAN PABLO. 
 Sept. 4. 
 
 SOMERSVILLE. 
 Sept. 7. Polls 
 
 Dee iy 
 
 WALNUT CREEK. 
 j an 11 
 
 
14 
 
 COXTRA COSTA COUNTY 
 
 
 
 
 1862. 
 
 COUNTY AT LARGE. 
 Oct. 29. 
 
 CURRKNCY. 
 
 COIN. 
 
 $1282 50 
 
 1863. 
 
 Feb. 17. By O. C. Coffin 
 Anril 28. Do. 
 
 $565 .. 
 
 207 .. 
 325 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Total 
 
 $601 
 
 82916 85 
 
 
 
 
 
 1864. 
 
 DEL NORTE COUNTY. 
 
 CRESCENT CITY. 
 
 May 7. Volunteers 
 
 $ SO .. 
 
 
 1862. 
 
 HAPPY CAMP. 
 Dec. 16 
 
 
 $195 .. 
 
 1862. 
 
 COUNTY AT LARGE. 
 Oct. 29 
 
 
 936 . 
 
 1863. 
 
 Oct. 28 
 
 15 .. 
 
 138 60 
 
 
 Dec. 22 
 
 58 .. 
 
 49 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Total 
 
 $103 .. 
 
 $1318 60 
 
 1862. 
 
 EL DORADO COUNTY. 
 
 COLOMA. 
 Nov. 13 
 
 $ 15 .. 
 
 $1031 50 
 
 1863. 
 
 Sept. 8. Polls 
 
 
 ] 1 
 
 1862. 
 
 EL DORADO. 
 Oct. 29 
 
 
 541 75 
 
 
 Nov. 20 
 
 5 
 
 60 
 
 
 Nov. 20. Spanish Camp, &c. . . 
 
 
 179 50 
 
 1863. 
 
 Jan. 13 
 
 
 10 
 
 
 March 5. Spanish Camp. 
 
 
 48 
 
 1862. 
 
 FAIRPLAY. 
 Nov. 20 
 
 
 107 50 
 
 1862. 
 
 GEORGETOWN. 
 Sept. 23 
 
 
 200 
 
 
 Nov. 3 
 
 
 on F.A 
 
 1863. 
 
 Sept. 5. Polls 
 
 
 62 
 
 
 Sept. 5. Polls, Volcanoville . 
 
 
 50 
 
 1864. 
 
 March 2. Ladies 
 
 I 
 
 300 75 
 
 1862. 
 
 GREENWOOD. 
 Nov. 7 
 
 
 i (>^\ 
 
 
 Nov. 8. ... 
 
 
 1 1\ i x.r\ 
 
 
 
 
 
EL DORADO COUNTY. 
 
 
 15 
 
 KELSEY. 
 18C2. Dec. 4 
 
 CUKKKNCY 
 
 conr. 
 
 $400 
 
 NEWTOWN. 
 
 1863. Jan. 14 
 
 S 30 
 
 83 75 
 
 PILOT HILL (CENTREVILLE). 
 1862. Nov. 13 
 
 
 >02 75 
 
 1863. Sept. 4. Polls . . . 
 
 
 23 
 
 PLACER VILLE.- 
 
 18C2. Oct. 20 
 
 
 3517 70 
 
 Nov. 20 
 
 680 .. 
 
 1251 80 
 
 Nov. 20. P. & Sac. Road 
 
 
 172 50 
 
 1863. Jan. 14 
 
 395 .. 
 
 115 50 
 
 Jan. 14. Pleasant Valley 
 
 
 90 ... 
 
 April 28 
 
 145 .. 
 
 10 .. 
 
 Sept. 11. Polls, Upper Placerville .. 
 Sept. 1 7. Various Polls 
 
 113 .. 
 
 112 25 
 84 50 
 
 ^ov. 30 
 
 
 59 25 
 
 1864. Jan. 21. Ladies' Festival 
 
 13 .. 
 
 1462 25 
 
 RED HILL. 
 1862. Oct. 1C 
 
 
 158 50 
 
 1864. Jan. 28 
 
 
 70 .. 
 
 STRAWBERRY VALLEY. 
 1863. June 13 
 
 
 108 .. 
 
 DNIONTOWN. 
 
 1862. Oct. 17 
 
 
 1000 .. 
 
 
 
 
 Total 
 
 S1396 .. 
 
 11886 75 
 
 HUMBOLDT COUNTY. 
 
 ARCATA. 
 1863. Feb. 5. 
 
 
 $269 50 
 
 1864. July 25. Festival, July 4th 
 
 $456 .. 
 
 
 EUREKA. 
 1862. Dec. 6 
 
 
 200 . . 
 
 1868. Feb. 5 
 
 
 5478 50 
 
 Oct. 5. Polls 
 
 4 .. 
 
 10 .. 
 
 1864. Feb. 24. 
 
 
 1164 60 
 
 
 
 
 Total 
 
 $460 .. 
 
 $7122 60 
 
 
 
 
16 KLAMATH COUNTY. 
 
 
 
 KLAMATH COUNTY. 
 
 FORKS OF SALMON. 
 1868. May 20. (Via Yreka) 
 
 CUKEKXCY. 
 
 COIN. 
 
 $ 43 50 
 
 LOS ANGELES COUNTY. 
 
 FORT TEJON. 
 
 1863 Oct 3*1. 
 
 $ 15 
 
 
 LOS ANGELES. 
 1862 Oct. 7. .- 
 
 380 
 
 $118 
 
 1863. June 17 ' 
 
 80 
 
 9 
 
 NEW SAN PEDRO (WILMINGTON). 
 1863 Jan. 16. 
 
 695 
 
 I 
 
 
 
 
 Total 
 
 $1170 
 
 ^139 
 
 
 
 
 MARIN COUNTY. 
 
 BOL1NAS. 
 
 1863. Sept. 4. Polls 
 
 
 $ 7 .. 
 
 SAN QUENTIN. 
 1863. Dec. 8. Attaches State Prison 
 1864. July 6 m. . . . 
 
 $406 . . 
 1330 
 
 
 TOMALES. 
 1864. Jan. 30 
 
 
 40 
 
 
 
 
 Total 
 
 $1736 
 
 $47 
 
 
 
 
 MARIPOSA COUNTY. 
 
 BEAR VALLEY. 
 1863. Oct. 10. Polls 
 
 
 $ 31 55 
 
 COULTERVILLE. 
 1863. July 8 
 
 $ 27 
 
 243 50 
 
 Sept. 8. . 
 
 
 32 
 
 MARIPOSA. 
 1862. Nov. 22. 
 
 
 137 
 
 1864. Feb. 12. ... 
 
 40 
 
 1254 
 
 
 
 
MAHIPOSA COrXTY. 
 
 
 
 MARTPOSA ESTATE. 
 
 Anril ti. . 
 
 COUNTY AT LARGE. 
 
 Oct. 22. . 
 
 Total . 
 
 
 MENDOCINO COUNTY. 
 
 XOYO MILLS. 
 
 ,Mav 2. . 
 
 URIAH. 
 Nov. 3. 
 
 CURRENCY. COIN. 
 
 1GCC 50 
 749 50 
 
 $7 . 
 
 84114 05 
 
 S472 
 
 115 
 
 1862. 
 1864. 
 
 COUNTY AT LARGE. 
 
 Oct. 20 .............. 
 
 Jan. 18. Ladies' Fair. 
 
 Total . 
 
 1863. 
 
 1863. 
 
 1863. 
 
 1864. 
 
 MONTEREY COUNTY. 
 
 MONTEREY. 
 
 Sept. 16. Polls ............ 
 
 XATIVIDAD. 
 Oct. 27. Polls 
 
 SAN JUAN. 
 
 Jan. 22. By Flint, Bixby & Co . 
 Oct. 24. Polls . . 
 
 COUNTY AT LARGE. 
 June 1 .............. 
 
 8 .............. 
 
 Total . 
 
 1862. 
 1863. 
 
 NAPA COUNTY. 
 
 NAPA CITY. 
 
 Oct. 20 ................ 
 
 Sept. 19. Polls, &c ...... 
 
 Nov. 28. Thanksgiving. . 
 
 Total. 
 
 1588 50 
 310 .. 
 
 2486 . 
 
 S 5 . 
 
 350 . 
 
 S 17 75 
 
 112 50 
 26 15 
 
 490 .. 41 50 
 
 21 . 24 50 
 
 S866 . . I S222 40 
 
 S165 .. 
 
 S1500 .. 
 210 17 
 50 . 
 
 165 .. S1760 17 
 
NEVADA COrXTY. 
 
 NEVADA COUNTY. 
 
 BRIDGEPORT. 
 1864. July 12. Festival, July 4th ; S1000 
 
 BIRCHVILLE. 
 
 1862. Nov. 24 | 700 
 
 1863. Jan. 15. Ladies ! 140 
 
 May 11. Ladies. 
 
 CHALK BLUFF. 
 
 1862. Nov. 8 127 50 
 
 FRENCH CORRAL. 
 
 1863. Sept. 21. Polls 10650 
 
 GRASS VALLEY. 
 
 1862. Nov. 12 ; , 5200 
 
 1863. April 1 9 o 7 ?P 
 
 Dec. g ' " ' "j * 
 
 1864. May 10 ' ' 
 
 July 16. Ball, July 4th ...'.' 
 
 MOORE'S FLAT. 
 1864. May 26 
 
 NEVADA CITY. 
 
 1863. Feb. 25 
 
 1864. Jan. 15. Colored persons and others 99 95 
 
 May 24 ; s 3 _ 1597 
 
 May 24. Colored persons. 
 
 NORTH SAN JUAN. 
 
 1862. Sept. 23 
 
 Dec. 6 , 
 
 Dec. 6. Lodge No. 67, I. O. O. F. ' 
 Dec. 12. Manzanita Lodge, F. A.M. i 
 
 1863. Sept. 10. Polls.... 
 
 Nov. 24. Social Circle '. 
 
 Nov. 30. Thanksgiving, M. E. Ch 
 
 Dec' 2l' Thanks ' Lvin S Bal1 5 . . 308 61 
 
 RED DOG. 
 
 Oct. 22 520 
 
 SWEETLAND. 
 
 3863. Jan. 21. . , a , 
 
 loo . , 
 
NEVADA COUNTY. 
 
 19 
 
 YOU BET. 
 1862. Dec. 3. 
 
 COUNTY AT LARGE. 
 
 1863. Sept. 21. Various Polls. 
 
 Total 
 
 eCRUKXCY. COIS- 
 
 2-11 L'.'J 
 
 522 35 
 
 814 ..<16123 96 
 
 1862. 
 1863. 
 
 PLACER COUNTY. 
 
 AUBURN. 
 
 Dec. 2. Currency draft j $1270 12 
 
 Sept. 10 
 
 Oct. 5. Polls . . 
 
 AUBURN STATION. 
 1863. Feb. 10. . 
 
 DUTCH FLAT. 
 
 1862. Oct. 27 
 
 Nov. 24 
 
 1863. March 7 
 
 May 18 
 
 1864. May 14. Polls, Sept. 1863 
 
 GOLD RUN (MOUNTAIN SPRINGS). 
 
 1862. Nov. 12. Relief Society 
 
 Dec. 12. Do. 
 
 1863. Jan. 17. Do. 
 
 Feb. 16. Do. 
 
 May 11. Do. 
 
 Nov. 25. Do. 
 
 ILLINOISTOWN. 
 
 1863. Nov. 16 
 
 IOWA HILL. 
 
 1862. Oct. 10 
 
 Dec. 20 
 
 1864. Mch. 17. Ladies' Festival . 
 
 LINCOLN. 
 
 1863. Sept. 5. Polls 
 Oct. 27 
 
 MICHIGAN BLUFF. 
 
 1862. Oct. 29 
 
 No . 29 
 
 1863. Feb. 20. Bath 
 
 $121 70 
 75 . 
 
 40 
 
 1035 .. 
 
 130 .. 
 
 7 50 
 
 876 50 
 
 112 . 
 
 108 50 
 75 .. 
 65 50 
 44 .. 
 
 148 50 
 30 . 
 
 5 90 
 
 250 .. 
 125 .. 
 524 75 
 
 26 
 
 70 
 
 844 25 
 133 25 
 140 . 
 
20 PLACER COUNTY. 
 
 . CURRENCY. 
 
 MICHIGAN BLUFF (Continued). 
 1861 Fob 1 Lei^t Chance I 
 
 COIN. 
 
 20 .. 
 50 . . 
 43 .. 
 42 .. 
 28 .. 
 33 .. 
 
 .00 25 
 
 
 A-nril 1 9 Do 
 
 May 1 Do 
 
 
 July 20 Do 
 
 TODD'S VALLEY (KNOXVILLE). 
 1864 June 14 Miners' Meeting '> 
 
 
 Total !| S127 
 
 $5253 60 
 
 PLUMAS COUNTY. 
 
 MARION FLAT (LONGVILLE). 
 
 1864 Mch ' ? 7 Gold dust, value .... 
 
 $135 . . 
 
 2S8 . . 
 50 . . 
 
 297 50 
 100 . . 
 242 . . 
 
 105 . . 
 36 . . 
 
 NELSON POINT. 
 
 1862 Oct 29. ii 
 
 1863 Sept 11 i 
 
 QUINCY. 
 
 186 9 Nov 22. 17 oz. fold dust . . . 
 
 1863 Sept. 26. Polls 
 
 1864. June 11 $ 12 . . 
 
 SPANISH RANCH. 
 1863 Dec. 10. 
 
 TAYLORVILLE. 
 
 1863. Sept. 21. Polls ' 
 
 
 Total $12 .. 
 
 $1233 50 
 
 SACRAMENTO COUNTY. 
 
 FOLSOM. 
 1862. Oct. 29 $300 
 
 $1200 . . 
 
 15 
 10 . . 
 130 .. 
 41 50 
 50 .. 
 50 .. 
 
 85 .. 
 
 Nov. 11 10 
 
 Dec. 19 
 
 1863. ,fan. 30 | 
 Sept. 7 Polls 
 
 Oct. 23 Polls 
 
 1862. Nov. 1 1 Natoma W. & M. Co. . . 
 
 Dec. 19 Do. i 
 
 1863. Jan. 30 Do. j 50 . . 
 March 20 Do. M 15 .. 
 
 
SACRAMENTO COUNTY. 
 
 
 21 
 
 FOLSOM (Continued). 
 June 4 Natoma W. & M. Co 
 
 CURRENCY. 
 $100 .. 
 
 COIN. 
 
 Sept 29 Do. 
 
 200 
 
 
 Dec. 22 Do. 
 
 150 .. 
 
 
 1864 March 2 Do. 
 
 100 .. 
 
 
 Jrne 29 Do. 
 
 MICHIGAN BAR. 
 1863 Sept. 15 Polls 
 
 200 .. 
 
 S 30 . . 
 
 Sept. 1 5 Polls, Cook's Bar 
 
 
 13 75 
 
 MORMON ISLAND. 
 1862 Dec 10 
 
 
 91 . . 
 
 ONISBO. 
 1863 Sept. 8 Polls 
 
 
 34 20 
 
 SACRAMENTO CITY. 
 
 1863. March 21 Members of State Legis 
 lature 
 
 
 655 .. 
 
 March 21 Nevada Hose Co 
 
 
 25 .. 
 
 Mav 1 1 Do. 
 
 
 25 .. 
 
 Sept. 4 Polls 
 
 
 860 85 
 
 Oct. 14 Polls 
 
 
 221 60 
 
 Nov. 28 Cong. Ch. Thanksgiving. 
 Dec 1 Grace Church 
 
 
 114 75 
 100 .. 
 
 Dec. 15 African E. Church 
 
 
 15 .. 
 
 VIOLA. 
 1862 Nov 9 4 
 
 
 5 . . 
 
 WALNUT GROVE. 
 1862 Oct. 29 
 
 
 500 .. 
 
 1863 Sept 4 Polls 
 
 
 41 .. 
 
 1864 Feb. 11 
 
 
 42 50 
 
 
 
 
 Total 
 
 $1125 .. 
 
 S4521 15 
 
 SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY. 
 
 1864 Mav 16 Union League 
 
 $360 
 
 
 SAN DIEGO COUNTY. 
 
 1864 Jan 5 Geo McKinstrv, Jr. . . . 
 
 
 S 25 .. 
 
 
 
 
22 SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY. 
 
 SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY. 
 
 STOCKTON. 
 
 1864 Feb 18 Colored persons 
 
 CURRVNCV. 
 
 $ 9 .. 
 
 05 .. 
 189 .. 
 563 .. 
 
 COIN. 
 
 $ 10 .. 
 131 50 
 
 26 .. 
 423 75 
 10 70 
 
 Alav 14 Polls 
 
 COUNTY AT LARGE. 
 1 a/?Q ^ont- Tlv T" T? Anthonv 
 
 Sept 9 By C O Burton 
 
 Oct. 27 Do. Polls . . . 
 Total 
 
 $856 . . 
 
 $601 95 
 
 SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY. 
 
 PURISSIMA. 
 
 1863 Sept 5 Polls 
 
 
 $ 21 05 
 524 .. 
 
 COUNTY AT LARGE. 
 1862 Dec 2 By Alex. Murray 
 
 Total 
 
 
 $545 05 
 
 SAN MATEO COUNTY. 
 
 REDWOOD CITY. 
 
 1863. Sept. 5 Polls 
 
 $100 .. 
 
 $101 95 
 20 80 
 
 72 50 
 
 256 ... 
 59 60 
 33 .. 
 
 Nov. 23 Polls 
 
 SEARSVILLE. 
 1862. Nov. 1 
 
 WOODSIDE. 
 
 1862. Nov. 12 
 
 1863. Sept. 5 Polls 
 
 Dec. 24 Post Master 
 
 Total 
 
 $100 . . 
 
 $543 85 
 
 SANTA BARBARA COUNTY. 
 
 1864. Aug. 9 By Henry Games 
 
 
 $ 81 .. 
 
 . 
 
 
SANTA CLARA COUNTY. '2'->> 
 
 & 
 
 1863. 
 1863. 
 
 1862. 
 
 1863. 
 1864. 
 
 1863. 
 1864 
 
 1862. 
 1863. 
 
 1864. 
 
 
 1863. 
 
 1863. 
 
 1863. 
 
 1862. 
 1863. 
 
 kNTA CLARA COUNTY. 
 
 ALVISO. 
 Sept. 4 Polls 
 
 ' CURRENCY. 
 
 S 20 . . 
 
 540 .. 
 120 .. 
 90 ..' 
 220 .. 
 
 COIN'. 
 
 $ 35 .. 
 8 50 
 27 25 
 
 175 .. 
 45 ... 
 
 160 55 
 68 .. 
 
 30 . . 
 
 39 90 
 120 .. 
 170 .. 
 
 6466 85 
 945 . . 
 136 75 
 195 .. 
 
 GILROY. 
 Sept. 4 Polls 
 
 MAYFIELD. 
 Sept. 4 Polls 
 
 MOUNTAIN VIEW. 
 Oct. 23 Ball, Oct. 17 .... 
 
 Oct. 23 Contributions 
 
 SAN JOSE. 
 Oct. 22 Polls 
 
 Nov. 28 Rev. O. B. Stone's Church 
 Aug. 6 School House Party 
 
 SANTA CLARA. 
 Aug. 10 M. E. Church 
 
 Sept. 5 Polls 
 
 Feb. 12 . . . 
 
 COUNTY AT LARGE. 
 Nov. 20 By Elliott Reed 
 
 Jan. 21 Do. i 
 
 Sept. 14 Do. 
 
 July 23 Do. 
 
 Total 
 
 $990 .. 
 
 $8622 80 
 
 ;ANTA CRUZ COUNTY. 
 
 PESCADERO. 
 Jan. 7 
 
 $ 65 .. 
 
 $110 .. 
 17 50 
 
 200 .. 
 90 1U 
 
 9 .. 
 
 2000 . . 
 500 .. 
 20 .. 
 
 March 19 
 
 SANTA CRUZ. 
 Alay 11 Charade Party 
 
 Sept. 4 Polls 
 
 SOQUEL. 
 Sept 14 Polls 
 
 WATSONVILLE. 
 Oct. 10 Pajaro Relief Fund Ass'n 
 Nov. 12 Do. 
 Sept 9 Polls .... 
 
 
24 SANTA CRUZ COUNTY. 
 
 COUNTY AT LARGE. 
 
 186^ Nov 20 
 
 (TKKKNCV. 
 $520 ... 
 
 COIN". 
 
 $1380 . . 
 
 Total 
 
 $585 . . 
 
 $4826 60 
 
 SHASTA COUNTY. 
 
 186 9 Oct 9 Bv Felix Tracv 
 
 
 
 1000 . . 
 500 . 
 401 .. 
 118 50 
 190 25 
 
 Oct 20 Do .... 
 
 JJ0V \ \)Q 
 
 1863 Sept 16 Do .... 
 
 D ec 12 Do. 
 
 Of this amount there was contributed by 
 Churntown $92 50 
 
 $2209 75 
 
 French Gulch 173 00 
 
 938 62 
 
 Vurman'g Mill 20 00 
 
 
 Millville 202 50 
 
 Shasta, ic 1,512 50 
 
 \\ Inskey Creek 192 50 
 
 T tui $2,209 75 
 
 1864 March 1 Ladies' Count.v Ball 
 
 
 Total 
 
 $3148 37 
 
 SIERRA COUNTY. 
 
 ALLEGHANY AND CUMBERLAND. 
 1862. Dec. 3 
 
 $518 50 
 320 50 
 
 50 . . 
 36 . . 
 
 200 .. 
 132 .. 
 
 185 . . 
 180 .. 
 71 .. 
 
 COLD CANON. 
 
 1862. Nov. 8 
 
 DOWNIEVILLE. 
 
 1863. June 27 
 
 Nov. 20 Polls 
 
 FOREST CITY. 
 1862. Deo. 3 
 
 GOODYEAR'S BAR. 
 
 1862. Dec. 18 . . . 
 
 LA PORTE. 
 1863. Mav 11 
 
 July 13 
 
 Nov. 18 
 
 
SIERRA COUNTY. 
 
 
 25 
 
 PORT WINE. 
 1863. May 9 
 
 CURRENCY. 
 
 COIX. 
 
 $366 
 
 SIERRA VALLEY. 
 1863. Jan. 9 
 
 
 128 50 
 
 COUNTY AT LARGE. 
 
 1862. Nov. 11 
 
 
 2924 75 
 
 1863. Oct. 5 
 
 
 915 80 
 
 
 
 
 Total 
 
 
 $6028 05 
 
 
 
 
 SISKIYOU COUNTY. 
 
 1862. Oct. 22 By E. Wadsworth 
 
 
 $4000 .. 
 
 Nov. 4 Do. .... 
 
 
 1500 .. 
 
 Dec. 1 Do. 
 
 8 40 .. 
 
 768 50 
 
 1863. Feb 25 Do. 
 
 
 77 50 
 
 May 20 Do. 
 
 
 67 50 
 
 Sept 1 Do. 
 
 20 .. 
 
 53 30 
 
 Sept 14 Do. 
 
 
 180 38 
 
 1864. Mch. 8 Do. 
 
 20 .. 
 
 1324 75 
 
 Aprill3 Do 
 
 35 .. 
 
 540 .. 
 
 July 13 Do. 
 
 60 .. 
 
 847 20 
 
 
 
 
 Total 
 
 $175 .. 
 
 $9359 13 
 
 SOLANO COUNTY. 
 
 BENICIA. 
 1862. Dec. 20 
 
 $860 .. 
 
 
 
 $1140 .. 
 
 1863 Jan. 5 
 
 600 .. 
 
 285 50 
 
 Sept. 8 Polls 
 
 45 .. 
 
 155 40 
 
 Dec 15 St Paul's Church 
 
 8 .. 
 
 117 .. 
 
 1864 May 27 . . 
 
 116 .. 
 
 
 DENVERTON. 
 1863. Mch. 19 
 
 
 35 .. 
 
 Sept. 11 
 
 
 85 .. 
 
 MAINE PRAIRIE. 
 1862 Nov 22 . 
 
 25 .. 
 
 162 . 
 
 1863 Sept 11 Polls . ... 
 
 
 33 25 
 
 Sept 23 
 
 
 42 25 
 
 RIO VISTA. 
 1863 Jan 20 
 
 
 34 50 
 
 Sept 1 1 Polls 
 
 
 20 .. 
 
 4 
 
 
 
26 
 
 SOLANO COUNTY. 
 
 1862. 
 1863. 
 
 1864. 
 1863. 
 
 1863. 
 1862. 
 
 1863. 
 
 1863. 
 1864. 
 
 1862. 
 1863. 
 
 1863. 
 
 1862. 
 1864 
 
 1863 
 1864 
 
 SUISUN CITY. 
 Orf 1 
 
 CURRENCY, 
 
 215 .. 
 15 .. 
 11 .. 
 150 .. 
 3 .. 
 
 60 .. 
 17 .. 
 
 COIN. 
 
 555 .. 
 169 .. 
 65 75 
 108 50 
 
 19 80 
 
 17 45 
 
 20 .. 
 
 4 25 
 
 100 .. 
 1740 .. 
 
 43 50 
 83 45 
 
 jj ov 20 
 
 Tulv 30 Union Convention .... 
 
 Sept 11 Polls 
 
 j) ec 17 
 
 Mph 24 
 
 TREMONT. 
 
 Spnt 1 1 Polls No. 2 . 
 
 Nov 7 Polls No 1 
 
 VACAVILLE. 
 Sept 11 Polls 
 
 VALLEJO. 
 Oct. 15 Hook and Ladder Co 
 Oct 29 Navy Yard 
 
 Dec. 26 Navy Yard, Journeymen 
 Painters 
 
 Sept 4 Polls 
 
 Total 
 
 $2125 .. 
 
 $5036 60 
 
 SONOMA COUNTY. 
 
 ' BLOOMFIELD. 
 Feb 26 
 
 5 . 
 
 338 50 
 626 75 
 
 122 .. 
 10 .. 
 
 20 .. 
 
 1C .. 
 11 . . 
 
 5 .. 
 
 520 50 
 1 25 
 110 .. 
 
 Jan. 13 
 
 BODEGA. 
 Dec. 17 
 
 March 2 
 
 CLOVERDALE. 
 
 Sept. 14 Polls 
 
 GEYSERVILLE. 
 Oct. 29 
 
 Oct. 30 
 
 Jan. 20 
 
 July 2 
 
 HEALDSBURG. 
 Dec. 7 Ladies 
 
 June 25 
 
 Aug. 9 R. Hertel, to date 
 
 
SONOMA COUNTY. 27 
 
 PET ALUM A. 
 1862. Oct. 25 
 
 CURRENCY, 
 
 $ 10 .. 
 
 COIN. 
 
 82000 .. 
 37 . . 
 252 50 
 130 .. 
 
 28 25 
 
 108 50 
 22 .. 
 
 1863 April 9 
 
 Xov. 28 Promenade Concert .... 
 
 Dec. 1 Union Meeting 
 
 SANTA ROSA. 
 
 1864 April 20 
 
 July 25 ' Growlers." 
 
 SONOMA. 
 1862 Nov. 24 
 
 1863 Sept 4 Polls 
 
 Total 
 
 S15 .. ! $4359 25 
 
 STANISLAUS COUNTY. 
 
 KNIGHT S FERRY. 
 1862 Oct 29 
 
 $ 10 .. 
 25 .. 
 
 S525 75 
 13 50 
 41 20 
 9 20 
 319 .. 
 10 .. 
 
 
 13 .. 
 
 1863 Au" 22 
 
 Sept 10 Polls 
 
 Dec 16 Polls various 
 
 1864 Jan 20 
 
 June 16 
 
 *LA GRANGE. 
 1863 Sept 2 9 
 
 Total 
 
 S35 .. 
 
 S931 65 
 
 SUTTER COUNTY. 
 
 MATES' PRECINCT. 
 1862 Nov 15 
 
 f 
 
 $ 25 .. 
 
 $200 .. 
 28 .. 
 375 .. 
 600 .. 
 
 WEST BUTTE PRECINCT. 
 1 863 Oct 1 2 Polls 
 
 YUBA CITY. 
 1863 Jan 1 
 
 COUNTY AT LARGE. 
 1863 Feb 9 6 . 
 
 Total 
 
 S25 00 $1203 . . 
 
 
28 
 
 TEHAMA COUNTY. 
 
 
 
 186 9 
 
 TEHAMA COUNTY. 
 
 RED BLUFF. 
 Oct 10 ' 
 
 CURRENCY. 
 
 320 
 
 COIN. 
 
 780 25 
 
 1862 
 
 TEHAMA. 
 Nov. 15 
 
 
 64 50 
 
 1863 
 
 Sept. 7 Polls 
 
 
 81 
 
 
 Oct. 27 Polls \ . 
 
 
 18 25 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Total 
 
 | "ttqOA 
 
 $944 
 
 
 
 
 
 1862. 
 
 TRINITY COUNTY. 
 
 DOUGLAS CITY. 
 Oct. 25 
 
 
 300 
 
 1863. 
 
 Dec. 4 
 
 
 32 
 
 1864. 
 
 TRINITY CENTRE. 
 Feb. 12 
 
 
 72 50 
 
 1862. 
 
 WEAVERVILLE. 
 Oct. 27 
 
 
 2108 
 
 1863. 
 
 Sept. 15 Polls 
 
 
 53 
 
 
 Nov. 7 
 
 
 86 75 
 
 1862. 
 
 COUNTY AT LARGE. 
 Dec. 6 
 
 
 268 62 
 
 1863. 
 
 Jan. 8 
 
 
 136 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Total 
 
 
 $3056 87 
 
 
 
 
 
 1864. 
 1863. 
 
 TULARE COUNTY. 
 
 COSO MINING DISTRICT. 
 Jan. 7 Miners, Josephine Co .... 
 
 RUSS MINING DISTRICT. 
 
 April 2 Miners 
 
 
 130 .. 
 172 50 
 
 1862. 
 
 VISALIA. 
 
 Oct. 27 ... 
 
 
 
 1863. 
 
 Jan. 8 . . 
 
 105 
 
 95 
 
 
 Oct. 8 
 
 145 
 
 127 75 
 
 1864. 
 
 April 1 Ladies, Jan. 15th [.. 
 
 30 .. 
 
 
 
 Total 
 
 $280 .. 
 
 $700 25 
 
TUOLUMXE COUNTY. 
 
 29 
 
 TUOLUMNE COUNTY. 
 
 BIG OAK FLAT. 
 
 1864. June 30 Estate of Peter Stemmer. 
 
 ' CCRRENCYJ COIX. 
 
 8100 
 
 CHINESE CAMP. 
 1863. Sept. 5 Polls 
 
 COLUMBIA. 
 
 1862. Oct. 17 
 
 Nov. 13 
 
 Dec. 16 
 
 1863. Jan. 14 Tuolumne Engine Co .... 
 
 Jan. 14 
 
 Feb. 28 
 
 April 3 
 
 April 24 
 
 May 27 
 
 June 25 
 
 July 30 
 
 Sept. 2 
 
 Oct. 6 
 
 Oct. 8 Polls . .|t 
 
 Nov. 9 
 
 Dec. 7 
 
 1864. Jan. 7 
 
 Feb. 12 
 
 April 5 
 
 May 16 
 
 June 22 
 
 July 20 
 
 July 30 
 
 1863. April 13 Turner, Hurd & Co., 3 mos. 
 
 GAROTTE. 
 1862. Oct. 25 
 
 JAMESTOWN. 
 1862. Nov. 28 
 
 MONTEZUMA. 
 
 1862. Nov. 28 
 
 SHAW'S FLAT. 
 
 1862. Nov. 22 
 
 1863. Sept. 19 Polls 
 
 SONORA. 
 
 1862. Nov. 10 
 
 1863. Sept. 19 Polls 
 
 1864. July 26 
 
 S 22 10 
 
 417 .. 
 
 420 .. 
 
 425 .. 
 
 110 .. 
 
 425 .. 
 
 300 .. 
 
 300 .. 
 
 300 .. 
 
 300 .. 
 
 300 .. 
 
 266 .. 
 
 171 .. 
 
 174 .. 
 
 70 25 
 
 247 .. 
 
 104 .. 
 
 100 .. 
 81 50 
 80 .. 
 70 .. 
 
 101 .. 
 62 50 
 
 266 .. 
 
 36 . 
 
 50 . 
 
 100 
 
 500 ... 
 
 50 
 26 
 
 1066 75 
 72 .. 
 30 . 
 
30 
 
 TUOLUMNE COUNTY. 
 
 
 
 
 SUGAR PINE PRECINCT. 
 
 Ont 8 
 
 CURRENCY, 
 
 COIN. 
 
 $969 .. 
 
 
 COUNTY AT LARGE. 
 
 Oct 29 John Sanborn 
 
 
 1000 . . 
 
 lob 2. 
 1864. 
 
 Jan. 26 Do. to date 
 
 
 700 .. 
 
 
 Total 
 
 ' $150 . . 
 
 $9712 10 
 
 1 Sfi9 
 
 YOLO COUNTY. 
 
 CACHEVILLE. 
 X) ec 17 
 
 
 $ 35 
 
 IfifiS 
 
 JOSEPH'S PRECINCT. 
 Sept 5 Polls 
 
 
 36 50 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Total 
 
 
 $71 r )0 
 
 
 
 
 
 1864 
 
 YUBA COUNTY. 
 
 FREEMAN'S CROSSING. 
 
 Sept 10 
 
 
 $ 25 75 
 
 1863. 
 1864 
 
 MARYSVILLE. 
 Sept. 19 Ladies' Lint Association. . 
 April 2 Polls 
 
 $ 40 .. 
 
 110 .. 
 100 
 
 1863 
 
 COUNTY AT LARGE. 
 
 Sept. 1 9 Various Polls 
 
 
 941 49 
 
 
 Nov. 11 
 
 10 
 
 274 50 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Total 
 
 $50 
 
 $1451 74 
 
 
 
 
 
 1862. 
 
 NEVADA TERRITORY. 
 
 AURORA. 
 Nov. 24 
 
 
 $ 78 .. 
 
 1863. 
 
 Mch. 13 Lady Washington Society. 
 April 21 Do. Do. Do. 
 Oct. 5 
 
 
 500 .. 
 175 .. 
 18 .. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Total 
 
 
 $771 .. 
 
 
 
 
 
OREGON. 
 
 
 31 
 
 OREGON. 
 
 COOSE BAY. 
 1862. Nov. 15 . . 
 
 CURRENCY. 
 
 5610 .. 
 
 COIN. 
 
 $403 .. 
 
 1864. June 17 
 
 
 50 .. 
 
 PORTLAND. 
 1864. June 8 
 
 93 .. 
 
 
 UMATILLA. 
 
 1864 May 20 Gold dust value 
 
 
 78 .. 
 
 STATE AT LARGE. 
 1862. Nov. 28. A. B. McElwaine 
 
 
 50 .. 
 
 
 
 
 Total 
 
 3703 .. 
 
 $581 .. 
 
 WASHINGTON TERRITORY. 
 
 WALLA WALLA. 
 
 1864. May 20. Gold dust, value 
 
 
 53 18 
 
 WHATCOM COUNTY. 
 1863. Oct. 23. By Sinclair & Moody 
 
 
 350 .. 
 
 TERRITORY AT LARGE. 
 1862. Nov. 24 
 
 490 .. 
 
 2204 35 
 
 1863. Sept. 29. Edward Watkins 
 
 11 .. 
 
 
 
 
 
 Total 
 
 $501 .. 
 
 82607 53 
 
 
 
 
 PACIFIC COAST AT LARGE. 
 
 Particular Donors Unknown. 
 
 1862 Oct 1 
 
 10 .. 
 
 
 Oct. 20 Employees of Wells, Fargo 
 & Co ! 
 
 
 82322 30 
 
 Oct 29 Pokerville 
 
 
 200 .. 
 
 
 
 32 50 
 
 Nov. 20 (Cacheville.Yolo County).. 
 1863 April 24 . 
 
 
 141 50 
 10 .. 
 
 5 
 
 
 
32 
 
 PACIFIC COAST AT LARGE. 
 
 1863. 
 1864. 
 
 PACIFIC COAST AT LAEGE. 
 (Continued.) 
 Jnlv 21 
 
 $ 10 .. 
 15 .. 
 
 $ 25 .. 
 20 .. 
 
 17 .. 
 20 .. 
 1 .. 
 2 .. 
 50 .. 
 5 .. 
 10 .. 
 5 .. 
 3 .. 
 
 Ort 27 
 
 ?Jov 5 
 
 -NT OV 11 
 
 j^ ov 14 
 
 TSTov 27 
 
 jr e k i 
 
 F e b 26 
 
 Mph 1 
 
 Mch 8. 
 
 
 J u ly 1 
 
 Total.. 
 
 S 35 . 
 
 2864 30 
 
 CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO, 
 
 1862. 
 
 1863. 
 
 1864. 
 
 September (13 to 30th) . 
 
 October 
 
 November 
 
 December , 
 
 January. . . 
 Eebruary . 
 March .... 
 
 April 
 
 May 
 
 June 
 
 July 
 
 August . . . 
 September 
 October. . . 
 November 
 December . 
 
 January 
 
 February 
 
 March , 
 
 April 
 
 May , 
 
 June 
 
 July 
 
 August (1st to 13th) 
 
 Total. 
 
 CURRENCY. 
 
 $ 8,000 00 
 
 10,515 00 
 
 6,080 00 
 
 1,405 00 
 
 774 00 
 201 00 
 190 00 
 180 00 
 555 00 
 333 00 
 585 00 
 185 00 
 108 00 
 290 00 
 7,471 00 
 17,006 50 
 
 1,992 00 
 
 1,054 00 
 
 2,907 00 
 
 425 00 
 
 1,194 00 
 
 1,378 00 
 
 596 00 
 
 236 00 
 
 $63,660 50 
 
 COIN. 
 
 $148,599 09 
 
 20,809 22 
 
 6,747 25 
 
 6,569 83 
 
 3,577 80 
 
 2,131 75 
 
 1,828 00 
 
 1,221 50 
 
 2,444 25 
 
 1,656 50 
 
 1,690 25 
 
 1,632 00 
 
 6,077 05 
 
 1,564 40 
 
 23,263 17 
 
 26,698 27 
 
 14,069 77 
 
 7,334 67 
 
 8,533 89 
 
 3,189 50 
 
 15,923 62 
 
 9,666 07 
 
 5,459 62 
 
 2,123 12 
 
 $322,810 59 
 
RECAPITULATION OF RECEIPTS. 
 
 CALIFORNIA, by counties, viz : 
 4.1auieda 
 
 CURRENCY. 
 
 8270 00| 
 10 001 
 350 00 
 85 OOJ 
 
 601 00 
 103 00 
 1,396 00 
 460 00 
 
 1.170 00 
 1,736 00 
 67 00 
 
 866 00 
 165 00 
 14 00 
 1,275 12 
 12 00 
 1,125 00 
 360 00 
 
 856 00 
 100 00 
 
 990 00 
 585^00 
 
 175 00 
 2,125 00 
 15 00 
 35 00 
 25 00 
 320 00 
 
 280 00 
 150 00 
 
 50 00 
 
 COIN. 
 
 810,718 25 
 3,994 02 
 2,840 95 
 7,932 95 
 397 75 
 2,916 85 
 1,318 60 
 11,886 75 
 7,122 60 
 43 50 
 139 00 
 47 00 
 4,114 05 
 2,486 00 
 222 40 
 1,760 17 
 16,123 96 
 5,253 60 
 1,233 50 
 4,521 15 
 
 25 00 
 601 95 
 545 05 
 543 85 
 81 00 
 8,622 80 
 4,326 60 
 3,148 37 
 6,028 05 
 9,359 13 
 5,036 60 
 4,359 25 
 931 65 
 1,203 00 
 944 00 
 3.056 87 
 700 25 
 9,712 10 
 71 50 
 1,451 74 
 
 Amador 
 
 Butte 
 
 Calaveras 
 
 Colusa 
 
 Contra Costa 
 
 Del Xorte 
 
 YA Dorado 
 
 TTumboldt 
 
 Klamath 
 
 Los Angeles 
 
 Marin 
 
 Mariposa 
 
 Mendocino 
 
 Monterey 
 
 Xapa . . 
 
 Nevada 
 
 Placer 
 
 Plumas 
 
 Sacramento . . . 
 
 San Bernardino 
 
 San Die^o 
 
 San Joaquin . . 
 
 San Luis Obispo 
 
 San Mateo 
 
 Santa Barbara : 
 
 Santa Clara 
 
 Santa Cruz .... 
 
 Shasta 
 
 Sierra 
 
 Siskivou 
 
 Solauo 
 
 Sonoma 
 
 Stanislaus ... . 
 
 Sutter 
 
 Tehama 
 
 Trinity 
 
 Tulare 
 
 Tuolumne 
 
 Yolo 
 
 Yuba 
 
 Total from the Interior 
 
 15,771 12 
 63,660 50 
 
 145,821 81 
 322,810 59 
 
 SAX FRANCISCO 
 
 Total from California 
 
 79,431 62 
 
 468,632 40 
 
 
34 
 
 RECAPITULATION. 
 
 CURRENCY. 
 
 Amount brought forward | {$ 79,431 62 468,632 40 
 
 NEVADA TERRITORY 77 1 00 
 
 OREGON II 703 00 1 f>81 00 
 
 WASHINGTON TERRITORY 
 
 DONORS UNKNOWN 
 
 501 00 2,607 53 
 
 35 00 
 
 2,864 30 
 
 Total from the Pacific Coast . . . 
 
 Of the total collections in currency, there 
 was sold, at different times, (see state 
 ment below) the sum of 
 
 at a discount amounting to $16,691.93.. . 
 
 Leaving net proceeds in coin 
 
 80,670 62; 475,456 23 
 
 67,588 00 
 
 Total amount subject to disbursement. . . . $13,082 62 
 
 50,896 07 
 
 526,352 30 
 
 Statement of Currency converted into Coin, 
 
 1862. 
 September 
 
 AM'NT SOLD. 
 
 5,525 00 
 15,155 00 
 10,325 00 
 2,985 00 
 
 1,405 00 
 8,439 00 
 306 00 
 1,040 00 
 465 00 
 540 00 
 500 00 
 1,012 00 
 969 00 
 1,200 00 
 3,886 00 
 
 3,101 00 
 403 00 
 2,690 00 
 594 00 
 1,359 00 
 1,985 00 
 2,693 00 
 1,011 00 
 
 RATE OF DISCOUNT 
 
 10 per cent 
 10 to 16 " " 
 15 " 18 " " 
 15 " 17 " " 
 
 18 " 36 " " 
 35 " 40 ' " 
 30 " 37 ' " 
 38 ' " 
 35 ' " 
 23 " 35 ' " 
 16 " 25 " 
 21 " 25 " " 
 25 " 29 " " 
 25 " 30 " " 
 25 " 30 " " 
 
 30 " 32 " " 
 
 34 " 35 " " 
 36 " 38 " " 
 38 " " 
 37 " 42 " " 
 40 " 45 " " 
 55 " 59 < " 
 59 " 60 " " 
 
 Total Discount . 
 
 AMOUNT OF 
 DISCOUNT. 
 $552 50 
 2,052 05 
 1,690 10 
 491 55 
 
 276 74 
 2,714 18 
 103 90 
 395 20 
 162 75 
 180 96 
 104 63 
 226 40 
 258 17 
 344 60 
 1,148 71 
 
 1,026 02 
 140 45 
 1,034 41 
 225 72 
 528 98 
 878 85 
 1,552 80 
 602 26 
 
 October 
 
 November 
 
 December 
 
 1863. 
 January 
 
 February 
 
 March 
 
 May 
 
 June 
 
 July. . 
 
 August 
 
 September 
 
 October 
 
 November 
 
 December 
 
 1864. 
 January 
 
 February 
 
 March 
 
 April 
 
 May. . 
 
 T * 
 June 
 
 July . 
 
 August 
 
 
 $67,588 00 
 
 $16,691 93 
 
 
 
 
DISBURSEMENTS, 
 
 1. Currency Drafts remitted to New York, 
 
 COST IV SAX FRANCISCO. 
 
 AMOrXT. 
 
 PREM. REC'D. CL'RRKXCY. 
 
 COIN' 
 
 1862 Sept. 20. 100,000.00 
 
 15 per cent. 
 
 
 S 86,956.52 
 
 Oct. 3. 
 
 100,000.00 
 
 20 " " 
 
 
 83.333.33 
 
 " 21. 30.000.00 
 
 20 " " 
 
 25,000.00 
 
 " 31. 
 
 35,956.11 
 
 26 " " 28,536.60 
 
 Xov. 10. 
 
 30,000.00 
 
 28 " " 23,437.50 
 
 10. 
 
 500.00 
 
 $ 500.00 ' 
 
 " 20. 
 
 30.000.00 
 
 28 per cent. 23.437.50 
 
 Dec. 10. 
 
 1,270.12 
 
 1,270.12 
 
 " 10. 
 
 18,729.88 
 
 28 per cent. 
 
 14,632.72 
 
 " 31. 
 
 20,000.00 
 
 28 " 
 
 15,625.00 
 
 1863! April 11. 5,000.00 
 
 35 " ' 
 
 
 3,704.48 
 
 li 11. 5,000.00 
 
 38 " ' 
 
 
 3,623.15 
 
 June 2. 2,000.00 
 
 45 " < 
 
 
 1,377.92 
 
 2. .-.000.00 
 
 46 " 
 
 
 5,479.45 
 
 Aug. 12. 5,000.00 
 
 26 ' 
 
 
 3,968.29 
 
 >.-pt. 11. 13,539.47 
 
 27 " ' 
 
 
 10,661.04 
 
 Oct. 2. 10.000.00 
 
 37 ' ' 
 
 
 7.299.32 
 
 N..v. 12. 
 
 [12,000.00 
 
 41 " " 
 
 8,510.63 
 
 I >.<;. 2. 
 
 14,100.00 
 
 41 " " 
 
 10.000.00 
 
 " 12. 
 
 } *9,067.00 
 
 9.067.00 
 
 
 " 12. 
 
 833.00 
 
 43 per cent. 
 
 
 582.42 
 
 " 14. 
 
 [ 14,000.00 
 
 40 " " 
 
 
 10.000.00 
 
 1864' Jan'y 12. 
 
 10,000.00 
 
 47 " " 
 
 6,802.75 
 
 " 22. 
 
 14,800.00 
 
 48 " " 
 
 10.000.00 
 
 " 22. 
 
 1,400.00 
 
 1,400.00 
 
 
 " 22. 
 
 14,800.00 
 
 48 " " 
 
 10.040.00 
 
 " 22. 
 
 9.000.00 
 
 1 
 
 6.000.27 
 
 Feby 12. 100.00 
 
 
 100.00 
 
 
 " 27. 100.00 
 
 
 100.00 
 
 
 Mmvh 2. 100.00 
 
 
 100.00 
 
 
 April 1. 43,500.00 
 
 50 per cent. 
 
 
 29.000.04 
 
 1. 4.963.29 
 
 50 " " 
 
 
 3,308.86 
 
 May 21. i 100.00 
 
 
 100.00 
 
 
 '" 21. 10,000.00 
 
 69 per ct. ) 
 
 
 5.917.16 
 
 
 stamp, f 
 
 
 20.04 
 
 " 21. 
 
 14,900.00 
 
 68 per cent. 
 
 
 8.869.05 
 
 Jund 2. 
 
 25,000.00 
 
 7f> " " 14.285.70 
 
 ; i 
 
 9613,758.87 8 12,637.12 3460.409.74 
 
 2. Coin Drafts remitted to New York and St, Louis. 
 
 AMorxT. FKEM'M PAID. | VaLinX.Y.inCnr'y, COSTIXCOIX. 
 
 1863Feb'y20. $ 15,000.00 4 1,-,' per cent. 
 
 3 23,100.00 
 
 3 15,675.00 
 
 1864 " 12. 1.236.71 
 
 :]'., " " 2,040.57 
 
 1,280.00 
 
 " March 2 7.500.00 
 
 4 " " 12,675.00 
 
 7.800.04 
 
 - July 12 
 
 20,000.00 ! 5 li " 52,200.00 
 
 21,000,00 
 
 43,736.71 | $90,015.57 3 45,755.04 
 
 * Constitutes the $50,000 referred to on page 67. 
 
DISBURSEMENTS. 
 
 3. California Eelief Account, 
 
 1863 
 
 June 2. 
 
 Paid Col. Drum for relief of 
 
 CURRENCY. COIN. 
 
 Soldiers in California,... | 500.00 
 Sept. 30. Paid Ladies' Patriotic Eelief 
 
 Society, 1 ,000.00 
 
 1864 Peb'y 1. do do do do 1,000.00 
 
 I i $2,500.00 
 
 4. Expense Account, 
 
 CURRENCY. COIN. 
 
 Salary of Assistant Secretary, 23 months . . $ 2,900.00 
 
 Services of Collectors 181.75 
 
 Telegrams 991.57 
 
 Postage 8 90.50 j 
 
 Stationery and Printing 355.67 
 
 Other Office expenses 210.44 
 
 Rent of Music Hall on several occasions. . . i 305.00 
 
 Discount on Silver 183.81 
 
 i$ 90.50 $ 5,128.24 
 
 Recapitulation of Disbursements, 
 
 I CURRENCY. COIN. 
 
 ] . Currency remitted to New 
 
 York: face of Drafts.. $613,758.87 $ 12,637.12 $460,409.74 
 2. Coin remitted to New York 
 
 and St.^ Louis : face of 
 
 Drafts 43,736.71 i 45,755.04 
 
 * Total remittances $657,495.58 1 
 
 Oostingjin Currency and Coin | $ 12.637.12 $506,164.78 
 
 3. California Belief Account I 2,500.00 
 
 4. Expense Account i 90.50 s'l28.24 
 
 Total Disbursements i 12,727.62 $513,793.02 
 Balance on hand subject to the order of! 
 R. G. SNEATH, Treasurer Cal. Branch, 
 U. S. Sanitary Commission i 355,00 12,559.28 
 
 j $ 13,082.62 $526,352.30 
 AUGUST 13, 1864. 
 
 (Signed.) JAMES OTIS, 
 
 TREASURER, 
 Soldiers' Relief Fund Committee. 
 
 * Total value of remittances in Currency 
 
 Currency Drafts $613,758.87 
 
 bom Drafts converted to Currency 90 015.57 
 
 $703,774.44 
 
SUPPLEMENT. 
 
 <0utribitticm$ ta the Jauitam 
 
 RECEIVED AND FORWARDED UY 
 
 REV. H. W. BELLOWS, D. D. 
 
 President of the U. S. Sanitary Commission, 
 
 DURING HIS RESIDENCE IN CALIFORNIA, 
 From April 3Oth to Sept. 23d, 1864. 
 
 CALIFORNIA. 
 
 AMADOR COUNTY. 
 
 July 28. Ladies' Sanitary Committee of Ama- 
 dor couuty, through Mrs. T. A. 
 Springer, Treasurer . . . .' 
 
 Sept. 5. Do. do. additional... 
 
 BUTTE COUNTY. 
 
 July 4. Children of Oroville, through Geo. C. 
 Perkins . . 
 
 CALAVERAS COUNTY. 
 
 Ang. 2. Mokelumne Hill, July 4 
 
 * 1C. San Andreas, July 4 
 
 Sept. 0. Mokelumne Hill, Ladies' Sanitary 
 Committee 
 
 EL DORADO COUNTY. 
 
 July 12. Placerville, Ladies' Festival. 
 
 Aug. 1 7. Lake Valley Sanitary Association . . . 
 
 HUMBOLDT COUNTY. 
 
 July 23. Sanitary Committee, through L. C. 
 Schmidt, Treasurer 
 
 MARIN COUNTY. 
 Aug. 17. Olema, by H. A. Wickware. 
 
 CCREEXCT. coix. 
 
 $ 10.00 
 
 943.25 
 
 25.00 
 
 $1,033.00 
 42.00 
 
 250.00 
 
 951.75 
 1,825.00 
 
 251.00 
 
 1,677.30 
 1,158.65 
 
 58.50 
 
 217.25 
 
36 * CALIFORNIA. 
 
 
 
 NAPA COUNTY. 
 July 25. Napa City, proceeds of Fourth of 
 July Barbecue, by Militia Com 
 pany . 
 
 CURRENCY. 
 
 $ 
 
 COIN. 
 
 $ 400.00 
 
 Aug. 6. Napa City, Washington Light Artil 
 lery . . 
 
 
 150.00 
 
 PLACER COUNTY. 
 July 21. W. G. Brown, Dutch Flat 
 
 
 13.50 
 
 PLUM AS COUNTY. 
 July 21. Taylorville, by Fourth of July Com 
 mittee, per A. F. Blood 
 
 130.00 
 
 3,370.00 
 
 Do. do. do. gold dust.... 
 Sept. 5. Susanville, proceeds of a Ball 
 
 3.00 
 
 243.75 
 71.75 
 
 SACRAMENTO COUNTY. 
 Sept. 2. Sacramento, per C. Crocker 
 
 
 1,004.10 
 
 " 14. "Sacramento Union" Compositors. 
 
 SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY. 
 July 23. Proceeds of Sanitary Fair, through 
 C. O. Burton, T. R. Anthony, and 
 others, draft on Boston . 
 
 10,858.12 
 
 20.00 
 
 SANTA CLARA COUNTY. 
 
 June 1 8. Proceeds of Lecture at Santa Clara . . 
 " 21. Do. do. do. additional 
 
 
 250.00 
 360.00 
 
 " 21. Do. do. do. do 
 
 
 200.00 
 
 July 5. Do. do. do. do 
 
 66.00 
 
 50.00 
 
 July 9. Santa Clara College 
 
 
 117.25 
 
 Aug. 1. Alviso Rifles, sale of Cake at Ball. . 
 " 12. Proceeds of Lecture at Santa Clara, 
 additional . . . .' 
 
 
 75.00 
 10 00 
 
 SIERRA COUNTY. 
 
 June 21. Citizens of Rowland Flat, Pine 
 Grove and Potosi, through T. A. 
 McFarland, Treasurer 
 
 
 1,520 50 
 
 " 26. Eureka North ($350 25, from sale of 
 two silver dollars joined) 
 
 
 600.00 
 
 July 8. Horace Tabor, Gibsonville 
 
 
 60 00 
 
 1 21. Downieville, through W. S. Day, 
 proceeds of sale of a jury fee 
 Aug. 17. Rowland Flat, Table Rock Sanitary 
 Committee 
 
 
 333.00 
 552 50 
 
 SOLANO COUNTY. 
 June 20. Citizens of Vallejo, through Dr. W. 
 Chapman 
 
 1250 00 
 
 
 July 27. Miss S. R. Pearson, Fairfield, 
 
 40.00 
 
 
 
 
 
CALIFORNIA. 
 
 37 
 
 SOLANO COUNTY. (CONTINUED.) 
 July 29. Vallojo, 100 contributors at James 
 
 Hillman's Address 
 
 Aug. C. Miss S. R. Pearson. Fairfield 
 
 " 11. Suisun, Election of School Trustees. . 
 
 SONOMA COUNTY. 
 
 July 6. Petaluma, First Baptist Church.... 
 " 14. Do. Ladies' Sanitary Committee. . 
 
 Aug. 26. Do. D. D. Hemenway 
 
 Sep. 20. Sebastapol, per Rev. A. Z. Hazzard, 
 
 TRINITY COUNTY. 
 
 July 12. Festival at Weaverville, forwarded 
 by Mrs. H. J. Howe, bar of gold, 
 valued at . . 
 
 TULARE COUNTY. 
 
 Sep. 21. Visalia, through Mrs. Jeffards. 
 
 YUBA COUNTY. 
 
 Aug. 9. Citizens of Marysville, per Charles 
 
 G. Brockius, Treasurer 
 
 (Also, a Hose Carriage.) 
 
 Total from the Interior. 
 
 CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN 
 
 FRANCISCO. 
 July G. Mr. Rulofson, photographing, July 4, 
 
 " 9. Hobbs, Gilmore & Co 
 
 ' 12. Through H. F. Edwards, bequest in 
 
 the Will of John Gale 
 
 Aug. 9. Miss Louise E. H. Collins 
 
 " 17. C. R. Story 
 
 Sept. 21. Girls and Boys under ten years of 
 
 " 22. Mrs. M. H. Holland, results of exhi 
 bition of her " Skating Pond," at 
 Mechanics' Fair.. 
 
 Total from California. 
 
 CURRENCY. COIX. 
 
 S 655.00 
 50.00 
 13.00 
 
 20.00 
 
 14,063.37 
 
 1,500.00 
 
 15,563.37 
 
 27.00 
 
 2,000.00 
 
 5.00 
 
 15.00 
 
 5,409.49 
 138.25 
 
 2,745.27 
 
 27,217.41 
 
 235.00 
 100.00 
 
 250.00 
 50.00 
 50.00 
 
 10.00 
 
 27,912.41 
 
38 
 
 NEVADA OREGON. 
 
 
 
 1864. 
 June 1. 
 
 NEVADA. 
 
 Ladies' Sanitary Committee, Carson 
 City " 
 
 CUI.RENCY. 
 
 COIN. 
 
 2,000.00 
 
 " 25. 
 
 Esmeralda San. Ass., through J. B 
 Saxton silver brick 
 
 
 4.517.00 
 
 " 25. 
 
 Austin, through E. S. Davis, four sil- 
 
 
 3,757.49 
 
 Sept.10. 
 
 Employees Gould & Curry mine, sil 
 ver bar 
 
 
 4,230.08 
 
 " 17. 
 
 Storey County, through A. B. Paul. . 
 
 
 5.500.00 
 
 
 Total 
 
 
 20,004.57 
 
 1864. 
 May 21. 
 Juno 1. 
 
 OREGON. 
 
 Linn County Sanitary Aid Society . . 
 Portland Ladies' Sanitary Aid So 
 ciety 
 
 
 325.00 
 629.00 
 
 " 1. 
 ' 25. 
 
 Forwarded by Amory Holbrook .... 
 Forwarded by C. C. Beekman, viz : 
 From Jackson County 
 
 2,000.00 
 1,079.25 
 
 
 
 From Scottsburg, Douzlas Co. . . 
 From Josephine County 
 
 210.00 
 546.00 
 
 
 " 15. 
 
 Salem, through J. H. Moors 
 
 537.09 
 
 
 li 20. 
 
 Linn Co. San. Aid Society 
 
 
 500.00 
 
 " 30. 
 
 Do. do. do. do. do 
 
 105.33 
 
 
 " 30. 
 
 Forwarded by Amory Holbrook, viz : 
 From Auburn, Baker County. . 
 From Ea^le Precinct 
 
 
 200.80 
 110.25 
 
 July 2. 
 
 From Bruceport, Pacific Co. . . . 
 Citizens of Cansemah 
 
 50.00 
 50.00 
 
 
 " 2. 
 
 Peter Paquet, Oregon City . . . 
 
 16.00 
 
 
 " 2. 
 
 Lafayette, Yamhill County 
 
 170.00 
 
 
 " 2. 
 
 Portland Ladies' Sanitary Aid So- 
 cietv . . ... 
 
 242.00 
 
 374.00 
 
 " 9. 
 
 Linn Co. San. Aid Society 
 
 104.25 
 
 
 " 12. 
 " 12. 
 " 12. 
 " 12. 
 
 Portland, through Mrs. A. C. Gibbs . 
 Umatilla, do. do. do. do . . 
 Town unknown, do. do. do.. 
 Ames Chapel, Portland 
 
 1,006.00 
 17.00 
 
 7.00 
 
 24.00 
 34.50 
 
 " 19. 
 " 27. 
 
 Eugene City, Fourth July Committee 
 Portland, through A. Holbrook 
 
 257.50 
 1,223.00 
 
 201.25 
 934.50 
 
 Aug. 2. 
 
 Cansemah, from Olive Geroam, and 
 other children 
 
 13.00 
 
 
 " 2. 
 
 Forwarded by Amory Holbrook, viz : 
 Two gentlemen of Portland. . . . 
 Citizens of Oregon City 
 
 93.00 
 
 15.00 
 
 
 Citizens of Umatilla 
 
 30.00 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 OREGON WASHINGTON TERRITORY. 39 
 
 Aug. 3. 
 " 5. 
 " 10. 
 
 " 10. 
 
 " 15. 
 " 19. 
 " 19. 
 " 23. 
 " 23. 
 " 24. 
 " 25. 
 " 25. 
 
 " 27. 
 ' 27. 
 Sept. 6. 
 ' 6. 
 " 12. 
 " 21. 
 
 Linn Co. Sanitary Aid Society 
 
 CURRENCY. 
 
 s 
 
 12.00 
 10.00 
 
 240.00 
 10.00 
 293.00 
 297.00 
 
 2,120.00 
 32.00 
 20.00 
 
 21.00 
 330.40 
 51.00 
 
 310.00 
 28.00 
 
 COIN. 
 
 $ 164.25 
 128.00 
 
 174.00 
 42.50 
 
 72.10 
 
 17.75 
 
 43.60 
 
 48.87 
 218,60 
 69.90 
 131.75 
 68.25 
 33.50 
 146.00 
 
 Mihvaukie do. do. do. 
 
 Forwarded by Amory Holbrook, viz : 
 Ladies of Portland 
 
 Citizens of Umatilla 
 
 Benton County, proceeds of June 
 election, and Fourth of July cele 
 bration at Maple Grove ..." 
 
 Sandy Precinct, Multuomah County 
 Citizens of Jackson County 
 
 Citizens of Josephine County . 
 
 Eola Sanitary Association 
 
 Portland, through A. Holbrook. 
 
 Oregon City, Lecture Fund 
 
 Ames Chapel, Camp Ground 
 
 Portland Ladies' Sanitary Aid So 
 ciety 
 
 Do. do. do. do. do. 
 
 Oregon City Lecture Fund. . . . 
 
 Linn County Sanitary Aid Society. . 
 Harrisburg, Linn County 
 
 Empire City, Coos County 
 
 Eugene City, Sanitary Committee.. 
 Total from Oreo-on . . 
 
 11,530.82 
 
 4,707.37 
 
 WASHINGTON TERRITORY. 
 
 1864. 
 June 1. Vancouver Ladies' Sanitary Aid So 
 ciety 
 
 484.00 
 
 203.00 
 126.47 
 800.00 
 658.50 
 
 10.00 
 20.00 
 9.20 
 
 50.00 
 
 97.75 
 10.00 
 300.00 
 
 2,768.92 
 
 196.50 
 
 10.95 
 76.00 
 
 " 22. 
 
 " 18. 
 " 18. 
 Aug. 2. 
 
 " 22. 
 " 24. 
 
 " 24. 
 Sep. 16. 
 
 Forwarded by Amory Holbrook, viz : 
 From Bruceport, Pacific Co. ... ; 
 From other sources 
 
 Vancouver Ladies' San. Aid Society. ; 
 Olvmpia, Fourth July Festival. 
 
 Forwarded by Amory Holbrook, viz: 
 Citizens of Oak Point ' 
 
 Citizens of Bruceport 
 
 Children of Fort Simcoe ' 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Hill, Fort! 
 Simcoe \ 
 
 Vancouver Ladies' Sanitary Aid So 
 ciety . . . i 
 
 Vancouver, W. W. Crawford 
 
 Citizens of Walla Walla 
 
 Total 
 
 283.45 
 
 
 
 
40 
 
 IDAHO TERRITORY HONOLULU. 
 
 IDAHO TERRITORY. 
 
 1864. 
 
 Aug. 10. Bag of gold dust from Warren's Dig 
 gings, Idaho County, (markec 
 $1200,) 
 
 HONOLULU. 
 
 1864. 
 
 July 29. J. T. Judd, by Alex. J. Cartwright 
 
 Aug. 2. Sales of 100 bbls. Molasses, contribu 
 ted by Capt. Makee 
 
 " 22. Contributions forwarded by A. J. 
 
 Cartwright 
 
 " 24. Sales of Capt. Makee's second 100 
 bbls. Molasses, $869 48 and $122. . 
 
 Sept. 22. Sales of Molasses, Sugar, Tamarinds, 
 etc. . . 
 
 Total 
 
 RECAPITULATION. 
 
 California 
 
 Nevada 
 
 Oregon 
 
 Washington Territory 
 
 Idaho Territory 
 
 Honolulu. . 
 
 Total amount received and forwarded by Rev. 
 H. W. Bellows.. 
 
 $1,378.46 
 
 50.00 
 
 1,380.00 
 
 1,430.00 
 
 15,563.37 
 
 11,530.82 
 2,768.92 
 
 1,080,72 
 
 991.48 
 303.92 
 
 2,376.12 
 
 27,912.41 
 
 20,004.57 
 
 4,707.37 
 
 283.45 
 
 1,378.46 
 1,430.00 2,376.12 
 
 31.293.11 
 
 56,662.38 
 
SECRETARY'S REPORT. 
 
 Gentlemen of the California Branch T T nited States Sanitary 
 Commission : 
 
 In accordance with a vote passed at the last meeting 
 of the Soldiers' Relief Fund Committee, which organi 
 zation you succeed, held on Thursday evening, August 
 1 1th, 1864, I have the pleasure of presenting TO you the 
 following report : 
 
 The first movement in this State, from which grew 
 the more extended action of all the people, in behalf of 
 the sick and wounded soldiers of the Union Army, took 
 place in this city, in the latter part of August, 1862. 
 The loyal portion of the community was then aroused 
 by the constantly recurring dispatches that told us of 
 the successive battles and defeats which our army suf 
 fered, under the command of Major General John Pope, 
 when attempting to stay the current of the rebel arms 
 under command of General R. E. Lee. At that time, 
 when the most earnest sympathies of the people were 
 excited, it was felt that something ought to be done by 
 us, by which we could, in some way, aid the cause of 
 the Union. The State was too far distant from the seat 
 of war to be called upon for volunteers to the army : 
 and, even if we might send reinforcements, the Admin i-- 
 tration had not deemed it prudent to decimate the 
 strength of the State, lest its isolation might demand all 
 the forces it could muster in case of any complications 
 with foreign powers. One evening a subscription paper 
 suggested by the impulsive loyalty of a few gen- 
 

 
 44 SECRETARY'S REPORT. 
 
 tlemen, and, in a few hours, a considerable number of 
 names were subscribed, pledging various sums, amounting, 
 in the aggregate, to $6,600, for the relief of the suffering 
 of our army. The movement was one that enlisted the 
 sympathies of all; but it was conceived, upon reflection, 
 that the movement should be systematized, made 
 broader and more general, and in place of a few hundred, 
 perhaps many thousand dollars might be obtained. 
 Only ii small portion of the money thus subscribed 
 upon that occasion was therefore collected. The first 
 public action towards a wider recognition of the 
 people's duties to the Union and its noble defenders, was 
 made at the next meeting of the Board of Supervisors, 
 held Monday evening, September 8th. At that meeting, 
 Supervisor John H. Redingtoh offered a resolution, which 
 passed unanimously, as follows : 
 
 Resolved, That this Board recommend that a public meeting of the 
 citizens of San Francisco be called for Wednesday, the 10th inst., at 
 8 o'clock P. M., at the chambers of the Board, to take measures for 
 increasing, to the greatest extent possible, the Patriotic Fund, for 
 the benefit of sick and wounded Union soldiers, and that the Clerk 
 of this Board be instructed to advertise the same in the several daily 
 papers of the city." 
 
 Ill accordance with this resolution, a meeting was 
 held, of which Hon. H. F. Teschemacher, Mayor, was 
 made Chairman, and F. MacCrellish and J. W. Bingham, 
 Secretaries. On account of the meagre attendance at 
 the meeting, it was moved that the meeting adjourn to 
 the next evening to insure a fuller attendance. The 
 motion was opposed by R. Gr. Sneath, Esq., who desired 
 that an Executive Committee be appointed without 
 delay; and that the whole State be communicated with. 
 He believed that, by exertions, a large amount of money 
 might be remitted East every month during the war, and 
 the feeling prevailed that action should be taken at 
 once. A slight discussion followed relative to the 
 method of organization and the appointment of com- 
 
SECRETARY'S REPORT. 45 
 
 mittees, participated in by Messrs. J. H. Redinirton. 
 Eugene Casserly. D. C. McRuer, and Hon. M. C. Blake, 
 which resulted in the appointment of a Committee of 
 Five to report a plan of action and onrani/ation, and tin- 
 names of a General Committee of Thirteen. The com 
 mittee of live was composed as follows: Hon. M. C. 
 Blake, Messrs. Eugene Casserly, R. G. Sneath, D. C. 
 McRner and E. H. Washburn. The meeting then 
 adjourned until the next evening (Thursday, September 
 1 1th,) at S o'clock, at the chambers of the Board of Su 
 pervisors. 
 
 The citi/ens met again the next evening, according 
 to adjournment, and Hon. M. C. Blake, Chairman of the 
 Committee of Five, submitted the following report: 
 
 The undersigned, appointed, at a meeting of the citizens of San 
 Francisco, held on the 10th instant, in accordance with a resolution 
 of the Board of Supervisors, " to take measures to increase to the 
 greatest extent possible the Patriotic Fund for the relief of the sick 
 and wounded soldiers of the Union," a committee to report a plan of 
 organization and action, and the names of a Central Executive Com 
 mittee, would respectfully submit the following as their report : 
 
 Believing that the pending rebellion against the Constitution and 
 Government of these United States, can and must be put down ; that 
 to that end the entire energies and resources of the nation should be 
 devoted ; that every individual should make the cause of the Consti 
 tution and Government his cause, involving in its issue his honor, 
 patriotism and manhood, and should consecrate to it his entire self, 
 fortune and life that present reverses only call for the exhibition of 
 the might of a true and loyal people, which we and our enemies know 
 full we'll, once aroused, will be irresistible that right and truth and 
 God are on our side and that at the present juncture, a public 
 declaration of their sentiments by the citizens of San Francisco, is 
 eminently fitting and proper, your committee recommend for your 
 adoption the following resolutions: 
 
 1. Resolved, That this war must be prosecuted till the authority of 
 the Constitution and Government of the United States is fully re 
 established over every foot of American soil. 
 
 2. Resolved, That we will sustain the Government in the most 
 vigorous possible prosecution of the war, till we have conquered, for 
 ou*r common country, peace, union, and the supremacy of the Consti 
 tution. 
 
 3. Resolved, That present reverses do not dishearten us, but we 
 see in them only a call for the arming of the nation. 
 
 4. Resolved, That we recommend a meeting of the citizens of San 
 
 Francisco, at Platt's Hall, on the evening of next, for a 
 
 public declaration of their sentiments in regard to the war and its 
 
40 SECRETARY'S REPORT. 
 
 prosecution. [Amended so as to read: " On a day to be designated 
 by the Committee of Thirteen."] 
 
 We make these recommendations, because they express our own 
 views, and seem to accord with the views of the meeting by which 
 we were appointed, and also because we believe their adoption will 
 not only promote the cause for which this meeting was specifically 
 called, but will confirm and establish patriotic sentiments in our com 
 munity. 
 
 But our object is not talk, but action. What can we do? Cali 
 fornia is removed from the seat of war. We have peace and quiet 
 and wonderful prosperity within our borders. We have not seen the 
 march of armies, nor have we ever been called upon to pour out our 
 treasure or to hazard our lives as have our brethren in the East. But 
 we have a call now we are beginning to hear it it needs no eloquence 
 of words it is pressing its claims upon us by its own irresistible logic 
 a call manifest and distinct for material aid a call from the sick 
 and wounded in the hospitals and on the battle-fields of the Union. 
 We ou<*ht to respond to this case and to every kindred case, for our 
 country's sake, and not less for our own ought to respond nobly, 
 (generously, patriotically, like men who have a country to save, and 
 who are worthy of that high position ; and we are sure Californians 
 will do it. 
 
 We, therefore, recommend the adoption of the following resolutions 
 as the organic law of the San Francisco Committee of the Soldiers' 
 Fund : 
 
 1. Resolved, That Messrs. H. F. Teschemacher, Win. Norris, 
 Henry Seligman, A. L. Tubbs, J. B. Roberts, Peter Donahue, John 
 H. Redington, Horace P. Janes, James Otis, Herman Nichols, John 
 N. Risdon, Eugene Sullivan and Wm. M. Lent be a committee to be 
 known by the name of the San Francisco Committee of the Soldiers' 
 Fund. 
 
 2. Resolved, That it shall be the primary object of the Committee 
 to raise money for the benefit of sick and wounded soldiers and sea 
 men of the army and navy of the United States, and to disburse it 
 through the proper channels. 
 
 3. Resolved, That the Committee shall continue during the war 
 *hall have power to fill vacancies in its body; to make all needful 
 rules and regulations for conducting its business and accomplishing 
 its objects; and, by a vote of two-thirds of its members, to change its 
 organic law. 
 
 4. Resolved, That the Committee shall invite not only the aid and 
 co-operation of the citizens of San Francisco, but of kindred organi 
 zations and of Union men throughout the States of Californiaand 
 Oregon, and the Territories of Washington and Nevada. 
 
 5. Resolved, That in furtherance of its primary object, the Com 
 mittee be requested to use its best endeavors to raise and forward, 
 with the least possible delay, a sum of money large enough to make 
 
SECRETARY'S REPORT. 47 
 
 up, in some degree, for our past neglect, and to be an assurance of our 
 present interest in the cause of the Union and its defenders; and, 
 hereafter, monthly, during the continuance of the war, such a sum 
 that it may be truly said of California in this respect, she has done her 
 whole duty. 
 
 All of which is respectfully submitted. 
 
 M. C. BLAKK, 
 R. (i. SXKATH, 
 E. H. WASHBURX, 
 
 D. C. McRUER, 
 
 E. CASSERLY, 
 
 Committee. 
 
 The Report was accepted and adopted unanimously. 
 
 The gentlemen named as the Committee of Thirteen 
 accepted readily the positions assigned them, excepting 
 Herman Nichols, Esq., who felt obliged to decline on 
 account of his being a representative of a foreign power. 
 In his place, Mr. Jona. Or. Kittle was immediately 
 chosen. The committee began at once to hold its meet 
 ings, and took immediate measures for carrying out the 
 recommendations of the Committee of Five. At the 
 first meetings of the committee, held on Friday fore 
 noon and evening, September 12th, Hon. H. F. Tescht-- 
 rnacher was chosen Chairman of the committee, James 
 ( )tis, Esq., Treasurer, and Alfred L. Tubbs, Secretary. 
 Sub-committees were appointed to make arrangements 
 and invite gentlemen to address a Mass Meeting which 
 was appointed for Sunday evening, September 14th. At 
 a meeting held on Saturday, September 13th, a communi 
 cation was read from Louis McLane, Esq., of the firm of 
 Wells, Fargo & Co., tendering the services of their 
 agents throughout this State and Oregon, in aid of the 
 objects of the committee, and offering to transmit all 
 moneys collected in the Interior to this city, without 
 charge. The committee was divided into sub-com 
 mittees, to whom different classes, trades and pro 
 fessions were assigned for collections, for the purpose of 
 facilitating the canvassing of the city, and all arrange 
 ments were made for commencing the work immedi- 
 
48 SECRETARY'S REPORT. 
 
 ately, after laying the matter properly before the people. 
 
 On the evening of Sunday, September 14th, there 
 was assembled in Platt's Music Hall, in response to 
 the call of the committee,one of the largest gather 
 ings ever held in this city. The meeting was appointed 
 to be held at eight o'clock, but such was the interest 
 already excited in the people, that an hour before 
 that time, the Hall was filled with an audience that 
 that has, perhaps, never been excelled in this city, in 
 point of intelligence and respectability. Every avail 
 able space in the body of the Hall was occupied, and 
 the gallery was filled with ladies. The meeting was 
 called to order, punctually, by D. C. McRuer, Esq., and 
 organized by the choice of Hon. H. F. Teschemacher as 
 President, with severity-seven Vice Presidents and four 
 Secretaries, selected from the most prominent citizens. 
 After introductory remarks by Mayor Teschemacher, 
 exceedingly earnest and eloquent addresses were made 
 by Eugene Casserly, Esq., Frederick Billings, Esq., Hon. 
 J. McM. Shafter, Edward Tompkins, Esq., and the late 
 Rev. Thos. Starr King. After the addresses, upon 
 motion of John Middleton, Esq., the following resolution 
 was passed unanimously: 
 
 Resolved, That the action of a meeting of citizens, in selecting a 
 Committee of Thirteen, composed of the following well-known gen 
 tlemen, H. F. Teschemacher, Win. Norris, Alfred L. Tubbs, J. B. 
 Roberts, Henry Seligman, Peter Donahue, Horace P. Janes, J. N. 
 Risdon, John II. Redington, Eugene L. Sullivan, Wm. M. Lent, 
 James Otis and Jona. G. Kittle, to collect and disburse funds for the 
 relief of the sick and wounded soldiers and seamen of our army and 
 navy, meets with the hearty approval and endorsement of this meeting, 
 and that we will meet these gentlemen upon their coming, with open 
 hands and liberal purses, and will cheerfully assist them to raise a 
 fund that shall be creditable to San Francisco. 
 
 Mayor Teschemacher then stated, in behalf of the 
 committee, that it being their intention to raise as large 
 a sum as possible, subscription books would be submitted 
 to all citizens in every portion of the city, that each 
 person might have an opportunity to make a single 
 
SECRETARY'S REPORT. 49 
 
 cash contribution, or subscribe a certain sum, payable 
 monthly, as long as the war should last. 
 
 The sub-committees, according to previous arrange 
 ment, immediately commenced the canvass of the city. 
 All private business was ignored, for the time, by the 
 gentlemen composing the committee, and the chief hours 
 of the day given to this new and noble work. The 
 whole city seemed to be thrilled as with an electric 
 shock, and the talk of the groups on the streets, the 
 merchants on 'Change, boys in the gutter, of men, 
 women and children, was the movement for the relief of 
 our sick and wounded soldiers ; and every loyal man's 
 heart beat in active sympathy with the work. The 
 soldier's needs took such an energetic hold on the people 
 that the committee, on their rounds, were not treated as 
 unwelcome beggars, but greeted as men who were doing 
 a work which it was each man's pride to see well 
 accomplished. And they gave all citizens gave with 
 such enthusiasm as one might expect from recipients of 
 good gifts, instead of givers of the wealth they had 
 toiled for. And there was such singular unanimity as 
 men see in no other great public undertaking. Then- 
 was alive, to interrupt their action, no bias of politi 
 cal feeling, no conflict of religious opinion, no differ 
 ence on grounds of nationality. Men gave their gold 
 as the overflow of great patriotic love. It was the 
 blood of their giant protector their country, native 
 or adopted that was flowing, and they came forth 
 readily to stay its stream. Men of every political 
 party gave whether Democrats, Republicans, or 
 even Secessionists ; and there was no sect or religion 
 that was not represented in this noble army of givers. 
 The Christians gave with loyal self-denial ; the Jews, as 
 earnest sympathizers with the suffering ; heretics, as citi 
 zens of a Republic to be saved ; and men of no religion, 
 
50 SECRETARY'S REPORT. 
 
 with an ardor worthy the humblest religions devotee. 
 The representatives of every nation living in our midst 
 English, German, French, Irish, Chinese, Italian, Hun 
 garian, Russian, Spanish gave with the fervor of native 
 citizens. The canvassing committees met, after their 
 h'rst labors, on Wednesday evening, September 1.7th, and 
 reported a list of subscriptions amounting to $60,000. 
 They met again on Thursday evening and reported 
 additional subscriptions exceeding $30,000. On Friday 
 they reported more than $14,000, in addition. 
 
 The money began now to flow into the Treasury, but 
 tin- question came with it, what was the best menus of 
 its disbursement to aid the sick and wounded soldiers? 
 The United States Sanitary Commission was an institu 
 tion little known in this city, and the committee were 
 unwilling to trust the distribution of this bounty to any 
 uncertain channel. The late Rev. T. Starr King, at this 
 time conferred with several members of the committee, 
 and, at their suggestion, he was invited to meet the whole 
 committee at the meeting of Thursday evening, Septem 
 ber 18th. He readily complied, and displayed to the 
 committee his familiarity with the workings of that noble 
 organization. He gave an account of its origin, its 
 objects, its progress, its administration, its endorsement 
 by the United States Government, its relation to the 
 same, and its wonderful prosperity and success. The 
 familiarity which he showed, and the earnest confidence 
 which he expressed in that institution as a most worthy 
 almoner, decided the committee as to the channel of 
 distribution. 
 
 The money, in answer to the subscriptions, poured 
 so rapidly into the Treasury, that by steamer-day, (Sat 
 urday,) September 1 9th, the committee bought exchange 
 for $100,000, and remitted the same at once, by tele 
 graph, to Rev. Henry W. Bellows, D.D., President, and 
 
SECRETARY'S REPORT. 51 
 
 George T. Strong, Treasurer, United States Sanitary 
 Commission, New York. 
 
 Notwithstanding the activity of the committee selected 
 by the people, many were eairer lest they should be 
 behindhand in this loyal work, and handed their con 
 tributions whatever they could give to the Treasurer, 
 before the gentlemen of the committee could reach 
 them. It seemed like a great festival of charity, at 
 which all men united, even though they were "poor 
 indeed." The employes of all the great corporations 
 and manufacturing establishments, both private and 
 those belonging to the Government, combined together 
 and sent their offerings for the sick and wounded sol 
 diers. The public and private schools of the city took 
 on themselves the sacrifice of their own luxuries, and 
 the names of almost all the children in the city appeared 
 in the daily papers as givers of their mites for the relief 
 of the soldiers. 
 
 The committee still continued their work, and reported 
 at their next meeting, on Tuesday, September 23d, more 
 than $16,000. The money subscribed was paid in so 
 rapidly that by the next steamer, September 1st, the 
 committee were enabled to make the second remittance 
 of drafts for 100,000, and acquainted the head of the 
 United States Sanitary Commission in New York by 
 telegraph. 
 
 In view of the work of the Western Sanitary Com 
 mission, a distinct and independent organization, whose 
 headquarters were at St. Louis, the committee directed 
 that fifty thousand dollars (S-50,000) of the last remit 
 tance be given to that body. Scarcely a fortnight had 
 passed since the great mass meeting to arouse the people 
 had been held, and already, through their efforts, the 
 treasuries for the relief of the soldiers had been enriched 
 by two hundred thousand dollars. 
 
52 SECRETARY'S REPORT. 
 
 The question of inciting the whole State to the same 
 noble work that the city was doing, claimed the early 
 attention of the committee. A circular was immedi 
 ately prepared, dated September 29th, 1862, addressed 
 "To the loyal people of California," and sent to the 
 postmasters and prominent citizens in every city and 
 town of the State. It was liberally distributed also 
 among the leading citizens of Nevada and Washington 
 Territories, and the State of Oregon, and published in 
 all the loyal newspapers of the coast. The interior had 
 already been excited to admiration at the singular and 
 spontaneous liberality of this city, and soon caught this 
 wonderful fever of charitable giving. Money, in all 
 sums, soon came pouring into the Treasury from every 
 portion of the State. Pacheco, in Contra Costa county, 
 sent $100 on the 20th of September ; San Andreas, 
 Calaveras county, $404 on the 22d ; Georgetown, Eldo 
 rado county, $200, and North San Juan, Nevada county, 
 $242, on the 2-3d, before the circular was issued. In 
 the early part of the following month, the other coun 
 ties began liberally to respond Solano, and then Shasta, 
 Los Angeles and Tuolumne, Placer, Santa Cruz and 
 Tehama, and the other counties of the State, following 
 in quick succession and making liberal contributions to 
 increase the Soldiers' Relief Fund. 
 
 To make the Interior better acquainted with the work 
 of the Sanitary Commission, and to offer specifically the 
 services of this committee in forwarding the funds there 
 collected, another circular was issued, dated October 
 20th, 1862, and widely distributed through the State. 
 
 Besides the subscriptions which were paid immediately, 
 there were a number of persons in this city who sub 
 scribed and paid monthly during the ensuing year. 
 Every month following the general movement, various 
 sums were raised in the interior counties of the State, 
 
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 according to their several ability, and forwarded to the 
 Treasurer in this city, as are particularly specified in the 
 Treasurer's Report, preceding, in this pamphlet. The 
 contributions from the city did not cease with the can 
 vassing of the committee, but during the year numerous 
 associations and individuals manifested their interest in 
 the cause by various donations. After the first active 
 labors, the current of remittances to the Treasury was 
 constant. 
 
 At the time of the elections, in the early part of Sep 
 tember, 1863, the sick and wounded soldiers were 
 remembered, and at the polls throughout the State, boxes 
 were placed to receive contributions. The happy result 
 was, that the State at large gave the sum of SS,410 86 
 in coin, and $881 in Legal Tender notes, and San Fran 
 cisco $5,229 30 in coin, and $43 in Legal Tender notes 
 making the handsome total of $13,640 11 in coin, 
 and $924 in Legal Tender notes, as a single day's con 
 tribution from the loyal masses of the State. During 
 the period of thirteen months following the Mass Meet 
 ing, September 14th, 1862, the committee made fourteen 
 remittances to the Treasury of the United States Sanitary 
 Commission, New York thirteen being in drafts payable 
 in currency, amounting to four hundred and fourteen 
 thousand nine hundred and ninety-five 58-100 dollars 
 ($414,995 58 ;) and one draft payable in gold, amounting 
 to fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000,) making a total of 
 four hundred and twenty-nine thousand nine hundred 
 and ninety-five and 58-100 dollars ($429,995 58.) 
 
 At the end of that time the war was being still prose 
 cuted with vigor, our army was suffering from wounds 
 and disease, and the charities of our people were needed 
 to continue the same noble work they had begun. 
 The committee met again, after a long period of inac 
 tivity, to consult upon the best method of future con- 
 
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 duct. The vacancies in the committee, occasioned by 
 death and by absence from the State, were immediately 
 filled. His Honor, Mayor H. P. Coon, was chosen 
 Chairman, in place of Hon. H. F. Teschemacher, former 
 Chairman, then absent from the State. Communi 
 cation was entered into with the President of the United 
 States Sanitary Commission, asking him the condition 
 and needs of the Treasury. The following reply was 
 
 received by telegraph : 
 
 NEW YORK, Oct. 23, 1863. 
 
 The Sanitary funds are low. Our expenses are fifty thousand dol 
 lars a month. We can live three months, and that only, without 
 large support from the Pacific. Twenty-five thousand dollars a 
 month, paid regularly while the war lasts, from California, would 
 make our continuance on our present magnificent scale of beneficence 
 a certainty. We would make up the other twenty-five thousand a 
 month here. We have already distributed Sanitary stores of the 
 value of seven millions of dollars to all parts of the army, at a cost 
 of three per cent. To abandon our work, or to allow it to dwindle, 
 would be a horrible calamity to the army and the cause. We never 
 stood so well with the nation ; but California has been our main sup 
 port in money, and if she fails us we are lost. The Board impera 
 tively urge me to go out to California and tell her all we owe her for 
 past favors, and all we need and hope. But how can I turn open 
 beggar to such a benefactor ? When California needs my presence 
 for such an object she will ask for it. Meanwhile I know that you 
 represent the soldiers' wants and our Commission better than I could 
 do in person. So organize, if possible, a monthly subscription, and 
 let us feel that California trusts and will sustain us in her past spirit 
 to the end. Telegraph fully in reply. ( iod bless California ! 
 
 HENRY W. BELLOWS. 
 
 The committee, in answer to this appeal, determined 
 to increase its numbers, and begin operations once more, 
 and incite the people to repeat the earnest benevolence 
 of the last year. A sub-committee issued a small cir 
 cular, October 30th, 1863, to a hundred or more citizens, 
 inviting them to attend " a meeting to be held in the 
 Twelfth District Court room, Saturday evening, October 
 31st, at 8 o'clock, to hear a communication from Rev. Dr. 
 Bellows, and to consult upon business connected with 
 the Sanitary Commission." 
 
 In response to this call, a considerable number of citi- 
 
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 zens met together. His Honor, Mayor Coon, \v;is made 
 Chairman, and Wm. Sherman, Esq., Secretary of the 
 meeting. The late Rev. Thos. Starr King gave a brief 
 history of the United States Sanitary Commission, its 
 operations, and what it had accomplished, and read a 
 letter from Dr. Bellows, setting forth their acknowl^ 
 edgements to the committee and the people of California 
 and the Pacific Coast, and stating the Commission's 
 future needs. Various gentlemen discussed the matter 
 of responding in the best mariner to the wants of the 
 Commission, and expressed their confidence in the patri 
 otism and liberality of the people of California. The 
 result of the meeting was the addition of twenty-two 
 gentlemen to the old committee, and a recommendation 
 that " the committee call a Mass Meeting, issue a circular 
 address to the people of California, and adopt such other 
 means to accomplish the object of the committee as 
 they may deem expedient." The committee thereafter, 
 including a few gentlemen added to it at the earliest 
 subsequent meetings of the committee, was composed as 
 follows : H. P. Coon, James Otis, A. L. Tubbs, Jos. B. 
 Thomas, R. G. Sneath, E. L. Sullivan, W. M. Lent, 
 Albert Miller, John O. Earl, W. C. Ralston, A. Seligman, 
 H. L. Dodge, W. M. Rockwell, J. P. Buckley, Jerome 
 Rice, Alex. G. Abell. Wm. Sherman, F. A. Holniau, 
 Jonas G. Clark, Thos. Starr King, John H. Redington, 
 Jas. B. Roberts, Jona. G. Kittle, Peter Donahue, Geo. 
 W. Gibbs, John Sime, E. Cohn, F. A. Woodworth, ,J. N. 
 Risdon, R. B. Swain, Seth H. Wetherbee, Wm. R. Wads- 
 worth, R. B. Woodward, L. B. Benchley, Eugene Cas- 
 serly, J. R. Hardenbergh, Horace Davis, O. B. Jennings, 
 W. H. Hook, N. P. Perine, W. H. Codington. 
 
 According to the suggestions of the meeting of citi 
 zens, the committee took measures for holding a Mass 
 Meeting, and invited speakers for the occasion. As a 
 
50 SECRETARY'S REPORT. 
 
 preliminary measure, for the thorough canvassing of 
 the city, immediately after the meeting, subscription 
 books were prepared and sub-committees appointed, and 
 special portions of the business community assigned to 
 them. The Mass Meeting was held at Platt's Music 
 Hall, on Tuesday evening, November 10th. The people 
 answered the call enthusiastically, and at the hour 
 appointed for the commencement of the exercises, the 
 Hall was densely crowded. The Band of the Ninth 
 Infantry, U. S. A., was present, and gave interest to the 
 occasion by its contributions of stirring patriotic airs. 
 At seven and a-half o'clock, the chairman of the com 
 mittee, Hon. H. P. Coon, called the meeting to order, 
 and, with a few eloquent remarks, introduced Hon. F. 
 F. Low, Governor of the State, as President of the meet 
 ing. The President was supported by an able and 
 intelligent corps of Vice Presidents and Secretaries. An 
 introductory speech was made by Gov. Low ; and the 
 Treasurer, Jas. Otis, Esq., followed with the report of 
 the receipts, disbursements, and remittances to New 
 York, since the formation of the Committee. Interesting 
 and patriotic addresses succeeded from Rev. D. B. Che 
 ney, Wm. T. Coleman, Esq., Commander Selim E. 
 Woodworth, Edward Tompkins, Esq., and the late Rev. 
 T. Starr King. The same earnest sympathy was mani 
 fested by the hearers in the cause of the suffering soldier, 
 and the same ardent enthusiasm seemed to prevail as 
 when the object was first approached in the year previous. 
 It was evident that the loyalty and generosity of the 
 people had not become exhausted, nor the ability to do 
 noble deeds for our country. 
 
 The sub-committees immediately waited upon the 
 people of the city, who received them w r ith no less cor 
 diality than the year before. Looking to a long-con 
 tinued flow into the Treasury, and to a fulfillment of the 
 
SECRETARY'S REPORT. 57 
 
 request of the President of the Commission, contained in 
 his dispatch, the committee now asked especially for 
 monthly subscriptions. These they received from many, 
 while the impulsive generosity of others induced them 
 to give at once the donation they would make for 
 the following year. At the first meeting after the 
 canvassing began, the committee were able to report 
 the sum of 830,000 subscribed, payable immediately, 
 and S4,oOO payable monthly; at the next meeting, si 7.- 
 97-5, in cash subscriptions, and $255 payable monthly. 
 It was soon apparent that San Francisco would do her 
 part towards fulfilling the request from the East. 
 
 The effectiveness of appeals to the people of the inte 
 rior of the State, had been abundantly proved by the 
 experience of the past year. The committee, this year, 
 had adopted the same course, and issued, at the time the 
 work was begun in this city, for interior distribution, a 
 circular "Appeal for Relief of Wounded Soldiers," dated 
 November 9th, 1863 ; and the country began to answer 
 with their former alacrity and generosity. 
 
 The success of the committee in this city was such 
 that the following dispatch was soon sent to the Presi 
 dent of the United States Sanitary Commission : 
 
 SAX FRANCISCO, Dec. 12, 1863. 
 REV, HEXRY W. BELLOWS, 
 
 President of the U. S. Sanitary Commission: 
 San Francisco will furnish the Sanitary Commission Two Hundred 
 Thousand Dollars during the year 1864, to be paid in New York in 
 monthly installments. AVe are not yet informed what amount may 
 be expected from the balance of the State, but believe that One 
 Hundred Thousand Dollars more will be assured the Commission as 
 soon as organizations can be effected for that purpose. This will 
 <rive Twenty-five Thousand Dollars per month; and by steamer to 
 day we send you Fifty Thousand Dollars for January and February. 
 With assurance of' our continued fidelity to the cause, and sym 
 pathy for those who suffer in its defence, 
 
 In behalf of the Committee, 
 
 H. P. COON. Chairman. 
 JAMES OTIS, Treasurer. 
 
58 SECRETARY'S REPORT. 
 
 To which, a few days after, the following telegraphic 
 reply was received : 
 
 NEW YORK, December 17, 1863. 
 Hox. II. P. COON, AND JAMES OTIS, ESQ. : 
 
 BROTHERS : I wonder that your life-giving telegram, charged with 
 Two Hundred Thousand Dollars ($200,000), did not find me in my 
 travels, and shock me into immediate consciousness of the splendid 
 news. But just returned to New York, I see my table illumined with 
 this resplendent message, and in my haste to acknowledge such a glo 
 rious and patriotic continuance in well doing, I can only stutter Noble, 
 tender, faithful San Francisco, City of the heart, commercial and 
 moral capital of the most humane and generous State in the world ! 
 
 If God gives to you, so you give to others. Your boundaries will 
 not hold the riches and the blessings in store for you ; they must needs 
 overflow into the hands of the needy and suffering, and make your 
 name the balm and cordial of want and sorrow. " I was sick, and 
 ye visited me." This is the nation's thought, as she sees herself 
 wounded in every hero that languishes in her hospitals, and then 
 gazes at the Pacific, at California, with San Francisco at the head 
 the good Samaritan for the first time appearing in the proportions of 
 a great city, of a whole State, of a vast area. 
 
 HENRY W. BELLOWS. 
 
 The Treasurer's Report amply testifies to the success 
 which the appeals of the committee met with throughout 
 the extent of our loyal State. The towns of the State 
 came hastily into the line, and were strenuous each to 
 outdo the other in their gifts. Most paid their contri 
 butions at once; a few made occasional contributions 
 during the year. The town of Columbia, Tuolumne 
 county, and the Gold Run Relief Society, of Placer 
 county, are prominent, as making handsome contribu 
 tions, for several successive months, into the Treasury. 
 
 No direct appeal having been made to the Interior for 
 specific monthly contributions, it was deemed expedient 
 that the matter be brought to the notice of the people, 
 that it might be known what definite amount might be 
 expected monthly from the whole State. A circular 
 was accordingly prepared, but was delayed in being sent 
 away. In the early spring of 1864, one of the com 
 mittee late Rev. T. Starr King had determined, and 
 had so announced to the committee, to go personally 
 
SECRETARY'S REPORT. 59 
 
 into the most prominent counties of the State, appeal 
 directly to the people, and ask of them fixed contribu 
 tions to the Sanitary Fund every month. That purpose 
 lie was unable to fulfil; for, at the time he had proposed 
 to begin the work, he was taken sick, and after a ti-w 
 lays' illness, died on the 4th of March, 1864. In his 
 death, not the Sanitary Commission alone, but every 
 good and noble cause, lost an able advocate; not the 
 City and State alone, but the Nation lost an ornament 
 and support a strong arm and noble heart. On the 
 8th of March the committee met to take notice of the 
 loss. After a few remarks upon- the character of Mr. 
 King, Mr. F. A. Woodworth offered the following reso 
 lutions, which were passed unanimously: 
 
 As co-laborers with the late Rev. Thomas Starr King, iu the cause 
 of the suffering among the defenders, in the field and on the wave, 
 of our Nation's honor and integrity, it is fitting that the Soldiers' Re 
 lief Fund Committee give public testimony of their appreciation of 
 his services. It is therefore 
 
 RESOLVKD, That in his death they deeply feel the loss of a toiler, 
 most earnest and energetic, in the field of their labors a soul ever 
 ardent with love of a country in anguish, full of eloquent sympathy 
 for the dying on the battle-fields, the sick and wounded in the 
 hospitals of the nation ; unwearied in his work of filling other men 
 with a just estimate of their duty in the cause of mercy, of charity 
 and of country ; 
 
 That he has gone from among them when it would seem he could 
 least be spared, just ready, as he believed himself to be, once more to 
 seek the interior counties of the State, and plead the cause of the soidier; 
 
 That in his going, the City has lost a most worthy citizen ; the State 
 an able upholder of law and government; the Nation a Patriot, 
 whose uncompromising loyalty won the honor and admiration of all 
 good men, the fear of traitors and their abettors; Humanity and 
 Charity and Mercy a supplicant, whose asking was not greater than 
 his own bestowment: Learning and Culture and Literature, a schol- 
 arlv disciple, whose constancy taught others much of the alphabet of 
 Truth ; Religion, a bright exemplar, whose fervor and piety found 
 joyful testimony in a noble life, a heroic and triumphant death ; all 
 go'od men and true, and all causes of progress and truth, a laborer, 
 who has early gone to receive his well-won reward ; 
 
 That, as friends of the man, and lovers of his virtues, they trust in 
 Him who called him away, believing that only a bright crown awaits 
 him who could so humbly meet the decree of God, could go so man 
 fully into " the valley of the shadow of death," proclaiming, as he 
 stepped from the Life Present to the Life Eternal, that he was 
 " happy, resigned, trustful." 
 
GO SECRETARY'S REPORT. 
 
 The active labors of the committee in this city were 
 finished, and there was need for meetings only occasion 
 ally, until the arrival af Rev. Henry W. Bellows, D.D., 
 President of the United States Sanitary Commission, in 
 the last of April, J864. Although the committee was 
 merely a local organization, and disconnected in every 
 way with that of which he was the head, the work for 
 which it was formed and its constant communications 
 and remittances, had placed it in the position of nearest 
 sympathy with him. He met the committee soon 
 after his arrival, was in constant intercourse with 
 them, and placed himself, so far as communication 
 with the people of the city, under their immediate 
 auspices. But the people needed no medium between 
 them and the eloquent head of the great charitable 
 organization with which they had long been familiar. 
 They had become immediate friends through the 
 eloquent and thrilling messages which he had often 
 sent during the past two years, by telegrams and 
 letters, in answer to the remittances which the com 
 mittee had been constantly making. He wished early 
 to meet the people, and accordingly, under the direction 
 of the committee, he addressed the citizens of San Fran 
 cisco, on Friday evening, May 13th, at Platt's Music 
 Hall. 
 
 At a meeting of the committee, on Saturday evening, 
 June 4th, an otfer was received, through Mr. Sneath, from 
 Messrs. Steele Brothers, to make a mammoth cheese, of 
 4,000 pounds weight, to be exhibited and finally sold for 
 the benefit of the Sanitary Fund. They desired the 
 expenses attending the preparation of the same for exhi 
 bition, to be met by this committee, and upon its com 
 pletion it would be handed over to them. The propo 
 sition was immediately acquiesced in, and the expenses 
 assumed by the committee. The matter of the cheese 
 
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 was referred to a committee, by whom arrangements 
 were subsequently made, upon its reception, for its 
 exhibition in the pavilion of the Mechanics' Institute, 
 erected for the Industrial Fair, and open to visitors on 
 the first of September. 
 
 Since the Treasurer made his Report of the previous 
 year, at the Mass Meeting of November 10th, 1863, up to 
 August llth, 1864, remittances had been made to the 
 Sanitary Commission, in answer to the appeal of Dr. Bel 
 lows in October, 1863, (for $25,000 per month,) nine 
 teen drafts; amounting to one hundred and ninety-eight 
 thousand seven hundred and sixty-three 29-100 dollars 
 ($198,763.29,) payable in currency ; and two drafts, 
 amounting to twenty-one thousand two hundred and 
 thirty-six and 71-100 dollars ($21,236.71,) payable in 
 gold. In the month of March, the Treasurer remitted to 
 the Western Sanitary Commission, at St. Louis, a draft 
 for seven thousand five hundred dollars ($7,500,) pay 
 able in gold making the total of remittances since 
 the Treasurer's Report, two hundred and twenty-seven 
 thousand five hundred dollars ($227,500.) The amount 
 of remittances since the first movement, September 
 12th, 1862, was six hundred and fifty-seven thousand 
 four hundred and ninety-five 58-100 dollars ($657, 
 495.58.) 
 
 In addition to these remittances, in the month of June, 
 1863, in answer to representations concerning the con 
 dition of the United States soldiers upon this coast, the 
 Treasurer paid to R. C. Drum, Assistant Adjutant Gen 
 eral, five hundred dollars ($500) for disbursements for 
 their relief. 
 
 The total receipts from forty-two counties of this 
 State, and a few donations from Nevada Territory, 
 Oregon, and Washington Territory, from September 
 14th, 1862, to August 13th, 1864, were four hundred 
 
62 SECRETARY'S REPORT, 
 
 and seventy-five thousand four hundred and fifty-six 
 23-100 dollars ($475,456.23) in coin, and eighty thou 
 sand six hundred and seventy 62-100 dollars ($80,670.62) 
 in currency making a total of five hundred and fifty- 
 six thousand one hundred and twenty-six 85-100 dollars 
 ($556,126.85.) 
 
 The apparent excess of remittances over receipts is 
 explained by the fact, that a large portion of the coin 
 collected was converted into currency, by the purchase 
 of drafts, payable in New York in current funds. 
 
 The whole expenses of the committee, during the two 
 years of their existence, including Mass Meetings, office 
 rent, circulars, printing, and expenses of all kinds, 
 amounted to $5,218.74, no one of the members of the 
 committee having received any compensation for his 
 services. The exchange paid for coin drafts was $2,- 
 018.33. The balance in the Treasury, August 13th, at 
 the time the name and functions of the organization 
 were changed, was twelve thousand five hundred and 
 fifty-nine 28-100 dollars ($12,559.28) in coin, and three 
 hundred and fifty-five dollars (355) in currency ; total, 
 twelve thousand nine hundred and fourteen 28-100 dol 
 lars ($12,914.28.) 
 
 The probability of the still further continuance of the 
 war, and with it the need of money for the relief of our 
 suffering soldiers, instigated, during Dr. Bellows' sojourn, 
 the re-organization of the committee. That the chari 
 ties of the whole State might be more thoroughly col 
 lected, it was deemed best that a State organization be 
 founded, through which local organizations in every 
 populous community of the State might be formed, and 
 to which they should all be tributary. The coinmittee, 
 therefore, at the meeting held August llth, 1864, accepted 
 the suggestions of Dr. Bellows, ceased to be a local organi 
 zation for the direct collection of funds in this city alone, 
 
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 and under his approval and authority, assumed the char 
 acter and name of the California Branch of the United 
 States Sanitary Commission, of which persons residing 
 in different parts of the State, should be invited to 
 become members. They thereupon elected Hon. F. F. 
 Low, Governor of the State, President, and chose an 
 Executive Committee, upon whom the chief conduct of 
 affairs should devolve, composed of Hon. D. C. McRuer, 
 Chairman ; R. G. Sneath, Abraham Seligman, Geo. "\Y. 
 Gibbs, F. A. Woodworth, Albert Miller, and A. L. 
 Tubbs. Here ended the work of the original organiza 
 tion as such. Its functions, and others of wider scope, 
 were assumed and are now continued by the larger 
 organization. 
 
 Respectfully submitted. 
 A. L. TUBBS, GEO. B. MERRILL, 
 
 Secretary. Ass't Secretary. 
 
 SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 7th, 1864. 
 
REPORT 
 
 OF THE 
 
 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 
 
 FOR 1864-05. 
 
 To the California Branch of the United States Sanifary 
 
 Commission : 
 
 Your Executive Committee, having completed the 
 work assigned them, beg leave to report : 
 
 The origin of this " Branch " of the National Institu 
 tion, and the appointment of this " Committee upon 
 whom the chief conduct of affairs should devolve," has 
 been succinctly stated in the preceding report, rendered 
 by the " Soldiers' Relief Fund Committee." 
 
 The first work of your Committee, in which they 
 were aided by the presence and counsel of Rev. Dr. 
 Bellows, President of the United States Sanitary 
 Commission, was to furnish the necessary facilities for 
 doing business procure a good office in a central 
 location, erect conspicuous signs, and secure the ser 
 vices of {^competent Secretary, "w r hose duty it should 
 be to be always present at the office, give his entire 
 time to the work, take charge of all the books and 
 documents, conduct all the correspondence, place him 
 self in communication with parties in all the principal 
 towns of California who hold prominent positions ; and, 
 having his whole soul in the work, excite and foster the 
 greatest interest among all the people concerning the 
 Sanitary Commission and its work." 
 9 
 
66 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE'S REPORT. 
 
 His Excellency, FRED'K F. Low, Governor of Califor 
 nia, having accepted the Presidency of the Branch, R. 
 G. SNEATII, Esq., was elected " Treasurer, with power 
 to select such person as he should choose for book 
 keeper," and 0. C. WHEELER was appointed Secretary. 
 
 A Seal was also procured with which to authenticate 
 official documents, and an engraved Certificate to be 
 presented to any individual who should donate the 
 amount of ten dollars or over. 
 
 The favor with which your work was received by the 
 people may be inferred from the fact that the contract 
 ors for the building of the Government Monitor " Ca- 
 manche," Messrs. Donahue & Ryan, placed at the dis 
 posal of your Committee the privilege of erecting gates 
 at the yard and collecting such fees as they pleased for 
 the admission of visitors to the yard and vessel during 
 its construction and launch the net receipts from 
 which amounted to $4,568.10, in coin, and $4.00 in cur 
 rency. Also, Messrs. Steele Bros., dairymen of Santa 
 Cruz county, made and presented to the Commission a 
 cheese, weighing 3,930 pounds, from the exhibition 
 (room for the same being donated by the Mechanics' 
 Institute at its Fair) and sale of which the net receipts 
 were $1,889.41 in coin, and $1.00 in currency. 
 
 The "Branch," or General Committee, was so increased 
 by the addition of new names, in various portions of the 
 State, as to compose a body at once effectivg in action 
 and commanding in influence. Whereupon the following 
 Address was issued, and more than 12,000 copies of it 
 circulated throughout the coast : 
 
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE'S REPORT. 67 
 
 ADDRESS 
 
 OF THE 
 
 (California Branch Htnitrd tate*s anitanj 
 
 TO THE PEOFLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA. 
 
 THE U. S. SANITARY COMMISSION, in existence and fall operation 
 since the very beginning of the war. is by far the largest and most suc 
 cessful Humane Society the world ever saw. It has during the last 
 three years collected, in money and supplies, about Twelve Millions, 
 for the benefit of our Sick and Wounded Soldiers. It is known through- 
 cut the world. as the honor and glory of our land the evidence which 
 the homes of the Nation have given of their attachment to our insti 
 tution-, and of their love and devotion to the brave men who have 
 offered their health and strength, their blood and their lives, upon the 
 altar of country. Every loyal State and Territory of the Union, and 
 every little community of American citizens abroad in China, Aus 
 tralia. Russia. France. Germany, and wherever else an involuntary 
 exile from America is found has helped to enrich its Treasury. It 
 unites the whole people in one glorious bond of beneficence. Obliter 
 ating State lines, sectarian divisions and party distinctions, it solicits 
 from all American citizens Jews and Christians, Protestants and 
 Catholics, Orthodox and Heterodox. Republicans and Democrats, men. 
 women and children all. in short, who enjoy the protection and 
 iiirs '>!' our glorious institutions the means of succoring and cherish 
 ing those who are upholding our battle-torn FI.A;. and who lie in Hos 
 pitals, or bleed on fearful fields ot slaughter. Enjoying the increu-iiiLr 
 confidence of the American people its plans of operations fully under 
 stood, its machinery petfected by long experience, its methods already 
 partially adopted even by the people of foreign countries, it* integrity, 
 efficiency and thoroughness established by millions of witnesses it is 
 no longer on trial, but the recognized and thoroughly National channel 
 through which flow the oil and wine of American homes and hearts 
 into the soldiers' wounds. 
 
 California and the Pacific Coast have a pre-eminent honor in having, 
 at an early day, spontaneously and with instinctive sagacity, chosen 
 the U. S. Sanitary Commission as its Almoner. No population of 
 equal numbers has contributed so much as the Pacific Coast ! Cali 
 fornia, up to this date, has poured more than Seven Hundred Thous 
 and Dollars. U. S. Currency, into the Treasury ; Nevada Territory, 
 >:)2.5oo. IN GOLD AND SILVER ! Oresfon, about $50,000; Washington 
 Territory, over 820,000 ; Idaho, about $4,000 ; and the Sandwich Is 
 lands in reflection of the noble doings of the Coast nearly 310.000 ; 
 Is this ntt a sufficient testimony where the affections of our people 
 are ? The simple question is. is this people enlisted for the war ? Do 
 they intend to crown the splendid pillar they have so nearly completed, 
 with a capital worthy of the costliness and glory of its shaft ? Or will 
 they now leave it, a broken column, pointing at which, posterity .-hall 
 say. -They began to build, and were unable to finish.'' We believe no 
 such thing! The Pacific Coast has chosen its method of illustrating 
 
68 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE'S REPORT. 
 
 its connection with this war. Every honor, which the labors and cares 
 of the U. S. Sanitary Commission reflect on the Nation, redounds in a 
 special manner to the Pacific Coast; and California, Nevada Territory, 
 Oregon, Washington Territory and Idaho, mean to increase, not to 
 diminish, their investment in this glorious work of mercy, this splendid 
 inheritance of giory. 
 
 Evidence enough exists fully to satisfy this Committee, that the 
 only tiling needed to give even larger emphasis to the patriotic gifts of 
 the Pacific Coast, is a more systematic method in collecting them. 
 San Francisco, Sacramento, and a few other centres, have pursued 
 their collections with business-like method, and their contributions 
 have been correspondingly large and fully worthy of their wealth and 
 patriotism. AH sections of the State have responded with cordial 
 liberality, but their gifts have been the outflow of occasional spasmodic 
 efforts, and not of regular, steadfast labor. What is to be desired is, 
 that each town shall organize a "Soldiers' Aid Society," and solicit 
 and secure regular MONTHLY subscriptions, to be regularly forwarded to 
 the " California Branch of the U. S. Sanitary Commission," at San 
 Francisco. 
 
 For two years past, San Francisco has done nobly, and the whole 
 State has not been behind. Shall we now flag? Is the need any less ? 
 Are we not just now at the bloodiest and most suffering period of the 
 war ? With every step that we move nigher to the heart of the Kebel- 
 lion, a larger proportion of our brave fellows must feel the bullets of a 
 more desperate enemy. Accordingly, the last six months have seen 
 the laborsand expenses of the Sanitary Commission TRIPLED 1 Not 
 less than $300,000 a month have been expended on the wants and 
 wounds and sicknesses of Grant's and Sherman's armies, for the last 
 six months; and as the dreadful tragedy approaches its consummation, 
 blood must flow more freely and suffering increase. The needs of 
 mercy and humanity will continue more and more urgent to the last 
 syllable of the war. It is, therefore, of the fi^t importance that Cali 
 fornia should pledge herself at once to the humane duties of the next 
 year. The State at large should do as much as San Francisco ?2f>.- 
 000 per month ; yet. to do that, will require the most persistent and 
 systematic efforts. IN A SHORT TIME THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE WILL 
 CALL A MASS MEETING FOR THE PURPOSE, AS IN THE TWO PREVIOUS YF.AKS. 
 OF AGAIN CONFERRING WITH THE PEOPLE OF THIS CITY, UPON THE VITAL 
 INTEREST OF THE SANITARY COMMISSION, AND INCITING THEM TO PLEDGES 
 OF THEIR ENLARGED SUPPORT DURING THE WAR. WlLL NOT EVERY MAN 
 HOLD HIMSELF IN' READINESS TO STAY WITH THE SAME GENEROUS CHAR 
 ITY THE EARLY DEPLETION OF ITS COFFERS? Shall llOt the residue of 
 
 the State give at least as much as San Francisco ? How easily might 
 it do it. with general organization? A half-dozen patriotic, enthusias 
 tic Committee men in each town, by devoting a few hours a week to 
 the work which, by the joy they would find in it, would a thousand 
 times over, repay all their toil might get every town, or caiftp, or set 
 tlement, pledged to a certain monthly payment, which in its aggregate 
 results would be immense. Do not wait for each other, fellow-patriots, 
 but spring to the work ! Organize ! organize ! organize ! in each county 
 and each town! AVherever a Sanitary Committee exists, continue it, 
 and make it the nucleus of other movements. Do not let the matter 
 sleep, from quarter to quarter ; but stir it up in WEEKLY meetings. Cor- 
 
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE'S REPORT. 69 
 
 respond with well-known patriots in each camp or settlement. Ring 
 in the whole available strength of each county and town, and let the 
 counties and towns enter into a holy emulation with each other, in this 
 glorious work of patriotism and mercy. 
 
 Above all, let the WOMEN of the State aid the men in the matter 
 of monthly subscriptions, carrying around the papers and collecting 
 funds! Every town should have its ladies organized, either in a 
 Soldiers' Sowing Circle, making articles for sale for the benefit of th 
 local fund, or in some other way devising means with womanly tact 
 to promote the general interests of the Fund. 
 
 The Sanitary Fund Committee of San Francisco has just been re 
 animated, and'has adopted, under the authority of the President of 
 the Commission, the title: "The California Branch of the I'. S. 
 Sanitary Commission." It has now full authority from the Tun-m 
 Association at Xew York, to represent all its interests in Califor 
 nia. Accordingly, it is no longer merely a city, but a State organ 
 ization. The new office of the California Branch is now open at the 
 corner of Pine and Montgomery streets. San Francisco. Citizens 
 from all parts of the State" or coast, visiting the city, are cordially 
 invited to call, and give and obtain information respecting the inter 
 ests and the work of the Commission. Agents will ,be~ sent into the 
 various counties of the State to establish Soldiers' Aid Societies; 
 but we beg patriotic citizens not to wait their coming, but to organ 
 ize at once, and report their existence and officers to this office. All 
 inquiries will be answered by the Secretary, O. C. Wheeler, with whom 
 Committees and individuals are invited to correspond. It is hoped 
 that before the month of January every town in the State will be 
 fully organized, and send its first monthly contribution to the Califor 
 nia Branch, to be transmitted to the central office at Xew York. 
 
 F. F. LOW. President, 
 
 R. G. SNEATH, Treasurer. 
 
 D. C. McRUER. Chairman Ex. Com. 
 
 O. C. WHEELER, Secretary. 
 
 SAX FRAXCISCO: 
 
 W. C. RALSTON. C. W. BROOKS, 
 
 * ALBERT MILLER. W. A. WOODWARD, 
 JOHX O. EARL. L. C. DODC, 
 
 Jos. B. THOMAS, W. W. MoBTAQOB, 
 
 E. L. SULLIVAN. W. A. MACOXDRAY, 
 A. L. TUBES, LEVI STEVENS. 
 
 W. M. ROCKWELL, IRA P. RANKIN. 
 
 GEG. W. GIBBS, F. L. CASTLE. 
 
 II. L. DODGE, O. B. JEN.MM;>. 
 
 JOH.V SIME, O. C. PRATT. 
 
 WM. SHERMAN. JAS. DE FREMERV, 
 
 F. A. HOLM AX. M. C. BLAKE. 
 JONAS G. CLARK. J. D. B. STILLMAN. 
 R. B. SWAIN. J. WHITNEY, Jr., 
 S. II. WETHERBEK. I). X. HAWLEY. 
 
 R. B. WOODWARD. D. O. MCCARTHY. 
 
 J. R. HARDENBERGH, L. L. TREADWELL. 
 
 A. SELIGMAN. CYRUS PALMER. 
 JAS. OTIS, DEWITT C. RICE. 
 
70 
 
 EXECUTIYE COMMITTEE S REPORT. 
 
 F. A. WOODWORTH, 
 
 JNO. N. EISDON, 
 N. P. FERINE, 
 W. M. LENT, 
 GEO. II. HOWARD, 
 A. G. ABELL, 
 J. II. REDINGTON, 
 J. G. KITTLE, 
 P. DONAHUE, 
 E. CASSERLY. 
 W. H. HOOK, 
 E. COIIN, 
 
 W. H. CODINGTON. 
 
 W. R. WADSWORTH, 
 Jos. A. DONOHOK, 
 MOSES ELLIS, 
 
 WM. G. BADGER, 
 JAS. McMsoHAN, 
 GEO. E. BARNES, 
 NATHAN PORTER, 
 A. If. HOUSTON, 
 SAM'L BRANNAN, 
 W. F. WHITTIER, 
 CHAS. L. Low, 
 WM. NORRIS, 
 SQUIRE P. DEWKY, 
 H. DAVIS, 
 LEO ELOESSER, 
 S. L. MASTICK. 
 J. J. FELT, 
 J. W. STOW. 
 NATH'L PACK. 
 
 J. II. CARKOLL, Sacramento. 
 CHAS. CROCKER, 
 JOHN McNEiL, " 
 
 A. K. MARRINER, " 
 (!. L. SIMMONS, 
 F. A. PARK, 
 RICHARD DALE, 
 WM. M. HARKON, 
 
 -loSIAII HoWKLL, 
 
 GEO. S. EVANS, 
 
 L. C I:\NIMG 1 1 AM, Marjsville. 
 
 J. H. BRODT, 
 
 J. S. BOCKJUS, Marysville. 
 
 E. S. HOLDEN, Stockton. 
 
 15. AV. OWENS. 
 
 T. R. ANTHONY, 
 
 C. R. HENDKICKSON, " 
 
 J. J. OWEN, San Jose. 
 
 GKO. T. BROMLEY, " 
 
 SAM'L J. HKNSLKV. " 
 
 JOHN BIOWKLL, CJliico. 
 
 I*. P>. READING, Cottonwood. 
 
 .(OSKIMI BOSTON, Santa Cruz. 
 
 E. W. ROBERTS, Grass Valley. 
 
 The manuscript of a tract, written by Rev. W. C. 
 Badger, and entitled " A Brief Statement of the Sani 
 tary Commission Work," was revised, adopted, printed,, 
 and circulated, to the number of more than 10,000 
 copies. 
 
 On the 5th of Sept. J. H. Chapin was presented with 
 the following commission, as an organizing agent, and 
 dispatched to the Counties ot Nevada and Sierra : 
 
 ROOMS OF THE CALIFORNIA BRANCH OF THE ) 
 U. S. SANITARY COMMISSION, )" 
 
 San Francisco, , 1864. 
 
 IVNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS : That, reposing special confi 
 dence in the patriotism, capacity, industry and integrity of , the 
 Executive Committee of the California Branch of the United States 
 Sanitary Commission have appointed and hereby do commission him 
 as our organizing agent to travel, to lecture, and to organize " Sol- * 
 
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE'S REPORT. 71 
 
 diers' Relief Societies " in the Count of , and in such capacity 
 
 he is hereby commended to the confidence and co-operation of any 
 community, and of all individuals with whom this Commission may 
 If ad him to associate. 
 
 1'v order of the Executive Committee : 
 
 0. C. VTHKKLKK. Secretary. 
 
 He was instructed as follows : 
 
 I . You will proceed directly to the field named in your commis.-inii. 
 and until further orders confine your labors to that field alone. 
 
 '2. You will devote to the work assigned you your entire time and 
 energies, to the exclusion of all other business, of whatsoever name 
 or nature. 
 
 3. In your work, and in your social hours and intercourse, you will 
 studiously and scrupulously avoid all local, civil, political, and ecclesi 
 astical controversy ; and will practically " know nothing among men " 
 but the individual work for which you are employed, having " no fel 
 lowship with those unfruitful works of darkness,'' which seek to 
 destroy the works of others, that we may build thereon. 
 
 4. You will proceed to organize in each town, village, hamlet, camp, 
 and neighborhood, a -'Soldiers' Aid Society," in such order and in 
 such form a^ your judgment shall dictate, each case being adapted to 
 the peculiar circumstances surrounding it, yet all upon the one general 
 principle of regular periodical contributions, graduated in amount by 
 the wishes of those contributing, yet nowhere so hsavy as to be a bur 
 den to any. 
 
 .I. You will neither receive nor collect money, but in all 
 request donors, whether individuals or societies, to remit directly to 
 these rooms, whence due acknowledgment will be promptly made. 
 
 <;. You will graduate your expenses at all times by that true prim-i- 
 ple of economy which avoids equally the appearance of the mendi 
 cant and the prodigal ; and will render at the end of each week a 
 detailed statement of all expenses incurred for traveling, for board, 
 and for stationery, and postage actually used in the services of the 
 Commission. 
 
 G. You will keep a full daily, record of all matters transpiring in 
 connection with or having a bearing upon your work, being partic 
 ularly careful to register all names, places, and dates, in a distinct and 
 unmistakable hand', and give the full name and post office address of 
 all persons in official connection with societies or organizations aux 
 iliary to this body : and promptly and punctually at the close of each 
 week, forward a transcript of the same to these room-. 
 
 n. Keep the Secretary informed as many days in advance as pos 
 sible, where he is to address you. 
 
 9. In all cases give the number of members in each Society when 
 organized ; also, the minimum monthly dues in each Society. 
 
 10. Direct every Secretary to forward promptly to these rooms the 
 names of all the members of his Society and the date of its organ 
 ization, with the amount each subscribes ; and monthly thereafter, on 
 the blanks furnished for that purpose, the names of all new subscri 
 bers, with the amount and date of subscription, and the names of all 
 delinquents, with the date of the last payment of each. 
 
 II. Give every item of expense, with its date, and also, the date, 
 amount, and name of donor of every courtesy extended. 
 
72 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE'S REPORT. 
 
 12. Write up and close your journal every Saturday night, and 
 forward the same to these rooms as soon as may be thereafter. 
 
 13. Forward all journals, all financial statements, and all letters 
 on separate paper. 
 
 14. For all purposes except letters, use legal cap paper, occupying 
 the margin on the left for dates only, and in such margin give the 
 distinct date of each and every transaction. 
 
 15. Acknowledge at the earliest moment, by date, every commu 
 nication received by you from these rooms. 
 
 1 fi. In all cases write on only one side of your paper. 
 By order of the Executive Committee : 
 
 0. 0. WHEELER, Secretary. 
 
 Booms of Cal. Branch U. S. Sanitary Commission, 240 Montgomery 
 Street, San Francisco, September, 1864. 
 
 He was also furnished with copies of the following 
 Constitution, in order to secure uniformity of work : 
 CONSTITUTION. 
 
 PREAMBLE. 
 
 TV;-:, the undersigned, recognizing the claims of our Soldiers and 
 Seamen upon our patriotism and philanthropy, hereby form ourselves 
 into a Society for the purpose of aiding, by regular monthly contri 
 butions, the United States Sanitary Commission, in its beneficent 
 work, so long as such assistance shall be necessary ; and agree to be 
 governed by the following Constitution : 
 
 XAMK. 
 
 ARTICLE 1. This Society shall be called the Soldiers' Aid Society, 
 of . 
 
 MKMBERSHIP. 
 
 ART. 2. This Society shall be composed of all such persons as sym 
 pathise with its objects, subscribe to its Constitution, and contribute 
 monthly to the Treasury. 
 
 ART. 3. The regular dues of each member of this Society shall be 
 per month. 
 
 OFFICERS. 
 
 ART. 4. The officers of this Society shall be a President, Vice 1 'res 
 ident, Secretary and Treasurer, and Collector ; and these officers shall 
 constitute the Executive Committee of the Society. 
 
 DUTIES OF OFFICERS. 
 
 -ART. 5. 1st. The duties of the President and Vice President shall 
 be such as usually devolve upon such officers in similar organizations. 
 
 2nd. It shall be the duty of the Secretary to keep a record of the 
 proceedings of the Society ; to notify the members through the public 
 prints or otherwise, of the time each monthly payment becomes due ; 
 to keep a complete list of names of contributors ; to receive all 
 moneys from the Collectors, and pay them over to the Treasurer, 
 taking his receipt therefor. 
 
 3rd. It shall be the duty of the Treasurer to receive all moneys 
 from the_Secretary, keeping a strict account thereof; and to remit on 
 
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE'S REPORT. 73 
 
 the first Monday of each month the moneys thus received, to the 
 Rooms of the California Branch U. S. Sanitary Commission, San 
 Francisco. California. 
 
 4th. It shall be the duty of the Collectors to collect the regular 
 monthly dues of all members residing in their respective districts, and 
 p;iy the" ~;une over to the Secretary, {akin? his receipt therefor. 
 
 *Tth. The Executive Committee shall have power to call public 
 meetings of the Society, and to devise from time to time such 
 measures as may tend to the furtherance of its objects. 
 ELECTION OF OFFICERS. 
 
 ART. 6. The officers of this Society shall be elected for six months, 
 and shall continue in office until their successors are elected. 
 
 AMENDMENT*. 
 
 ART. 7. This Constitution may be altered or amended at any public 
 meeting of the Society, by a vote of two-thirds of all the members 
 present notice of such alteration or amendment having been given 
 
 at a previous regular meeting. 
 
 As rapidly as arrangements could be perfected, the 
 following gentlemen, each furnished with a copy of the 
 above Commission and Instructions, and with copies of 
 the Constitution, were sent to their several fields, as 
 designated : 
 
 Sept. 12, S. S. WHEELER,. . . . Amador and Calaveras Counties. 
 
 12, R. X. BELLOWS Sonoma and Napa 
 
 15, HIRAM HAMILTON,.. .Idaho Territory. 
 
 21, J. B. RICHARDSON,. .Solano County 
 
 26, D. T. TRUETT, Yolo and Colusi Counties. 
 
 26, S. T. DODSON, Sutter and Butte 
 
 26, HARVEY GILBERT, . . . Contra Costa and Marin Counties. 
 
 26, EDW'D L. WILLIAMS, Monterey and Santa Cruz " 
 
 2*>. H. H. HOLTON, Tuolumne and Mariposa 
 
 Oct. 3, SAMUEL PILLSBCRY, . Alameda and Santa Clara " 
 
 3, CHARLES A. Low, . . . Placer County. 
 
 3, W. B. H. DODSON,. .Lake and Mendocino Counties. 
 
 3, A. X. ELLIOTT Tehama County. 
 
 3, ROBERT KELLEN. Shasta, Trinity, and Siskiyou Counties 
 
 To these agents were furnished blank posters, with 
 which to announce their meetings, blank books, station 
 ery and postage stamps for use, and the publications 
 of the parent Commission, as freely as they were re 
 ceived, for distribution. 
 
 Thus equipped, they entered upon their work. Mr. 
 Bellows, when through with Sonoma and Napa coun 
 ties, was dispatched to, and canvassed successively, Yuba, 
 San Joaquin and a part of Sacramento counties. Mr. 
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74 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE'S REPORT. 
 
 Wheeler was re-commissioried for Merced, Stanislaus and 
 Frezno counties ; Mr. Low for San Mateo, and Mr. Cha- 
 pin for El Dorado, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Los 
 Angeles and San Diego counties ; and again for Hum- 
 boldt, Klamath and Del Norte, thus completing a thor 
 ough canvass of the State. 
 
 The whole number of Societies organized was 305. 
 The whole expense of this work, for salaries, traveling 
 expenses, etc., was $5,976.93. 
 
 The receipts, through the instrumentalities used by 
 these Societies, have been $16,039.30 currency? 
 $73,125.33 coin. The receipts from other sources, aside 
 from San Francisco, have been $394.00 currency, 
 $19,209.92, which, added to the $3,741.85 currency, 
 $80,092.80 coin, paid by the latter, make a grand total 
 of receipts, from August 15th, 1864, of $20,175.15 
 currency, and $172,428.05 coin. 
 
 The disbursements have been as per Treasurer's state 
 ment (which see on page 87). 
 
 In the month of February last, your Committee sus 
 tained a severe bereavement in the death of Frederick 
 A. Woodworth, one of its original members, and to the 
 time of his removal from us, an active, faithful, and zeal 
 ous co-laborer. 
 
 In token of our high esteem of Mr. Woodworth, the 
 following action was had: 
 
 ROOMS CALIFORNIA BRANCH U. S. SANITARY COMMISSION, ) 
 SAN FRANCISCO, February 8th, 18(55. \ 
 
 Whereas, FREDERICK A. WOODWORTH, late member of the Execu 
 tive Committee of the California ]>winch of the U. S. Sanitary Com 
 mission, has been, by the decree of Infinite Wisdom, removed from 
 the scones of hi.-' earthly labor; therefore, 
 
 RESOLVED, That in the death of Mr. Woodworth, this body h;;s 
 lost a member of such full and rich development of manly powers : 
 such constant fidelity to duty; such warm and untiring devotit/u to 
 the cause of humanity, in behalf of our sick and wounded soldiers ; 
 such unswerving integrity ; such wisdom in council, and such prompt 
 ness in action, as to render the bereavement one of peculiar pain and 
 sadness. 
 
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE'S REPORT. 75 
 
 That in his death this city loses one of her earliest and 
 -ideiits. devoted from the day of'his arrival to the close of his 
 lit',' i:> each of her interests, social and political, literary and commer 
 cial ; charitable and philanthropic to a degree equalled by few ex- 
 i by none. 
 
 I,VED, That a copy of these Resolutions, duly attested, be pre 
 sented to the afflicted relatives of the deceased, and that the same be 
 spread in full upon our minutes. 
 
 Unanimously adopted in special meeting of the Executive Commit 
 tee, this eighth day of February, 1865. 
 
 I). C. McRCER. Chairman. 
 Attest: O. C. WHEEI.ER, Secretary. 
 
 Under advice from New York, the following Circular 
 was as dated, issued and served to all our societies : 
 
 U. S. S ANITA UY COMMISSION CAL. BRANCH. / 
 Rooms No. 240 Montgomery Street, \ 
 
 SA\ FRANCISCO, Aug. 23d, W>:>. 
 
 To the (>''! n "nl M -miters of the Soldiers' Aid Societies, tributary through 
 thix Branch to the U. S. Sanitary Commission : 
 
 The following communication, just received at these Rooms, cannot 
 fail to be of interest to every patriot : 
 
 To O. C. WHEELER, ESQ., Secretary of the California Branch U. S. 
 Sanitary Commission : 
 
 When you have received from your Soldiers' Aid Societies, what 
 balances remain in their hands, and have forwarded to us what thus 
 may accrue, we release you from further duty, and authorize you to 
 close up the affairs and terminate the existence of the California 
 Branch. 
 
 The memory of California's beneficence will live forever. All the 
 gold in her hills and rivers is sanctified by the generous tribute she 
 has laid on the altar of our country. 
 
 It >hall be the grateful duty of this Commission to record on one 
 of the brightest pages of its history, the brilliant and immortal tale 
 of California's lavish and never-failing devotion to the hospitals and 
 battle-fields of this now gloriously finished war. Make this announce 
 ment to our noble Branches in Nevada, Oregon, and along the whole 
 Pacific Coast. 1 shall write each of them and your Branch also. 
 
 Perpetual thanks and honor to the people of San Francisco, to 
 the memory of T. Starr King, and to the immediate Board in charge 
 of the California Branch, for labors, sacrifices and inspirations, which 
 cannot be over estimated. 
 
 HENRY W. BELLOWS, 
 President U. S. Sanitary Commission. 
 
 We hail with peculiar delight the time when we can echo the 
 statement of the parent institution : "It is enough." 
 
 Please remit, at once, to these Rooms, any balance that may be in 
 your hands for this object, that we may forward, as directed, to New 
 York, and thus close up and discharge our only remaining responsibil 
 ities. 
 
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 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE S REPORT. 
 
 Also, please forward statement in detail, of all remittances made by 
 your Society to this Branch. We send you blank form, which please 
 be very particular to fill with NAME of your Society, and POST OFFICE 
 ADDRESS ; also, the date and amount of each remittance, stating what 
 amount was in coin, and what in currency, and how transmitted. 
 
 We desire that these blanks may be tilled and returned with the 
 least possible delay. Any books, papers, or documents which may be 
 in your possession, and which would aid in completing a full and de 
 tailed account of all the transactions of the Commission, please also 
 forward to us with as little delay as may be. 
 
 When this shall have been done, please accept, on behalf of our 
 afflicted fellow men. for whom you have so generously contributed, and 
 so earnestly labored, the sincere thanks of the Executive Committee, 
 and of the entire Branch. 
 
 By order of the Executive Committee. 
 
 (). C. WHEELER, Secretary. 
 
 Sample of blank alluded to above : 
 
 OFFICIAL STATEMENT OF REMITTANCES 
 
 From the Soldiers' Aid Society ,of , Post Office, , to the 
 
 California Branch of the U. S. Sanitary Commission. 
 
 Mouth. 
 
 Day. 
 
 Year. 
 
 Legal Tenders. 
 
 Coin, or Coin 
 Drafts. 
 
 HOW FOKWAUDKD. 
 
 Mail. 
 
 Kxpret-s. 
 
 If per'y by whom 
 
 
 
 
 $ 
 
 eta. 
 
 $ 
 
 cts. 
 
 
 
 
 The following letters having been received, the affairs 
 of the Commission were in accordance therewith closed 
 with all proper dispatch . 
 
 U. S. SANITARY COMMISSION, 823 BROADWAY, ) 
 NEW YORK, July 9th, 1865. j 
 O. C. WHKELER, ESQ., Secretary of the California Branch of the U. S. 
 
 Sanitary Commission : 
 
 DEAR SIR : I sent you a telegram on the 8th instant, of -which a 
 copy is inclosed, and which may possibly, from the derangement of the 
 line, not have reached you at all, or only after much delay, It is with 
 a divided feeling, half pleasure, half pain, that I announce the hour 
 when it is possible to close up the long and glorious work of the San 
 itary Coin mission, and to release California from her onerous yet cheer 
 fully-borne duty of supplying the wants of our treasury and acting the 
 part of chief purveyor for the wants of our sick and wounded sol 
 diers. When you have remitted what may and must flow in for a few 
 weeks to come in spite of the announcement that the work is sub 
 stantially over, the California Branch is heraby authorized by us to 
 wind up its existence. I inclosed a general circular to our branches 
 making the same announcement to them, and explaining the present 
 condition of aTairs. The Commission itself will probably exist for a 
 
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 year longer. an( l m some of its Branches may have some further work 
 to do. But it will call for no more money and no further supplies, 
 deeming that with prudence it will have enough to meet the wants of 
 the soldiers still in the field or on the way home. We shall carry on 
 a very extensive business in collecting back pay, pensions, and boun 
 ties, through the nxt six or eight months, not having less than one 
 hundred and fifty offices open in the chief centres of population 
 throughout the country, and this will cost a hundred or two thousands 
 of dollars, saving the soldiers perhaps millions that would otherwise 
 fall into the maw of plunderers everywhere lying in wait to devour 
 their earnings. It is not probable that we shall carry out our partly 
 formed purpose of permanent asylums for disabled, discharged soldiers, 
 simply because it has, now become plain that the States will in their 
 emulation and gratitude, overdo this work, and make any efforts of 
 ours to nationalize the movement, superfluous and vain. It has been 
 the evident policy of the Government to send the soldiers back to 
 their own States" to be mustered out, and this has re-produced the 
 State feeling and the local responsibility in regard to the future of the 
 soldiers, which we had hoped would have merged itself into a national 
 sentiment and a movement independent of State lines. The Sanitary 
 Commission will, under these circumstances, do its best to give the 
 State Asylums the benefit of any experience it may possess ; but be 
 yond this it will not go. 
 
 It is impossible to close this communication without expressing 
 anew the sense of the obligations under which California has laid the 
 country, the army, and the Sanitary Commission, by its long con 
 tinued, systematic, and overflowing beneficence. Its first great contri 
 bution of one hundred thousand dollars to our treasury raised the 
 whole standard of charity to our cause. Animated by the large con 
 ceptions of mercy implied in her offering, other communities opened 
 their hearts, and hands with a wider generosity. The Commission 
 itself broadened the 'sweep of its activities and deepened its plans. 
 From that golden moment when California, through the Citizens' 
 Committee of San Francisco, telegraphed us the gift of one hundred 
 thousand dollars, the fortunes and future of the U. S. Sanitary Com 
 mission were made certain. It never had a dark or doubtful hour 
 afterwards. Money and supplies flowed freely into its treasury and its 
 depots, and its adequacy to its vast undertaking was assured. Since 
 then, by monthly instalments chiefly, you have increased jour benefi 
 cence till it reaches the extraordinary sum of $1,221,428.17. 
 
 What a glorious record is this for your young und distant State . 
 Is it too much to say that this gift has enriched California as much as 
 it has benefited the national cause.and the sufferers by the war? 
 very money you have contributed has deepened a.s well as expi 
 vour patriotism. The raising of it has diffused important information, 
 elicited truth and feeling, quicki-n-d the indifferent, counteracted the 
 zeal of our enemies, and kept our cause steadily in the hearts and 
 minda of our people. Moreover, it has won for California an interest. 
 ivpect and affection, which is diffused throughout the civilized wor 
 which will increase when the final record of this common work is mad* 
 up and fully understood. There is now no motive for praising t 
 ifornia except that of real gratitude and sincere appreciation. 
 
 To each and every zentleman in the original Citizen's Committee. 
 
78 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE'S KEPORT. 
 
 or who has since worked in that body, and to each and every member 
 of the Board of the California Branch. I offer in the name of the U. 
 S. Sanitary Commission, the tribute of our profoundest thanks for 
 their invaluable services. To all those who, in the other cities. 
 counties and towns, or in the camps and mines, have led local mo\v- 
 meiits for the benefit of the soldiers through us, we return our most 
 cordial gratitude. And to each and every single benefactor, be it only 
 of a dime, or be it of a thousand dollars, who lias contributed to swell 
 this vast stream of mercy that has steadily set from the (.Jolden (rale 
 towards the distant coast where the war was turning the brooks and 
 rivers red with its blood, we offer the homage of our heartfelt love and 
 admiration. The war has ended with its glorious results for humanity 
 and the nation! Your part in it has been almost exclusively one of 
 sympathy and consolation. Your record is complete. California 
 never held back her oil and wine, while one wound was smarting. She 
 never ceased her beneficence till her almon;vs cried, " Enough ! 
 Enough !" 
 
 With profound gratitude and respect, 
 
 I am, yours truly, 
 I1EMIY W. BELLOWS, 
 President U. S. Sanitary Commission. 
 
 WALPOLK, N. IT., July 28, 18G5. 
 
 0. C. WIIRKLKR, ESQ., Secretary Cal. Branch U. S. San. Commission : 
 My dear Sir : I telegraphed you three weeks ago, at length, and 
 wrote you fully by the following steamer, announcing that ""we had 
 ceased calling for money and supplies, and were rapidly winding 
 up our affairs, and that we released the California Branch from 
 any further duty, except that of remitting its balance in hand, and 
 in due time furnishing us as full an account as possible of the 
 whole work of California for permanent record. 1 trust the 
 Board, before disbanding, will feel the importance of making not 
 only an accurate and full statement of its own labors, but" will, 
 as far as possible, collect the statistics and history of the 
 whole movement of California (from its inception to its close) in 
 behalf of our sick and wounded soldiers, giving due credit to the begin 
 ners and those who stood firm to the end. The starters of the original 
 Fund Committee ought to be remembered. A precise and credible 
 history of this whole affair is due to the honor of California; and voiir 
 Board cannot render the State a better service than to employ a suit 
 able person to devote himself to this record for the necessary time. 
 U e have called on all our Branches to make a similar return to us, to 
 appear (in its results) in our final history. That history may employ 
 a year or two in its preparation. We mean to make it worthy of our 
 great work, and the American people, who have labored through us 
 No page or chapter in it ought to be more brilliant than that which 
 California furnishes ! Let me add that we hope to collect in a com 
 mon centre, for final preservation and eternal memory, the archives of 
 our Commission, and the books and accounts of all our Branches and 
 we beg you, when you have done with your records and papers to 
 
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE'S REPORT. 79 
 
 . them to us, to be incorporated with the general store in some 
 fire-proof building to he devoted to their protection at Washington. 
 
 Your two letters of the 12th and '2,'hl of .June are before me now. 
 They refer first, to your wish that we should forward trophies and 
 objects of interest connected with the war. for a room in the " Indus 
 trial Fair," of September next. I suppose the stopping of the Com 
 mission's work will render this effort superfluous, and unless your 
 Hoard continues its existence on some new basis. 1 shall assume that 
 it is abandoned. Any service the Commission (which will not form 
 ally break up until October 1.) can render your Branch (should it. 
 under any other name, hold on for a few months) in this or any other 
 way we shall gratefully attempt, if the Branch renews the request. 
 
 I >h:ill reply to your four questions for which you ask telegraphic 
 despatch, by the wire. But 1 will expand my answers here. 
 
 1. You ask : "l)o you favor the establishment of a Soldiers' Home 
 on the Pacific Coast?" I answer "Yes ;" but not under the auspices 
 of the Sanitary Commission. We are going to give up the ghost fully 
 and finally. VVe shall no longer consider our branches as ours, after 
 they have received a formal notice, as you have, to wind up affairs and 
 accounts and report to us finally. Several of our branches have re-or 
 ganized for local work under a 'local title, and there is no reason why 
 YOU .-hould not do so. You can then, as the " California Soldiers' Re 
 lief Association." or by any title you choose, start a "Soldiers' Home," 
 and collect money for its support. 
 
 _'. You ask: ' J)o you authorize this Branch to retain, for such pur 
 pose, a few thousand dollars now in its treasury?" I must answer 
 ' No." Because we shall need in winding up, all the money that actu 
 ally belongs to us and has been raised in our name, and we have taken 
 this amount into calculation in resolving to call for no more. 
 
 3. I>o you authorize this Branch to continue to work a few months 
 for such a purpose?" Again 1 must reply " Xo." Because we can as- 
 Mime no responsibility after disbanding both ourselves and our branches. 
 Your Branches will carry '-the good will" of the Commission with it 
 when it leaves IK. and can still have pretty much all the advantages of 
 a connection with us ; but no formal authorization from us. 
 
 4. '-How long will contributions from this coast be needed by 
 ypuf Thank God! no longer. 
 
 I beg to express in this communication, which is so near my last, 
 my sense of the admirable service the California Branch has rendered, 
 and the successful administration you have enjoyed as Secretary of i 
 I rejoice that our hopes were not disappointed in your selection for 
 the post, and I hope your recollections of this year of service will 
 always be as pleasant to you as they will be agreeable to our Board, 
 who have profited so much by them. 
 
 I send. amin. my grateful acknowledgments to each and every 
 member of the Board, to your Honorable President and indefatigable 
 Treasurer, and each and every hard-working Committee-man! My 
 remembrances of those faithful and useful friends in San Francisco, 
 will never fade! Thank God the war is over! California and i 
 Francisco have a noble record in the Humanity which has illustrated 
 our generation in our part of this struggle. Esto perpetua ! 
 Yours, truly, HENRY W. BELLOWS, 
 
 Pres't U. fi. San. Com. 
 
80 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE'S REPORT. 
 
 U. S. SANITARY COMMISSIOY, 823 BROADWAY, \ 
 NEW YORK, September 15, 18(55. j" 
 
 To 0. C. WHEELER, ESQ., Secretary of the California Branch U. S. 
 Sanitary Commission : 
 
 * * Let me now briefly and explicitly (referring you to my 
 letters within of past dates) say exactly what the present position of 
 the Sanitary Commission is. 
 
 We dismissed our Branches from duty on the 4th of July last, and 
 I telegraphed the California Branch to that effect on the 8th of July. 
 Our Branches have now wound up their affairs, and are now preparing 
 their final reports for publication. Of course it was impossible to stop 
 our great concern simultaneously, at all points, and it has gone on 
 SLOWING its wheels, at New Orleans, and Louisville and Washington. 
 We shall bring it to a FI:LL STOP (with certain exceptions hereafter to 
 be named) on the 1st October. 
 
 These exceptions are our "Soldiers' claims and pension agencies," 
 which are in full blast. At least HALF of all the immense! work of 
 settling Government claims with widows, orphans, and .soldiers them 
 selves, is done in and through our offices saving thousands of dollars 
 daily, to oar brave boys and their widows and orphans, and without a 
 penny of cost to them. This work will probably exhaust itself in a 
 year's time perhaps in less time. But it will cost us at least $100,000 
 before it is done with. 
 
 We have one " Lincoln Soldiers' Home," for permanent cripples and 
 helpless men in New York, which is over crowded, and which may be 
 come the germ of a National Institution. Some place of refuge for 
 these wounded and utterly disabled heroes is indispensable. The 
 States are all loud in their promises and their rivalries with each 
 other, as to the establishment of these homes. There are many tem 
 porary refuges already established. But there does not yet appear to 
 be any well defined plan for anything permanent. The two chief, 
 schemes, one under a charter of the U. S. Congress, and another under 
 the charter of the State of New York each containing a Board of a 
 hundred citizens (of which I chance to be one in BOTH coporations) 
 have TALKED a good deal, but really DONE nothing, and I expect little 
 or nothing from either of them. My present conviction is that the 
 Sanitary Commission (although very reluctantly, for we are sincerely 
 anxious to conclude our labors and fling up our responsibiity.) will be 
 compelled to take any residuary funds it may find in its treasury at the 
 conclusion of its assigned work, and found a NATIONAL REFUGE for the 
 permanent cripples of the war asking the nation to supply whatever 
 funds may still be required to keep it in existence and satisfactory 
 activity. We shall certainly not undertake this if anybody else will, 
 but it looks now as if the people meant to throw this duty upon us as 
 the natural conclusion of our great Commission. 
 
 At present we are deeply engaged in preparing the final History of 
 the _United States Sanitary Commission. We are collecting our 
 archives for permanent preservation. The burden of this work you 
 will appreciate when I tell you that we have 25,000 documents 
 (reports, letters, &c.) in the Washington office alone. When our 
 Branches send in their documents and papers, the amount cannot 
 tall short of 100,000 papers, all of which must and will be read, 
 endorsed as to contents, and filed, and the history of the Commission 
 
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE'S REPORT. 81 
 
 be composed from a careful study and exploration of this rich material. 
 We have organized a special Bureau for this important work, which 
 will contribute so much to the interior history of the war, to the credit 
 of our popular beneficence, to the honor of the country and to the 
 general service of Humanity. The several Branches are engaged in 
 preparing independently their own final reports, which will be full and 
 exact. Their reports must be prepared before ours can be, because 
 the results of their statements will form some part of our consolidated 
 History. We are stimulating the Branches all we can, to hurry up 
 this work of putting on record their labors and successes. I have 
 already urged the California Branch to spare no pains to make its own 
 record full and thorough. I hope you will employ competent and ex 
 perienced hands to collect the very earliest history of the whole 
 soldiers' relief movement in San Francisco ; to show who started, who 
 guided and who inspired the movement ; how it grew and shaped 
 itself, and just what part the several COMMITTEES had in bringing it to 
 its final ripe and benignant form of the California Branch. All the 
 benefactors to the fund should be named, and full acknowledgment 
 made. Your whole work should be clearly and fully written. It 
 would make a volume by itself dear to every patriotic California!!, and 
 it would furnish us with the materials for doing the golden State exact 
 justice in our final history, of which her doings must form one of the 
 most brilliant chapters. I trust the California Branch will lose no 
 time in setting about and completing this indispensible job. 
 
 The general history of the U. S. Sanitary Commission is already 
 begun. C. J. STILLE,ESQ., a member of the Board, and a distinguished 
 writer, is the historian, assisted by Dr. Parrish and Mr. F. N. Knapp. 
 It will be a lage work, fully illustrated and designed to lay before the 
 world the full and final history of our four years' labors in all its bear 
 ings. I suppose it will fill at least four actavo volumes. Our aim will 
 be to put the condensed narrative in ONE volume, and throw all DE 
 TAILS into the other three, so as to make it readable by all, while STU 
 DENTS in the science of relief, may find all the instruction they require 
 in the supplementary volumes. It is probable that we cannot get 
 this work out. with all the necessary maps and illustrations, short of 
 two years. 
 
 We hope that your Branch, after using your materials in the pre 
 paration of your own history, will send us all your archives for per 
 manent preservation, as we design to keep with sacred care all the 
 books and papers connected with this national work, for the future 
 children of the Republic. 
 
 As you will see by referring to the inclosed letters, we consider the 
 California Branch as discharged from any obligation to work for the 
 benefit of the U. S. Sanitary Commission. I hope that my official 
 letter discharging it, if not already published with its original date, 
 will now be published, with the explanation of the delay, due to the 
 irregularities of the mails and the dreadful uncertainty of the wires. 
 
 1 telegraphed you answers by date of September 8th, to your four 
 queries. I do not, however, consider that the California Branch is any 
 longer under our orders. It need not wait for our consent to do any 
 thing either with its funds or in any other manner which it choses. 
 We are proud of its deference to us and connection with us, but the 
 hour has come and past when our '-Branches owe us any obedience, or 
 when we can recognize any relations except those of honor, courtesy, 
 11 
 
82 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE'S REPORT. 
 
 gratitude and affection. If you continue your existence now, it must 
 be in your own independent character, and not as a Branch of a Com- 
 ' mission, which, after October 1st, will have no other existence than 
 that of a firm winding up its concerns. If yen draw any other infer 
 ence from my last telegram, (which I sent simply in a despairing hope 
 of pacifying what I saw was a hopeless confusion of missing letters,) 
 you will misunderstand it. I refer you to my letters of July 9th and 
 28th, for a full understanding of our wishes. 
 
 Hoping that this long letter will, in some degree straighten out the 
 blunders of mails, telegrams, etc., and with most grateful and affec 
 tionate feelings towards our late Branch, and all those in any way con 
 nected with it, 
 
 I am, dear sir, very cordially yours, 
 
 HENRY W. BELLOWS. 
 President U. S. Sanitary Commission. 
 
 In closing this report we take great pleasure in ac 
 knowledging the courtesies of a large number of corpo 
 rations and public carriers in giving free passage to our 
 agents and in transmitting funds to our office ; promi 
 nent among such are the Pacific Mail Steamship Com 
 pany, California Steam Navigation Company, the Cali 
 fornia Stage Company, the several railroad companies, 
 Wells, Fargo & Go's, Bamber & Go's. Express, and the 
 Pioneer Stage Company. Beside these, a large number 
 of minor lines of carriers, and private individuals, by 
 the free entertainment and aid of our agents in various 
 ways, saved to our treasury no inconsiderable amount 
 of funds, which we were thus enabled to send directly 
 to the relief of the sick and wounded of our Army and 
 Navy, on behalf of whom we tender to these several 
 donors our sincere thanks. 
 
 We also desire to state, that the general sympathy 
 and cooperation of our whole people has rendered our 
 work exceedingly pleasant, while the plaudits of those 
 high in authority, and the blessings of the multitudes 
 who have been benefitted by the funds we have trans 
 mitted, have filled the year with sources of pleasant 
 memories for the entire future of life. 
 All of which is respectfully submitted. 
 (Signed) 
 
 D. C. McRuER, R. G. SNEATH, 
 
 A. L. TUBBS, A. SELIGMAN, 
 
 G. W. GIBBS, ALBERT MILLER, 
 
 Executive Committee. 
 
TREASURER'S REPORT. 
 
 RECEIPTS. 
 
 CURRENCY. 
 
 COIN. 
 
 Balance from Jas. Otis, former Treasurer. 
 
 A. 
 
 From Alvarado Alameda county . 
 
 $ 355 00 
 47 00 
 35 00 
 1000 
 
 400 
 55 00 
 
 57 00 
 
 1340 
 3300 
 
 500 
 
 23400 
 
 6400 
 3330 
 
 200 
 
 $ 12,559 28 
 
 29475 
 1,599 52 
 52 75 
 400 
 4310 
 
 712 10 
 
 .">:> oo 
 
 237 50 
 8295 
 377 40 
 308 25 
 42 00 
 15 75 
 81 50 
 71 50 
 13725 
 21 00 
 1300 
 
 22 00 
 5 00 
 47400 
 3750 
 8660 
 91 00 
 2025 
 107 75 
 55 25 
 18900 
 11 50 
 24335 
 868 90 
 736 75 
 435 60 
 105 50 
 935 50 
 21 00 
 15 00 
 27 50 
 1000 
 3850 
 1025 
 1495 
 
 " Alameda Alarneda co 
 
 " Amador City . ... Amador co 
 
 " Anaheim Los Angeles co . . 
 
 \laino Contra Costa co . 
 
 " Alleghany and Cum 
 berland .... Sierra co 
 
 " Angel s Camp Calaveras co . 
 
 Vmprican Hill . . .Sierra co 
 
 " Antioch Contra Costa co . 
 
 Alviso Santa Clara co. . . 
 
 Albion Mendocino co. . . . 
 
 " Anderson Mendocino co . ... 
 
 " Ashton Colusa co 
 
 " Aurora. Marin co 
 
 ' An^el Island . ... Marin co 
 
 " Auburn Placer co 
 
 " American Ranch Shasta co 
 
 " Antelope Tehama co 
 
 3B 
 
 From Berrve^sa Santa Clara co. . . 
 
 " Burnett's Santa Clara co. . 
 
 " Ban^or Butte co 
 
 '' Bidwell's Bar Butte co 
 
 " Boise City Idaho Territory. . . 
 
 " Benicia . . Solano co 
 
 " Bin^hampton Solano co 
 
 " Bear Valley Mariposa co 
 
 " Brown's Valley Yuba co 
 
 " Birchville Nevada co 
 
 
 " Brooklyn Alameda co 
 
 " Bodeou . . Sonoma co 
 
 Bloomfield . Sonoma co 
 
 Bolinas . . Marin co 
 
 Brownsville Yuba co 
 
 Butte County, .... various polls 
 
 Bear Valley Colusa co 
 
 Butte Creek Tow sp Colusa co 
 
 Bumvood San Joaquin co . . 
 
 Brandy City . .Sierra co 
 
 Blacksmiths' Flat. Placer co 
 
 Byrnes' Precinct . . . San Mateo co. . . . 
 Buena Vista Stanislaus co . . . . 
 
 
 i 947 70 $ 21,271 25 
 
 
84 TREASURER'S REPORT. 
 
 Amount brought forwa 
 C 
 
 rd 
 
 CURRENCY. COIN. 
 
 $ 94770 
 47 35 
 
 500 
 
 81 00 
 2 00 
 50 00 
 5,000 00 
 1000 
 500 
 
 1000 
 
 26 (l() 
 2 00 
 11300 
 
 22 00 
 22 00 
 
 10 00 
 11 00 
 49 80 
 
 $ 21,271 25 
 
 :;.'! 50 
 6 50 
 11040 
 20 25 
 24 50 
 
 140 50 
 56 50 
 16025 
 30 00 
 74 00 
 20 00 
 352 00 
 28 50 
 84 50 
 
 49 85 
 7 75 
 1,469 35 
 J02 50 
 18 25 
 6 50 
 100 50 
 498 05 
 158 00 
 255 00 
 50 00 
 138 10 
 25 00 
 14 15 
 14!) 00 
 36 25 
 362 40 
 23 10 
 20 00 
 32 00 
 62 50 
 
 16 00 
 68 00 
 283 00 
 915 25 
 12 00 
 14425 
 S4 50 
 1 .760 56 
 275 30 
 210 00 
 
 1,145 40 
 20 00 
 
 .Cahiveras co 
 
 ( 'iiinpo PGCO 
 
 Calaveras co 
 Yolo co 
 
 
 ** CMuvton 
 
 Contra Costa co . 
 Sierra co 
 
 
 *' ( 1 *iroy s Mills 
 
 Alpine co 
 
 " Cliirksville 
 
 . El Dorado co . ... 
 
 ' C'ldSp'g&G'ldHill 
 
 , El Dorado co. . 
 Trinity co 
 
 ' Cox s Bar 
 
 
 Casper River Mills 
 < Cahto 
 
 . Mendocino co . ... 
 .Mendocino co . . . 
 
 ' Cherokee 
 
 Butte co 
 
 ' Centreville 
 
 Alameda co 
 
 " Crescent Mills . 
 
 . Plumas co 
 
 " Clinton 
 
 . Alameda co 
 
 " Chinese Camp .... 
 
 . Tuolumne co . ... 
 
 " Crimea House .... 
 
 . Tuolumne co . . . . 
 
 " Chico 
 
 . Butte co 
 
 "' Colusa 
 
 Colusa co 
 
 ' Contra Costa 
 
 . Contra Costa co . 
 
 " Copperopolis 
 
 .Calaveras co 
 
 " Cloverdale 
 
 Sonoma co 
 
 ' Columbia 
 
 . Tuolumne co .... 
 
 Cold Canon 
 ' Coloma 
 
 Sierra co ... . . . . 
 
 El Dorado co .... 
 
 ' Coose Bav 
 
 Oregon 
 
 ' Coulterville 
 
 Mariposa co 
 
 ' Cottonwood 
 
 . Tehama co 
 
 Collinsville . . 
 
 Solano co 
 
 " Columbia Hill .... 
 
 . Nevada co 
 
 " Cottonwood . . 
 
 Siskiyou co. . . . 
 
 " Crystal Creek 
 
 . Siskiyou co 
 
 " Caswell's . . . . 
 
 Solano co 
 
 " Churntown 
 
 . Shasta co 
 
 " Copper City 
 
 . Shasta co 
 
 " Crescent City. . . . 
 
 . Del Norte co . ... 
 
 13 
 
 From Denverton 
 
 . Solano co 
 
 " Diamond Springs. . 
 " Douglas City 
 
 .El Dorado co. ... 
 .Trinity co 
 
 " Downieville . . . . 
 
 Sierra co . . 
 
 " Dog Valley 
 
 . Sierra co ! 
 
 " Duncan Mills . . . 
 
 Sonoma co . 
 
 " Deadwood 
 
 . Placer co 
 
 " Dutch Flat 
 
 Placer co 
 
 " Damascus 
 
 . Placer co . ... 
 
 ' Drytown 
 
 . Amador co 
 
 " Dougherty's. 
 " Donors unknown . . 
 
 .Alameda co 
 
 " Duroc House polls . 
 Amount carried forward . 
 
 . El Dorado co . . . . 
 
 1$ 6,41385!$ 30,92516 
 
 
 
 
TREASURER'S REPORT. 
 
 
 CURRENCY. 
 
 Amount brought forward $ 6,413 85i$ 30,925 16 
 
 From Enterprise it String- 
 town Butte Co 233 29 
 
 El Monte Los Angeles Co. 44 f>o 
 
 El Dorado (polls).. . . El Dorado Co 18 15 
 
 ' Eureka Sierra Co .",11 mi 40300 
 
 El Dorado County 100 on 
 
 F 
 
 From Fairplay El Dorado Co. ... Ill 15 
 
 French Camp San Joaquin Co. . 19 50 
 
 - French Corral Nevada Co 193 50 
 
 French Gulch Nevada Co 371 90 
 
 Fiddletown Amador Co 828 70 
 
 " Folsom Sacramento Co ;>! (id 
 
 - Forest City Sierra Co 11025 
 
 " Forbestown Butte Co 216 75 
 
 - Forest Hill Placer Co 1.11087 
 
 ' Foster's Bar Yuba Co I 81 50 
 
 " Forks of Butte Butte Co 700 
 
 Forlorn Hope Merced Co 1100 800 
 
 Franklin Hill Plumas Co 12 50 
 
 " Free Bridge Shasta Co j 4655 
 
 From Garrote Tuolumne Co, . 40 75 
 
 ( Jrass A'alley Nevada Co 2.278 10 
 
 Garden Valley El Dorado Co 1 5 00 130 40 
 
 Grand Island Colusa Co 103 00 
 
 Gazlay's Pacific Monthly I 800 
 
 Georgetown El Dorado Co ' 7 30 464 75 
 
 - ( Jreenwood El Dorado Co ..... 58 75 
 
 Grizzly El Dorado Co 10 00 
 
 Gilroy Santa Clara Co.. . !)4 25 
 
 Gil.sonville Sierra Co 77750 
 
 ' ; Gold Run Placer Co 641 25 
 
 " Goodyear's Bar Sierra Co 3600 
 
 " Grizzley Flat El Dorado Co 27 50 
 
 Gold JEHU El Dorado Co 150 
 
 " Gualala Mendocino Co 20 00 
 
 " Gold Hill Placer Co 145 00 
 
 From Hayward's Alameda Co 
 
 " Half Moon Bay San Mateo Co .... ~ ' N 
 
 " Honey Lake Township i l-s " 
 
 " Healdsburg Sonoma Co 1 ' b '^ < ? 
 
 - Honolulu Sandwich Islands. 
 
 Howland Flat Sierra Co _ 4 :! -.' 
 
 Hornitas Mariposa Co ' "' j > -> 
 
 HumSldt Countv: '. '.'. X'.K&fc':'. _W* _J!^ 
 
 Amount carried forward i* 9,015 85j$ 43,209 02 
 
86 TREASURER'S REPORT. 
 
 
 CURRENCY. 
 
 COIN. 
 
 $ 9,015 85 
 5 00 
 23 00 
 
 5 00 
 2 00 
 24 00 
 
 15 00 
 
 15 00 
 
 5 00 
 
 300 00 
 60 00 
 5 00 
 1 00 
 182 00 
 
 5 00 
 
 1 00 
 2 05 
 
 $43,209 02 
 14 00 
 
 12 50 
 22 50 
 
 89 50 
 58 50 
 51 25 
 637 36 
 95 50 
 912 05 
 
 200 00 
 195 25 
 62 00 
 12 80 
 
 12 60 
 266 65 
 8 00 
 
 314 25 
 101 00 
 222 35 
 43 00 
 127 45 
 382 75 
 15 00 
 48 00 
 274 75 
 132 50 
 17 50 
 112 50 
 56 70 
 87 25 
 17 75 
 8 37 
 8 25 
 
 33 00 
 33 95 
 100 10 
 109 80 
 653 55 
 5 00 
 24 00 
 1,639 79 
 
 From Horsetown Shasta County . . 
 
 " Hay Fork Trinity Co 
 
 " Hart's Contra Costa Co . 
 
 " Hanks' Exchange. . . El Dorado Co 
 
 I 
 From Independence Flat.Calaveras Co. 
 
 " Indian Diggings. . . .El Dorado Co. ... 
 " Indian Creek. 
 
 " Iowa Hill ..Placer Co 
 
 " lone Valley . Amador Co ....... 
 
 " Idaho City Idaho Territory.. . 
 
 J 
 
 From Jackson Amador Co 
 
 " Jamestown Tuolumne Co 
 
 " Jenny Lind.. . .Calaveras Co . . 
 
 " Jacksonville . Tuolumne Co 
 
 K 
 
 From Kelsey . ... El Dorado Co 
 
 " Knight's Ferry Stanislaus Co .... 
 " Kyote Lake Co 
 
 " Knight's Landin " . . .Yolo Co 
 
 L 
 
 From La Grange Stanislaus Co .... 
 
 " Lake City Nevada Co 
 
 ' Lafayette. . Contra Costa Co. . 
 
 
 ' Lexinton . Santa Clara Co. 
 
 ' Lewiston Trinity Co 
 
 ' Liberty .. .San Joaciuin Co 
 
 1 Linden San Joaquin Co 
 
 " Little River. . . . .Mendocino Co.. 
 
 " Los Angeles Los Angeles Co 
 
 
 ' Lockeford . San Joaciuin Co 
 
 ' Lake Valley . . El Dorado Co. . 
 
 ' Long Valley. Mendocino Co . 
 
 ' Latrobe ... . El Dorado Co 
 
 ' Loyalton Sierra Co. . 
 
 
 IVt 
 
 From Mt. Ophir Mariposa Co . 
 
 " Mariposa Mariposa Co . 
 
 " Mayfield Santa Clara Co 
 
 " Martinez Contra Costa Co 
 
 " Marysville Yuba Co .... 
 
 " Markleeville Amador Co 
 
 " Magalia Butte Co 
 
 " Mendocino ..Mendocino Co 
 
 Amount carried forward 
 
 $ 9,665 90 
 
 $50,428 04 
 
 
TREASURER'S REPORT. 
 
 Amount brought forward 
 
 CURRENCY. | COIN'. 
 
 S 9,665 90 
 
 1 00 
 
 23 00 
 
 2 00 
 
 5 00 
 30 00 
 
 32 00 
 30 00 
 
 2 00 
 
 27 00 
 2 00 
 
 37 00 
 120 00 
 322 00 
 
 19 00 
 
 $50,428 04 
 67 50 
 332 30 
 242 75 
 128 25 
 43 50 
 42 50 
 50 00 
 18 60 
 147 00 
 41 60 
 125 50 
 155 00 
 51 50 
 20 00 
 19 00 
 53 05 
 245 00 
 212 60 
 40 10 
 109 00 
 52 50 
 13 00 
 10 00 
 8 00 
 24 00 
 15 25 
 
 122 50 
 191 73 
 1.777 45 
 155 05 
 6 50 
 255 30 
 13 00 
 203 50 
 330 95 
 140 00 
 21 70 
 379 25 
 24 75 
 42 35 
 36 00 
 69 00 
 284 00 
 
 544 72 
 109 25 
 
 221 50 
 121 95 
 90 50 
 
 From Meridian . .Suiter Co . 
 
 Michigan Bluff Placer Co 
 
 Minnesota . Sierra Co.. 
 
 Milpitas Santa Clara 
 
 ' Me Ailams Creek . . . Siskiyou Co 
 Millerton . . .Fresno Co. 
 
 ' Mountain House . . . Butte Co 
 
 ' Monterey . . Monterey Co. 
 
 1 Mountain Ranch . . . Calaveras Co 
 1 Mokelumne Hill Calaveras Co 
 Mountain View Santa Clara.. 
 
 ' Montezuma .Tuolome Co.. 
 
 Mooretown Butte Co 
 
 
 ' Mormon Island Sacramento Co. . . 
 
 1 Mount Eden . Alameda Co. 
 
 ' Moore's Flat. . Xevada Co 
 
 ' Murphy's Calaveras 
 
 ' Murray's Township. Alameda, Co 
 
 ' Marion Flat. 
 
 Mpadow A'alley Plumas Co 
 
 Mountain House. .Sierra Co 
 
 ' Middle "Waters .Sierra Co 
 
 ' Mocasin Creek .Tuolumne Co. . . . 
 
 Mountain View Eldorado Co. . . . 
 
 
 VI 
 
 " Xapa City. . . Napa Co 
 
 " Xevada City .Nevada Co.. 
 
 Xelson's Point Plumas Co 
 
 " Newtown El Dorado Co. ... 
 
 Novato . Marin Co 
 
 ' Nicolaus . .Sutler Co 
 
 ' Nimshew Bntte Co 
 
 ' North San Juan . Xevada Co 
 
 ' North Bloomfield Nevada Co 
 
 ' New Gilroy Santa Clara Co. . . 
 
 ' North Fork . Trinity Co 
 
 New Almaden .Santa Clara Co. . . 
 
 Nortonville .Contra Costa Co. 
 
 ' Vavarro River ..Mendocino Co.... 
 
 ' Navarro Mendocino Co.. . . 
 
 ' Novo Mills . .Mendocino Co.. .. 
 
 O 
 
 From Oakland Alameda Co 
 
 " Oregon . Oregon 
 
 " Orleans Klamath Co 
 
 ' Oro Fino .Siskivou Co 
 
 " Olema Marin Co 
 
 " Orleans Bar Klamath Co 
 
 Amount carried forward 
 
 $10,317 901$ 57,836 49 
 
88 TREASURER'S REPORT. 
 
 Amount brought forwai 
 From Oroville 
 
 d 
 
 cruuKxrv. coix. 
 
 .510.317 90 $ 7,836 49 
 
 Mil.") 15 
 25 Oil 
 33 50 
 21 25 
 
 38 50 
 15 00 45 00 
 -175 10 
 1 00 .'!!):', -11 
 133 50 
 648 75 
 403 00 
 40 25 
 152 00 
 61 75 
 111 25 
 2 00 28 70 
 15 00 
 24 00 
 14 00 
 11 25 
 54 00 
 
 6 00' 198 00 
 
 4-1 00 890 00 
 514 00 
 221 25 
 84 50 
 7 00 624 00 
 3.-! 50 
 61 25 
 22 50 
 
 335 00 
 279 80 
 129 50 
 1 10 37 
 353 35 
 15 00 104 85 
 71 50 
 20 00 
 31 00 
 28 75 
 10 00 333 70 
 5 00 612 37 
 58 00 
 48 50 
 43 00 j 57 00 
 
 Butte co 
 
 " Ocean View 
 
 Santa Clara co.. . . 
 Yuba co 
 
 " Oregon House 
 '' Omega 
 
 Nevada co 
 
 JP 
 
 From Patterson 
 
 Nevada co 
 
 " Pacheco 
 
 Contra Costa co.. 
 El Dorado co 
 Idaho Territory. . . 
 Sonoma co. . . 
 
 " Placerville 
 
 '' Placerville 
 
 '' Petalurna 
 
 '' Pescadero. 
 
 Santa Cruz co.. 
 
 '' Pleasant Valley . . . 
 " Pilot Hill 
 
 El Dorado co 
 
 El Dorado co 
 Aniador co. 
 
 '' Pine Grove 
 
 " Port Wine 
 
 Sierra co.. . 
 
 " Poker Flat 
 
 Sierra co. . 
 
 " Poland. 
 
 San Joaquin co. . . 
 San Mateo co 
 Shasta co. . 
 
 ' Purissima 
 
 " Prairie Diggings . . . 
 Plum Valley 
 
 Sierra co... 
 
 " Poverty Hill 
 
 Tuolumne co 
 Marin co 
 
 Pluma.s co 
 
 " Punta Beys. 
 
 Q 
 
 From Quincy 
 
 K 
 
 From Red Bluff 
 
 Tehama co. 
 
 " Red Dog 
 
 Nevada co. 
 
 " Redwood City 
 " Rio Vista 
 
 San Mateo 
 Solano co . 
 
 " Rough & Ready. . . . 
 " Rock Creek 
 ' Roarin" 1 River 
 
 Nevada, co. 
 
 Butte co 
 
 Shasta co . 
 
 " Rattlesnake. 
 
 Sierra co 
 
 H 
 From Slate Range Tship 
 " Smartsville 
 
 Yuba co. 
 
 Yuba co. 
 
 " Searsville 
 
 San Mateo co 
 Nevada co. 
 
 " Sweetland 
 
 <; Saint Helena 
 
 Xapa co. 
 
 " Snelliug 
 
 Merced co 
 
 " Sebastopol 
 
 Xapa co 
 
 " Scales Diggings .... 
 '' Sierraville 
 
 Sierra co 
 
 Sierra co . 
 
 " Sardine Valley .... 
 
 Sierra co. .. 
 
 " Sierra Valley 
 " Siskiyou County.. . . 
 " Scott's River 
 
 Sierra co . .. 
 
 various polls 
 Siskiyou co . 
 
 " Scott's Bar. . . . 
 
 Siskiyou co 
 El Dorado co 
 
 " Smith's Flat 
 Amount carried forward 
 
 |$ 10,490 90 $ 66,991 54 
 
 
 
TREASURER'S REPORT. 89 
 
 Amount brought forward 
 
 CURRENCY. 
 
 COIX. 
 
 510,490 90 
 
 1 00 
 10 00 
 
 3,498 00 
 22 00 
 
 217 50 
 122 00 
 47 00 
 
 i 
 
 22 00 
 13 00 
 45 00 
 11 00 
 
 692 35 
 162 00 
 
 50 00 
 
 1 00 
 3,741 85 
 
 10 00 
 
 866,991 54 
 86 7:> 
 241 50 
 293 25 
 97 (M) 
 105 60 
 373 10 
 
 10 7:. 
 
 10 75 
 749 05 
 267 60 
 24 00 
 16 00 
 85 00 
 67 50 
 67 25 
 
 55 7 7.") 
 
 15 00 
 38 7:> 
 442 50 
 138 35 
 102 60 
 1,082 65 
 707 10 
 639 83 
 166 35 
 157 80 
 18 00 
 112 50 
 16 -j:> 
 106 50 
 1.752 90 
 35 00 
 336 15 
 158 70 
 249 7:> 
 308 00 
 54 85 
 50 00 
 7 00 
 13 00 
 2 80 
 44 00 
 15 4') 
 15 50 
 80,092 80 
 
 293 75 
 44 37 
 31 00 
 223 50 
 336 75 
 52 50 
 
 From San Pedro Los Angeles co. 
 
 Sonoma Sonoma co 
 
 " Sonora Tuolumne co. 
 
 Somerville Contra Costa co. . 
 
 Sequel ..Santa Cruz co. . 
 
 ' Stockton . . San Joaquin co 
 
 ' Sutter County Polls 
 ' Sutter Sutter co. 
 
 Sutter Creek Amador co 
 
 Suisuu and Fairfield. Solano co. 
 
 " Stevens' Bar .Tuolumne co 
 
 " Smith's River Del Xorte co. . . . 
 
 " Sacramento City ... Sacramento co. . . 
 " San Bernardino. . . . San Bernardino co 
 
 ' San Die^o San Die^o co i 
 
 ; San Joaquin Co. . . .Various polls 
 ' Silverville . .Alpine co. 
 
 ' San Luis Obispo.. . . San Luis Obispo co 
 San Lorenzo. . Alameda co.. 
 
 San Mateo San Mateo co. . . . 
 
 ' Santa Barbara Santa Barbara co . 
 ' Santa Clara. . Santa Clara co . . 
 
 ' Santa Cruz Santa Cruz co. ... 
 
 * Shasta . . . Shasta co. 
 
 ; San Andreas. Calaveras co 
 
 ' Shaw's Flat ..Tuolumne co 
 
 ' San Pablo ... . Contra Costa co . . 
 
 ' Strawberry Valley . . El Dorado co 
 ' Strawberry Vallev Yuba co 
 
 ' San Leandro Alameda co 
 
 ' San Jose Santa Clara co. . . 
 
 ' San Quentin Marin co 
 
 ' San Rafael Marin co 
 
 " Santa Rosa Sonoma co 
 
 " San Buenaventura. . Santa Barbara co. 
 " Saint Louis Sierra co 
 
 " Sandy Gulch. . .Calaveras co 
 
 " Susan ville . Lassen co.. 
 
 " Stoney Creek . .Tehama co 
 
 " Springfield Tuolumne co 
 
 " Sunole Valley Contra Costa co. . 
 " Sportsman's Hall ... El Dorado co 
 " San Juan . . .Monterey co 
 
 " Summit Plumas co 
 
 " San Francisco San Francisco co. 
 
 T 
 
 From Taylorville Plumas co 
 
 " Tehama . Tehama co 
 
 " TeleTaph City Calaveras co. 
 
 " Trinity Centre. Trinity co 
 
 " Timbuctoo Yuba co 
 
 " Tomales Marin co 
 
 Amount carried forward 
 
 19,156 60 
 
 3157,90634 
 
 
 12 
 
90 
 
 TREASURER S REPORT. 
 
 CURRENCY. 
 
 Amount brought forward ! $19,156 60 $157,90634 
 
 From Tower House Shasta co 593 75 
 
 " Temescal Alameda co j .'55 00 
 
 " To wer&Bisby'sRch, Calaveras co II 00 
 
 " 28-Mile House Stanislaus co ! 7 00 
 
 " Timbercove Sonoma co 25 25 
 
 " Tule River Tulare co 19 00 
 
 U 
 
 From Upper Lake Lake co .1 20 00 
 
 " Umatilla Oregon ! 5 00 
 
 " Upper Calaveritas. . Calaveras co ; ' JT 00 
 
 ' Ukiah Mendocino co. . . . |."> 50 
 
 ' Union State Convention j 60 00 
 
 i 
 
 V 
 
 From Valley Ford Sonoma co 709 50 
 
 " Vallecito Calaveras co ! 42 62 
 
 " Vallejo Solano co ! 35700 12815 
 
 Vacaville Solano co | 5 00 90 75 
 
 " Visalia Tulare co ; 36 50 73 35 
 
 " Volcano Amador co j 528 25 
 
 " Volcanoville El Dorado co 20 55 
 
 \v 
 
 From Washington Yolo co '. 2f>H 50 
 
 " Washington Nevada co j 329 00 
 
 " Washington School 
 
 District Sutter co 40 25 
 
 " Weaverville Trinity co 145 75 
 
 " West Butte Sutter co HI (jo 
 
 ' West Point Calaveras co ;j2() 70 
 
 " Wyand Precinct j 17 60 
 
 Wilmington Los Angeles co. . .\\ 5Q8 05 52 95 
 
 Windsor Sonoma co i 421 30 
 
 Woodside San Mateo co 98 05 
 
 Woodland Yolo co | 15 oo 
 
 Wyandotte Butte co 80 00 
 
 Whisky Creek Shasta co 233 00 
 
 White Oak El Dorado co 260 00 
 
 Weber's Station Sierra co 13 00 
 
 " White River Tulare co 27 00 
 
 Y 
 
 From Yankee Jim's Placer co 457 00 
 
 Yreka Siskiyou co j 22 00 1,225 00 
 
 You Bet Nevada co 500 67300 
 
 Yuba County Various polls 41 00 501 25 
 
 Yuba City Sutter co 124 45 
 
 Premium on Currency Exchange 34 00 
 
 Amount carried forward $20,170 15 $165,^7741 
 
TREASURER'S REPORT. 91 
 
 Amount brought forward . 
 
 CURRENCY. 
 
 COIN. 
 
 $20,170 15 
 4 00 
 1 00 
 
 $165,77741 
 4,568 10 
 1,889 41 
 193 13 
 
 Exhibition Monitor Comanche i 
 
 " Great Sanitary Cheese and Bar . . 
 Industrial Fair sale of Fruit. 
 
 otal 
 
 $20,175 15 
 
 $172,42805 
 
 RECAPITULATION. 
 
 DR. 
 
 RECEIPTS. 
 
 Balance receiv'd from Jas. Otis, former Treas'r 
 From San Francisco 
 
 CURRENCY. 
 
 COIN. 
 
 355 00 
 3,741 85 
 
 16,039 36 
 34 00 
 4 00 
 
 1 00 
 
 12,559 28 
 80,092 80 
 
 73,125 33 
 4,568 10 
 
 1,889 41 
 193 13 
 
 ' Soldiers' Aid Societies and sources out 
 side of San Francisco. . 
 
 " Premium on Currency Fxchange. . . 
 
 " Exhibition Monitor Camanche 
 
 ' Exhibition Great Sanitary Cheese and 
 Bar 
 
 ' Industrial Fair sale of Fruit 
 
 Totals 
 
 $20,175 15 
 
 $172,428 05 
 
 
 DISBURSEMENTS. 
 
 CR. 
 
 CURRENCY. 
 
 COIN. 
 
 Advertising 
 
 j 
 
 540 25 
 25 00 
 
 18,591 00 
 1,018 90 
 
 203 75 
 225 75 
 2,884 25 
 5,396 67 
 910 00 
 
 1,254 77 
 1,094 20 
 5,976 93 
 4,760 60 
 146,006 45 
 
 3,714 68 
 
 Alass Meeting . . 
 
 Printin^ . 
 
 Salaries 
 
 Office Expenses Rent 
 
 Stationery, postage stamps, loss on furniture 
 and incidentals . 
 
 California Relief 
 
 
 Premiums on Exchange 
 
 
 San Francisco Benevolent Association, for 
 Relief of Soldiers 
 
 
 $20,175 15 
 
 $172,428 05 
 
92 TREASURER'S REPORT. 
 
 REMITTANCE ACCOUNT, 
 
 To GEO. T. STRONG, TREASURER, NEW YORK. 
 
 
 CURRENCY. 
 
 GOLD. 
 
 PREMIUM. 
 
 New York. 
 
 1 Of A 
 
 
 
 
 
 September 2. 
 October 12. 
 Novemb'r 12 
 December 2. 
 
 891 00 
 4,000 00 
 
 2,700 00 
 
 18,000 00 
 10,000 00 
 16,000 00 
 11,000 00 
 
 16,740 00 
 14,300 00 
 20,800 00 
 15,510 00 
 
 35.631 00 
 
 28,300 00 
 36,800 00 
 29,210 00 
 
 1865. 
 January 3. . . 
 January 18.. 
 February 8.. 
 February 11. 
 February 21. 
 March 10... 
 March 11... 
 March 22 ... 
 April 5 . 
 
 6,300 00 
 
 3,500 00 
 1,200 00 
 
 12,000 00 
 3,000 00 
 50 00 
 
 18,000 00 
 2,300 00 
 11,000 00 
 
 10,000 00 
 10,000 00 
 
 14,000 00 
 
 15,300 00 27,300 00 
 3,465 00 6,465 00 
 55 00! 105 00 
 6,300 00 
 17,820 00 35,820 00 
 2,208 00 1 4,508 00 
 7,045 54 18,045 00 
 3,500 00 
 4,522 95 14,522 00 
 4.772 70 14,772 00 
 1,200 00 
 4,235 00 18,235 00 
 
 April 7 
 May 17 
 
 
 September 1 
 
 
 10,000 00 ! 4.400 00 
 
 14,400 00 
 
 Acc't. Chi 
 
 
 
 
 
 cago Fair at 
 various times 
 
 
 656 45 
 
 317 45 973 90 
 
 
 $18,591 00 
 
 $146,006 45 
 
 $131,491 64| $296.089 09 
 
 TOTAL REMITTANCES IN CURRENCY: 
 
 Remitted by JAMES OTIS, Treas. Soldiers' Relief Fund. 
 
 ..$703,774 44 
 
 " R. G. SNEATH, Treas. U. S. Sanitary Com- , 
 
 mission California Bra 
 
 nch 
 
 . 296,089 09 
 
 
 
 
 $999,863 53 
 
 It is due the Bank of California to 
 
 say, that a very large part of 
 
 the deposits with it has been in silver taken at par, while the majority 
 
 of the Exchange on New York was furnished at less than current 
 
 rates. R. G. SNEATH, TREASURER, 
 
 U. S. Sanitary Commission, 
 
 Cal. Branch.