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House of Representatives Miscellaneous Document No. 105, 40th Congress, 2nd Session (1868)

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40TH · CONGRESS, } · 2d Session. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. { Mrs. Doc. No. 105. CALIFORNIA MOUNTAINEER ,INFANTRY. RESOLUTIONS OF THE LEGISLATURE OF CALIFORNIA, ASKING rJongress to place the fixst battalion Mountaineen, California 'lrifantry volun teen, on the same ftAJting with otlzer volunteer soldiers. MARCil 20, 1868.-Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs and ordered to be printed. CONCURRENT RESOLUTION. I Whereas the first battalion of Mountaineers, Qalifornia infantry volunteers, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel S. G. Whepple, were mustered into the ser-vice of the United States on the twenty-second day of June, A. D. eighteen hundred and sixty-three, and were 1:eceived by the United States government as a part of the quota of troops required of California during the late civil war, and did service for the government in suppressing Indian disturbances in the counties of Humboldt, Trinity, Klamath, and Del Norte, in the years eighteen hundred and sixty-three, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, and eighteen hun .. dred and sixty-five, and that while so engaged at said service, the said battalion' were fed, armed, and paid by the general government, and in all respects were1 regarded and treated by the government as a part of the volnntecr force at that time in the United States service; and whereas it has been decided by the War Department, at Washington city, that the men composing this aforesaid battalion are not entitled to bounty, thereby discriminating against those meri-torious citizen soldiers : Therefore, · ResoZ.ved by the ass~mbly, (the senate concurring,) That our senators in Con-gress be instructed and our representatives requested to take such pro.per action, by bill or otherwise, as may seem best, to have the men who composed the said first battalion Mountaineers, California infantry volunteers, placed on the same footing with other volunteer soldiers. Resolved, That his excellency Governor H. H. Haight be requested to for-ward a copy of these resolutions to each of our representatives and senators in Congress. Approved February 19, 1868. ·C. T. RYLAND, Speaker qf tile Assembly. WM.HOLDEN, President qf the Senate. H. H. HAIGHT, Governor if tlte State qf California. 2 CALI?ORNIA MOUNTAINEER INFANTRY. Indorsed: Assembly concurrent resolution number thirty-three, (33.) Passed the assembly January 25, A. D. 1868. Passed the senate Februai·y 6, A. D. 1868. JOHN A. EAGEN, Cledc qf tlu Assembly. JOHN WHITE, Secretary qf tke Senate. STATE OF · CALIFORNIA, Department if State: I, H. L Nichols, secretary of state of the State of California, do hereby cer-tify that the annexed is a true, full, and correct copy of assembly concurrent resolution number thirty-three, (33,) "approved February 19, 1868," now on file in my office. Witness my hand and the great seal of state, at office in Sacramento, Cali, fornia, the nineteenth day of February, A. D. 1868. ' ( BBAL.) H. L. NICHOLS, Swreta'ry qf State. 

California Mountaineer Infantry. Resolutions of the Legislature of California, asking Congress to place the first battalion mountaineers, California infantry volunteers, on the same footing with other volunteer soldiers

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California Mountaineer Infantry. Resolutions of the Legislature of California, asking Congress to place the first battalion mountaineers, California infantry volunteers, on the same footing with other volunteer soldiers

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