into companies, to be mustered into the service of the United States as hereby required. The requisite officers for this force will be commissioned by the Governor.

Done at Sacramento, Cal., this 7th day of February, in th year of our Lord 1863.

LELAND STANFORD,

Governor.

Attest:

WM. H. WEEKS,

Secretary of State.

By A. A. H. TUTTLE,

Deputy.

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,

Sacramento, February 7, 1863.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HEADQUARTERS, Numbers 28.
Camp Drum, February 7, 1863.

In pursuance of orders from headquarters District of Southern California, Lieutenant Colonel Harvey Lee has taken command of said district. Captain A. W. Cullum, of the Foruth Infantry California Volunteers, will take temporary command of this garison.

By order:

HARVEY LEE,
Lieutenant-Colonel Fourth Infantry California Volunteers, Commanding

HEADQUARTERS DISTICT OF OREGON,

Fort Vancouver, Wash. Ter., February 7, 1863.

ASSISTANT ADJUTANT-GENRAL,

Headquarters Department of the Pacific, San Francisco, Cal.:

SIR: In reference to so much of your lette of the 16the ultimo as refers to the establishment of a military post near Klamath Lake, I desire to remind your that the Klamath Lak, Rouge River, and Umpqua Valleys are not in my district. General Orders, Numbers 10, of the 22nd of November, 1860, from the Headquarters of the Army, give the District of Oregon the same limits as those of the former Department of Oregon. The latter are establihment per War Department General Orders, Numbers 10, of the 13th of September, 1858. I apprehend that it will be very difficult to raise even half the six additional companies of First Oregon Cavalry. Thus I will have no troops to spare for Klamath Lake. They should come from California. I shall, as soon as practicable, make the report you require on the subject of the necessity of a post there, having written letters to person acquainted with that region who will give me the information.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

BENJ. ALVORD,

Brigadier-General, U. S. Volunteers, Commanding District.

FORT WRIGHT, CAL., February 8, 1863.

Lieutenant Colonel R. C. DRUM,

Assistant Adjutant-General, Department of the Pacific:

SIR: I have the honor to report for the information of the genral commanding the department that the band of Indians known as the