MF1323.1197 Reel 39_0568

California T282 A. H. Tuttle Sec. of State of Cal. Sacramento Nov 7, '63

Enc. copy of concurrent resolution of the Legislature of 1863, rel. to the payment for supplies furnished the Indian Reservation in California

See letter Dec 9, 1963 with statement payment made $24,293.93 send Nov 10, 1862

[ink stamp] RECEIVED AT THE DEC 3 1863 INDIAN BUREAU

Finance - Clark

State of California - Department of State Sacramento, November 7th, 1863

Hon. Commissioner of Indian Affairs

Sir

Please find enclosed copy of concurrent Resolution passed by the Legislature of 1863 in this State relative to supplies furnished the Indian Reservations

Very Respectuflly AAH Tuttle Secy of State By CH [Cummings?] Deputy

State of California,} DEPARTMENT OF STATE.

I, WILLIAM H. WEEKS, Secretary of State of the State of California, do hereby certify that the annexed is a true, full, and correct copy of an Original Resolution

now on file in my office. Witness my hand, and the Great Seal of State, at Office, in Sacramento , California , the First day of April A.D. 1863 Wm H. Weeks Secretary of State. By AAH Tuttle Deputy

Assembly Concurrent Resolution No 14

Whereas many citizens of this State in the years Eighteen hundred and Fifty Nine and Eighteen hundred and Sixty were emploted in the service of the United States by the Agents of the Indian Department, and others furnished the Agents of the Government with supplies for the several Indian Reservations in California, upon the assurance and belief that the accounts therefor would be speedily paid, which has not to the present time been done And whereas there is now an unexpended balance in the Treasury of the United State of the appropriation for defraying the expenses of the Indian Service in this State, and which is applicable to the accounts mentioned, and which has been withheld from the objects intended by the Congress making said appropriation

Therefore, Be it Resolved by the assembly the Senate concurring That our Senators be instructed, and our Representatives requested to urge on the proper authorities in Washington a prompt examination and settlement of the accounts aforesaid,

Resolved this the Governor requested to transmit a copy of the foregoing to each of our Senators and Representatives in Congress, to the Secretary of the Interior and the Commissioner of Indian Affairs.

Adopted March 5th 1863