4. OFFICIAL VOTE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, SEPT. 1858.

Judge S. Court.

Controller.

Members of Congress.†

COUNTIES.

Bald'in. Currey. Melon'y Dawley. Gunn. M'Kib'n Dudley. Tracy.

Totals......

|44,599 36,198 44,281 27,759 7,481 32,193 22,842 9,410|

* No returns have been received from these counties of the vote cast for Members of Congress. The vote for Members of Congress does not exhibit the full vote of the State, one of the political parties not having participated therein, in consequence of the passage of an Act by the Legislature of 1858, postponing the election until 1859.

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Table exhibiting the Names and Salaries of the Governors of each State, Capitals, Time of Elections, Meeting of Legislatures, etc. etc.

The people of Oregon have formed and adopted a State Constitution, which has not yet been acted upon by Congress. An election for State Officers was held in May, 1858, at which John Whiteaker was elected Governor and L. F. Grover Member of Congress.

+ Except the year of the Presidential election, when the election takes place on the same day.

NOTE.-Democrats in Roman; Republicans in Italics; Americans in SMALL CAPS.

XXIX.-CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION.

On the 3d August, 1849, Gen. B. Riley, then acting Governor of California, issued a proclamation, in which, after setting forth the anomalous and unsettled position of the country, both in its local and general government, he requested the people, in certain specified districts, to return delegates to a Convention, to form a State Constitution, at Monterey, on the 1st September, 1849. The delegates elected, in accordance with this recommendation, met at Monterey, on the 1st September, 1849, and adjourned over until the fourth, when that body organized by the election of Dr. Robert Semple, President, and William G. Marcy, Secretary.

The representation for each district in the Convention was apportioned as follows: San Diego, 2; Los Angeles, 7; Santa Barbara, 5; San Luis Obispo, 2; Monterey, 5; San José, 7; San Francisco, 9; Sonoma, 6; Sacramento, 15; San Joaquin, 15. Total, 73. Of this number but forty-eight were present during the sitting of the Convention, as follows:

The following are the absentees elected and entitled to seats in the Convention:

Los Angeles: Luis Rubideaux, Manuel Requerra. Santa Barbara: Amitasio Carillo, Manuel Imeno. Sonoma: R. Maupin, J. Clyman, L. W. Boggs. Sacramento: John Bidwell, John S. Fowler, James Queen, W. Blackburn, R. M. Jones, W. Lacy, Charles E. Pickett. San Joaquin: S. Haley, C. L. Peck, M. Fallon, B. Ogden, George A. Pendleton, Col. Jackson, Jeremiah Ford, B. L. Morgan, Walter Chapman. San Francisco: W. D. M. Howard.

The Convention adjourned sine die, October 13th, 1849, after a session of forty-three days, during which time a work was consummated of great importance and responsibility, in a manner alike honorable to themselves and their constituents. The result of their labors was presented to the people to be acted upon, on the 13th day of November, 1849, and was almost unanimously adopted by them as the Constitution of the State.

1. TABLE

stitution of California, the Districts represented by them, their Nativity, Exhibiting the Names of the Members of the Convention which formed the Con

XXX.-STATE OFFICERS,

From the Organization of the State Government, Dec. 1849, to 1859.

OFFICERS. Term 1850-'51. Term 1852-53. Term 1854-'55 Term 1856-57. Term 1858-'59.
Governor. P. H. Burnett (a) John Bigler.... John Bigler....J.Neely Johnson John B. Weller..
Lieut. Gov'r J. McDougall (6) Samuel Purdy.. Samuel Purdy. R. M. Anderson Joseph Walkup..
Sec. of State W. Van Voorhies W. V.Voorhies (g) J. W. Denver (j) D. F. Douglass. Ferris Forman.
Jas. W. Denver. C.H.Hempstead
Controller.. John S. Houston. W. S. Pierce... Samuel Bell. G. W. Whitman A. R. Meloney(n)
E. F. Burton (k)
Treasurer..
Richard Roman. Richard Roman, S. A. McMeans. Henry Bates... Thomas Findley.
J. L. English (1)
Att'y-Gen'l E.J.C. Kewen (S. C. Hastings...J.R. McConnell Wm. T. Wallace T. H. Williams..
J. A. McDougall

...

Surv'r Gen'l Chas. J. Whiting W. M. Eddy S. H. Marlette..J. H. Brewster. Horace A. Higley Sup. Pub.In John G. Marvin. John G. Marvin. Paul K. Hubbs. Paul K. Hubbs. Andr. J. Moulder A.J.Moulder(m)

Sup. Pu. Bdg J. S. Graham.

J. S. Graham (h)

....

Qr.Mr.Gen 1 J.C.Moorhead (d) W.H. Richardson Wm. C. Kibbe. Wm. C. Kibbe. Wm. C. Kibbe...
W.H.Richardson Wm. C. Kibbe (i)
Adj't-Gen'l. J. R. Per Lee (e).

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E. W. McKinstry

....

St'te Printer H.H. Robinson Eug. Casserly (f) G. Kerr & Co. (f) James Allen... John O'Meara...
J. Winchester... SG.K. Fitch & B. B. Redding.
Eugene Casserly. V. E. Geiger S

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Translator.. J. H. Schull....W.E. P. Hartnell W.E.P.Hartnell Agustin Ainsa

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(a) Resigned Jan. 8th, 1851. Was succeeded by John McDougal for remainder of the term. (b) David C. Broderick elected President of the Senate, made vacant by the accession of the Lieutenant-Governor.

(c) Resigned 1850. James A. McDougall elected to vacancy.

(d) Removed. William H. Richardson appointed to vacancy, April 26th, 1851.

1854, and B. B. Redding elected by the
Legislature May 4th, 1854, who was suc-
ceeded Jan. 1st, '56, by James Allen. The
present incumbent is John O'Meara.
Resigned February 19th, 1853.
Denver appointed to vacancy.

(g)
(h) Act creating office repealed.

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()

(e) Resigned September 24th, 1850. William H. ()
Richardson appointed to vacancy.
(f) H. H. Robinson resigned May 4th, 1850. J.
Winchester appointed same date, who also
resigned March 28th, 1851. Eugene Cas-
serly was elected by the Legislature, May
1st, 1851, and continued in office until
the contract system of 1852 was carried into
effect. Contract awarded to G. K. Fiteh
and V. E. Geiger June, 1852, who trans-
ferred the same, by consent of the Legisla-
ture, to George Kerr & Co., February 3d,
1853. Contract system repealed May 1st,

(7)

(m)

(n)

James W.

Secretary of
State made ex officio Superintendent of Pub-
lie Buildings May 12th, 1853.
William C. Kibbe appointed Quartermaster-
General June, 1852, under Militia Law of
1852, which provides that the Quartermas-
ter-Gen'l shall be ex officio Adjutant-Gen'l
Resigned November 1st, 1855. Charles H.
Hempstead appointed to vacancy.

Appointed February, 1857, vice George W.
Whitman temporarily suspended.

Appointed February, 1857, vice Henry Bates
resigned.

Term commenced January 1st, 1857. Term
of office, three years.
Elected September, 1858.

XXXI.-JUDGES OF THE SUPREME COURT,*

From the Organization of the State Government in 1849 to 1859.

C. S. Fairfax.. Charles S. Fairfax.
B. C. Whitman... Harvey Lee.....

Bryan appointed to vacancy, and continued
until Sept. 1855, when David S. Terry was
elected for the unexpired term.

Elected Sept. 1851, as successor of Judge Has. tings, for the term of six years from Jan. 1, 1852. Resigned Jan. 13, 1857. Peter H. Burnett appointed to vacaney.

Joseph G. Baldwin elected Oct. 1858, for remainder of term, to 1862.

*For terms and salaries of Judges of the Supreme Court see p. 90.