| Joseph Aram, | Edw. Gilbert, |
| Chas. T. Botts, | Wm. M. Gwin, |
| Elam Brown, | Julian Hanks, |
| Jose Anto. Carillo, | Henry Hill, |
| Jose M. Covarrubias, | J. D. Hoppe, |
| Elisha O. Crosby, | Joseph Hobson, |
| Lewis Dent, | H. W. Halleck, |
| Manuel Dominguez, | L. W. Hastings, |
| K. H. Dimmick, | J. McH. Hollingsworth, |
| A. J. Ellis, | Jas. McHall Jones, |
| Stephen G. Foster, | Thomas O. Larkin, |
| Pablo De La Guerra, | Francis J. Lippitt, |
| Benj. S. Lippincott, | Jacob R. Snyder, |
| M. M. McCarver, | W. Scott Sherwood, |
| John McDougal, | Wm. C. Shannon, |
| Benj. F. Moore, | Pedro Sansevain, |
| Myron Norton, | Abel Stearns, |
| P. Ord, | W. M. Steuart, |
| Miguel De Pedrorena, | R. Semple, |
| Rodman M. Price, | Henry A. Tefft, |
| Antonio M. Pico, | M. G. Vallejo, |
| Jacinto Rodrigues, | Thos. L. Vermule, |
| Hugh Reed, | Joel P. Walker, |
| John A. Sutter, | O. M. Wozencraft. |
GOLD ROCKER, WASHING PAN, AND GOLD BORER.
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MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES,
Transmitting information in answer to a resolution of the House of the 31st of December, 1849, on the subject of California and New Mexico.
To the House of Representatives of the United States.—I transmit to the House of Representatives, in answer to a resolution of that body passed on the 31st of December last, the accompanying reports of heads of departments, which contain all the official information in the possession of the Executive asked for by the resolution.
On coming into office, I found the military commandant of the department of California exercising the functions of civil governor in that Territory; and left, as I was, to act under the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, without the aid of any legislative provision establishing a government in that Territory, I thought it not best to disturb that arrangement, made under my predecessor, until Congress should take some action on that subject. I therefore did not interfere with the powers of the military commandant, who continued to exercise the functions of civil governor as before; but I made no such appointment, conferred no such authority, and have allowed no increased compensation to the commandant for his services.
With a view to the faithful execution of the treaty, so far as lay in the power of the Executive, and to enable Congress to act, at the present session, with as full knowledge and as little difficulty as possible, on all matters of interest in these Territories, I sent the honorable Thomas Butler King as bearer of despatches to California, and certain officers to California and New Mexico, whose duties are particularly defined in the accompanying letters of instruction addressed to them severally by the proper departments.