On receiving gold ore as security for duties: accompany proceedings of a meeting at City Hall. Resolutions: 1. Gov. petitioned to appoint one or more assayers to test quality of the gold taken from the placers at the Sacramento; 2. Gov. asked to extend the time allowed for redemption of gold dust deposited as collateral security for payt of duties, to 6 months, to allow time for import of curnas [current] money into the country; 3. Gov. requested to appoint a competent person to superintend the conversion of gold into ingots of convenient weights (Not Carried); 4. Appointment of a committee to petition Congress to establish a mint in this town (petition to be circulated in the Sacramento valley & elsewhere) — committee: C.V. Gillespie, Jas. C. Ward, W.D.M. Howard & Capt. Joseph L. Folsom (U.S. Army)
| Date | 1848-07-22 (exact) |
|---|---|
| From | W.D.M. Howard, C.V. Gillespie, Jas. C. Ward (Committee of a meeting of citizens) |
| To | Gov. Mason |
| Place | San Francisco |
| Series | Miscellaneous / Unbound Documents |
| Tomo | Unbound |
| Original tomo page | — |
| Savage copy page | 136 |
| Scan leaf | n136–137 |
| Document type | abstract |
| Source | Savage abstract |
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W.D.M. Howard, C.V. Gillespie, Jas. C. Ward (Committee of a meeting of citizens) to Gov. Mason, San Francisco, 1848-07-22, Miscellaneous / Unbound Documents, Unbound, —, Archives of California, C-A 63, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.Cite the document by series, tomo and original tomo page, as the literature does; the C-A number locates it in the repository. To cite this catalogue entry itself, use https://archivesofcalifornia.com/record/ca63/ca63-d239.html