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THE SESSION IN SAN FRANCISCO. 293
choice. 18 Soon afterward, Baker left the senate
chamber for the battle-field, on whose bloody plain he
was stricken down in October 1861. The first through
despatch on the completed overland telegraph brought
the intelligence of his death.
The winter of 1861-2 being the season of a great
and destructive inundation of the Sacramento valley,
the legislature, and the government in all its departments,
was forced to adjourn to San Francisco in January,
at which place the session was continued to its
close. 1 ' The Sacrainentans feared this might be
18 The most important appointments of the president in 1861 were as
follows: collector at S. F., Ira P. Rankin; appraisers, S. J. Bridge and B.
W. Madge; collector at Benicia, S. M. Swain; at Monterey, John F. Porter;
at Stockton, S. W. Sperry; at San Diego, Joshua Sloan; at San Pedro, Oscar
Many; at Sta Barbara, S. B. Brinkenhoff; supt of the mint, R. S. Stevens;
coiners, William Schmalz and Conrad Wiegand; sub-treasurer, D. W. Cheesman;
post-master, S. U. Parker; register of land-office at S. F., George B.
Tingley; receiver of publio moneys, K. H. Waller; register at Los Angeles,
Antonio Maria Pico; receiver, Louis Sperry, register at Stockton, George
D. Webster; at Visalia, Henry W. Briggs; at Humboldt, John W. Eddy;
at Marysville, A. J. Snyder; receiver at Visalia, George M. Gerrish; at
Marysville, J. Compton; at Humboldt, William Pratt; postmaster at Sac,
George Rowland; William Rabe, U. S. marshal of the northern dist; William
B. Sharp, U. S. atty; George M. Hanson, Ind. supt.; Henry D. Barrows,
marshal; Kimbeil H. Dimmeck, att'y; Minor Frank, Ind supt of the
southern dist.
19 The senate of 1862 was composed of the following members: hold-over
senators, A. L. Rhodes, Richard Irwin, P. A. Gallagher, A. St Clair Denver,
O. Harvey, S. A. Merritt, William Watt, Phil. W. Thomas, James McM.
Shafter, E. H. Heacock, F. M. Wanncastle, John H. Hill, C. V. Williamson,
William H. Parks, 0. E. De Long; republicans 3, union democrats 9,
secessionists 3. Elected in 1862: J. C. Bogart, San Diego and San Bernardino;
J. R. Vineyard, Los Angeles; R. Pacheco, Sta Barbara and San Luis
Obispo; Thomas Baker, Tulare and Fresno; G. K. Porter, Santa Cruz and
Monterey; B. W. Hathaway, Samuel Soule, R. F. Perkins, J. A. Banks,
San Mateo and S. F.; A. M. Crane, Alameda; C. H. Chamberlin, San Joaquin;
L. Quint, Tuolumne and Mono; William T. Lewis, Calaveras; R. Burnell,
Amador; A. B. Nixon, Sac.; 0. B. Powers, Solano and Yolo; William
Holden, Napa, Lake, and Mendocino; W. D. Harriman, Placer; Joseph
Kutz, Nevada; William Kimball, Sierra; R. C. Gaskell, Butte. J. G. Dall,
Tehamaand Colusa; Benjamin Shurtleff, Shasta and Trinity; W. Van Dyke,
Humboldt, Klamath, and Del Norte; George B. Oulton, Siskiyou. Repub-
Iican3 14, union democrats 7, secessionists 4. The officers chosen were J.
McM. Shafter pres't pro tern., Thomas Hill sec., A. A. De Long ass't sec,
Archibald G. Turner serg't-at-arins, Charles E. Abbott minute clerk, W. F.
Heustis journal clerk, H. C. Kibbe enrolling clerk, George A. Gillespie engrossing
clerk, George 0. Harriman, C. B. Bonestel copying clerks; three
porters, 4 page*, and a paper-folder.
The assembly was composed of S. B. Bell, J. M. Moore, Alameda; G. W.
Seaton, W. A. Waddell, Amador; J. M. Kunnard, George W. Printy, Butte;
r lhomas Campl>ell, J. W. Griswold, Thomas O'Brien, Calaveras; C. B. Porter,
Contra Costa; Seneca Dean, J. Fraaier, J. H. Dennis, H. G. Parker, El