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State authorities all the information on the subject in his possession. The general requests you to suggest the amount of money which would probably be required to place such works as you may think proper to recommend in readiness for receiving their armament, based on the suppositions that the greater portion of the labor will be performed by the troops.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

RICHD. C. DRUM,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

DEPARTMENT ORDERS,
HDQRS. HUMBOLDT MIL. DISTRICT, Numbers 1.
Fort Humboldt, January 9, 1862.

1. In obedience to Department Special Orders, Numbers 223, Colonel F. J. Lippitt, Second Infantry California Volunteers, assumes command of the Military District of Humboldt, consisting of the counties of Del Norte, Klamath, Humboldt, Trinity, Mendocino, Sonoma, and Napa.

2. First Lieutenant John Hanna, Jr., Second Infantry California Volunteers, is hereby appointed acting assistant adjutant-general of Humboldt Military District, and will be obeyed and respected accordinaly.

By order of Colonel F. J. Lippitt, commanding Humboldt Military District:

JOHN HANNA, Jr.,

First Lieutenant, Second Infantry Cal. Vols., Actg. Asst. Adjt. General

DEPT. SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. HUMBOLDT MIL. DIST., Numbers 1.
Fort Humboldt, January 9, 1862.

1. Until further orders Major McGarry, Second Cavalry California Volunteers, will remain in command of the post of Fort Humboldt.

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3. Companies F and K, Second Infantry California Volunteers, now at Bucksport, will remain there until further orders, constituting a temporary post, under command of Captain C. D. Douglas, Second Infantry California Volunteeers. Adjt. John Hanna, Jr., Second Infantry California Volunteers, will perform the duties of post adjutant of that post.

By order of Colonel F. J. Lippitt, commanding Humbold Military District:

JOHN HANNA, Jr.,

Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.


HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC,
San Francisco, January 10, 1862.

Brigadier General L. THOMAS,

Adjutant-General, U. S. Army, Washington, D. C.:

GENERAL: I have nothing special to add to what I have already communicated. By the steamer which leaves here to-morrow morning for New York I send all the official documents which have accumulated during the last ten days. The storn which has raged for many days past has now become intensified. We are much in want of blanks


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