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for he is now ridiculed by many who before enter- 

 tained a high respect for him. 



I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obe- 

 dient servant, 



J. D. STEVENSON, 

 Colonel 1st New York Regiment^ commanding . 

 8.M. District. 



Colonel R. B. Mason, 



Is^ U, Dragoons, Governor oj California. 



P. S. — Since writing the above, I have received the 

 inclosed note from Don Pio Pico, inclosinfr a commu- 

 nication to your excellency. In the note of Don Pio 

 to me, you will perceive that he is no sooner arrived 

 at San Fernando than he claims to have returned to 

 California as its Mexican governor, to carry out the 

 provisions of the armistice. I shall not answer his 

 note until I have heard from you ; but I shall keep 

 an eye on him, and if I find he is preaching sedition, 

 I will bring him in here at short notice. 



J. D. STEVENSON, 

 Colonel, commanding, 

 W. T. SHERMAN, 

 First Lieutenant Zd Artillery, A. A. A. General, 



Appendix K. 



On the 13th of April, 1849, Colonel Mason at his 

 own request, was relieved from the post of Governor 

 of California, and Brigadier-General Riley took his 

 place. The despatch of that officer, dated 30th of 

 June, following his assuming the duties of his post, 

 is important, as containing an account of the state of 

 feeling in California, upon the subject of the laws at 



