the autumn of 1864, by King and Gardner, their notes filed in the 

 office of the United States Surveyor-General of California, and the 

 official plat of the same has been forwarded to Washington and ac 

 cepted by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, and this 

 plat is, in the language of the Act of Congress, the evidence of the 

 locus, extent and limits of the grants of the Valley and the Grove. 

 A map of the Yosemite Valley was drawn by Mr. Gardner, on a 

 scale of two inches to one mile, showing the boundaries of the Yo 

 semite Valley grant and the topography of its immediate vicinity. 

 This map is now in the archives of the Commission, and has been 

 loaned by them to the Geological Survey to be engraved for use in 

 the publication authorized by the Legislature, of which some account 

 will be given further on in this report. For the payment of King 

 and Gardner, for the surveys necessary to establish the boundaries 

 of the grant, an appropriation was made by the last Legislature. 



At the first meeting of the Legislature of California after the pas 

 sage of the Act of Congress making the grant to the State of the Yo 

 semite Valley and Big Tree Grove, an Act was passed accepting the 

 grant on the stipulated conditions, confirming the appointment of 

 the Commissioners, organizing them into a body for legal purposes 

 and empowering them to make regulations and by-laws for their own 

 government. The Act of the ' Legislature also contained provisions 

 making it a penal offense to commit depredations on the premises, 

 and other sections in regard to further surveys in and about the 

 Valley and the Grove. It also appropriated $2,000 for carrying out 

 the purposes of the Act, authorizing the appointment of a Guardian, 

 whose salary should not exceed $500 per annum. 



Soon after the passage of the Act of the Legislature accepting the 

 grant, and providing for the organization of the Commissioners, they 

 met, at the call of the Governor, and organized themselves by the ap 

 pointment of a President, Vice-President, Secretary, and Treasurer, 

 and an Executive Committee. They also adopted a set of 'by-laws for 

 their own government, a copy of which is attached to this report. 

 Copies of all the other official documents cited above will also be 

 found printed with the by-laws for convenient reference. The Com 

 missioners furthermore appointed one of their number, Galen Clark, 

 residing at Clark's ranch, near the Big Tree Grove, guardian of the 

 grove and valley, fixing his salary at the maximum allowed by law, 

 namely, $500 per annum. 



As by far the largest amount of work done in and about the valley, 

 in consequence of the Act of the Legislature, has been executed by 



