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ask an appropriation of $1,200, or $600 for each of the next two 

 years. 



3. They propose to increase the salary of the Guardian so that he 

 may pay an Assistant Guardian, and in order that one or the other 

 of them may remain permanently in the Valley during the season of 

 visitors. For this they ask authority and an appropriation of $2,000, 

 or $1,000 per annum. 



4. They also ask for $800 to pay the necessary expenses incurred 

 by them in preparing a plat and survey of the* claims in the Valley, 

 which has been found indispensable. 



5. They intend to continue the legal investigation of the claims 

 of the settlers in the Valley until the highest Court of law has de 

 cided on their value. 



6. They leave it to the Legislature to say whether any remuner 

 ation shall be made to the settlers, Lamon and Hutchings, for dam 

 ages done them by the action of Congress and the State in taking 

 possession of the Valley. 



7. They ask that police authority be given to the Guardian and 

 sub-Guardian of the Yosemite Valley, so that offenders may be ar 

 rested at once, without the necessity of taking out a warrant at a 

 place sixty miles distant from the spot where the offense was com 

 mitted. 



8. They ask for $1,000 to pay the necessary travelling expenses 

 of the Commissioners and all other incidental expenses during the 

 next two years. 



Summary of appropriations asked for: For surveys of claims 

 and plot of Valley, $800; for improvements in Valley, $1,200; for 

 pay of Guardian and assistant, $2,000; for travelling and incidental 

 expenses, $1,000: total, $5,000. The above is the smallest sum 

 with which the business of the Commission can be carried on for 

 the next two years. 



The above is respectfully submitted, by order of the Board, to 

 gether with the Treasurer's account of expenditures, as required by 

 law. 



J. D. WHITNEY, 

 Chairman of Executive Committee. 



SAN FRANCISCO, November 14, 1867. 



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