Turner, J. N.. Turner, R. M.. Tuttle, A. A. H.. Tuttle, Charles A. Tyler, George W.. Van Benschoten, J.W.W Vincent, J. P.. Vineyard, J. R. Waddell, William A.. Wagner, Geo. W. Waite, É. G. Walden, Minor Waldron, Mahlon Walker, Asa... San Francisco.. San Joaquin Santa Cruz.. San Francisco. San Diego. San Mateo Sacramento District El Dorado San Francisco Tulare San Francisco.. Calaveras Santa Clara Sacramento . Third. Twentieth. Twenty-fifth. Eleventh. .Fourth. Twentieth. Ninth, Tenth. Eighteenth. Thirteenth. Third. Thirteenth. Twenty-second. Thirteenth. Second. Eighteenth. Twelfth, Sixteenth. Fourth. Thirteenth. Eleventh, Twelfth, Thirteenth. First. Nineteenth, Twentieth. Twelfth. Ninth, Tenth. Sacramento Fifteenth. Monterey, Santa Clara. El Dorado. Nevada Tuolumne Yolo Santa Clara San Joaquin District.. San Francisco.. Sacramento Amador Amador Nevada Stanislaus, Merced Placer Alameda. Mariposa, Merced Colusa Merced, Stanislaus San Luis Obispo Sonoma Amador Contra Costa Los Angeles. Sutter.. Sacramento Santa Barbara, etc.. San Bernardino. Alameda Los Angeles San Francisco District El Dorado... Santa Clara Welch, S. K. Wells, Thomas Welsh, L. S.... Welty, Daniel W. Welty, Jacob Wentz, Christian Werk, G. W....... Wescott, Jonas Weston, R. S. Wethered, James S. San Francisco Wetherill, S. E. San Francisco Whalen, Peter San Francisco NAMES. MEMBERS OF THE STATE ASSEMBLY-Continued. Counties. Sessions. White, James D.. Wickware, G. C.......... Wilcoxon, C. E.. Wilkins, Charles P. Wilkins, W. W. Willets, Stephen Willey, O. F.. Williams, George Williams, George E.. Williams, John F. Williams, R. L. Williams, W. S.. Willson, I. C.. Wilsey, Levi. Wilson, J. L.. Wilson, J. M. Wilson, M. W. Wilson, Samuel. Winchell, G. Winchester, M. C... Windrow, Joseph. Wing, Austin. Wing, W. P. Winsor, W. B. Winston, Joseph. Witherby, O. S. Wohler, Herman Wolleb, Charles.. Wood, A. Wood, Charles. Wood, George Wood, Joseph Wood, R. N. Wood, W. C.. Wood, W. C.. Woodman, George W... Woodward, F. J.. Worthington, Henry G. Wright, C. C... Wright, M. J. Wright, S. P.. Wright, Thomas. Wright, T. J.. Wright, W. S. M.. Wyman, S. B.. Yager, Cornelius. Yancey, F.... Yeiser, Frederick Yell, Archibald York, Frank. York, J. L. - Young, Albert J. Young, A. R........ Young, George A.. Sierra Placer San Francisco.. El Dorado.. Yuba Plumas San Diego District Contra Costa - San Joaquin.. Klamath, Del Norte.. Contra Costa. Placer Tuolumne, Mono, etc. First. Third, Seventh. Twelfth. Seventeenth. The following list shows the persons who have been elected Presidential Electors in California: 1852-WINFIELD S. SHERWOOD, J. W. GREGORY, THOMAS J. HENLEY, and ANDRES PICO; all Democrats. 1856-AUGUSTIN OLVERA, GEORGE FREANOR, P. DELLA TORRE, and A. C. BRADFORD; all Democrats. 1860-ANTONIO M. Pico, C. A. WASHBURN, WILLIAM H. WEEKS, and CHARLES A. TUTTLE; all Republicans. 1864-SAMUEL BRANNAN, JOHN G. MCCALLUM, CHARLES MACLAY, W. W. CRANE, JR., and WARNER OLIVER; all Republicans. 1868-D. B. HOFFMAN, ALFRED REDINGTON, CHARLES WESTMORELAND, JOHN B. FELTON, and O. H. LA GRANGE; all Union. 1872-JOHN B. FELTON, CLAUS SPRECKELS, JESSE O. GOODWIN, JOHN F. MILLER, JAMES E. HALE, and T. H. ROSE; all Republicans. 1876-JOHN F. MILLER, MORRIS M. ESTEE, D. A. MCKINLEY, JOHN B. FELTON, JOHN H. JEWETT, and H. J. OSTRANDER; all Republicans. 1880-WILLIAM T. WALLACE, J. CAMPBELL SHORB, W. B. C. BROWN, BARCLAY HENLEY, R. F. DEL VALLE, and HENRY EDGERTON; all Democrats except Edgerton, Republican. 1884-HENRY EDGERTON, ALVAH R. CONKLIN, JAMES D. BYERS, JOHN B. REDDICK, CHARLES F. REED, HORACE DAVIS, MARCUS H. HECHT, and CHESTER ROWELL; all Republicans. 1888-WILLIAM H. L. BARNES, JOHN F. SWIFT, GEORGE W. SCHELL, THOMAS L. CAROTHERS, GEORGE A. KNIGHT, HENRY M. STREETER, SAMUEL M. SHORTRIDGE, and LANSING B. MIZNER; all Republicans. HISTORY OF THE GREAT SEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA. At the time when the question of designing the great seal for the new State was being agitated in the Constitutional Convention, which met in Monterey in 1849, there happened to be sojourning temporarily in that little town an accomplished and cultivated officer of the United States Army, Major Robert Selden Garnett. He was a gentleman of modest demeanor, and excelled in the use of his pencil. One evening he sketched a design for a seal of the State, and it was exhibited to various members of the Convention. One of the delegates asked leave to present it to the body, but the quiet Major declined upon the ground that he believed that a knowledge of the source from whence it had come would prevent its adoption. There existed at that time quite a hostility between the military authorities and the nascent civil powers, and there was an especial distrust of the secret mission of Thomas Butler King, with which Garnett was understood to be connected. Caleb Lyon, one of the clerks of the Convention, learned of the design, and readily obtained the consent of Garnett to appropriate it and present it as his own production. As the design came from the hands of its author, it was chaste and beautiful, and somewhat different from the present seal. It represented the figure of Minerva, with the Golden Gate, and a ship in full sail in the foreground; and the Sierra Nevada range in the background, with the word "Eureka" above. The design was referred to a committee, and on September 29, 1849, the report of the committee was considered by the Convention. W. E. Shannon deemed the design a most happy one, but more appropriate for a coat of arms than for a seal. He said that it was unusual for a State seal to contain a motto, and that it ordinarily comprehended the main emblems, and the words "Great Seal of the State." An explanation accompanying the design was entered in the Journal, as follows: "Around the bend of the ring are represented thirty-one stars, being the number of States of which the Union will consist upon the admission of |