Annotation
[1] Gregory Yale, Legal Titles to Mining Claims and Water Rights, in California . . . (1867), pp. 401-402; copy, DLC-RTL. The copy in the Lincoln Papers is undated, but Yale dates this order as above. The original is apparently lost since the San Francisco fire. For a discussion of the surrounding circumstances of this order, see Samuel C. Wiel, Lincoln's Crisis in the Far West (1949). See also Lincoln to Leonard Swett and Frederick F. Low, July 9, infra.