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full title being Ex. Doc. No. 1 House of Representatives. Message from the President of the United States to The Two Houses of Congress at the Commencement of the Second Session of the Thirtieth Congress dated Dec. 5, 1848, Washington Wendell and Van Benthuysen, large 8vo in half calf and blue paper covered boards, 1275pp with second document bound at rear being Ho. Of Reps. 30th Congress 2d Session Miscellaneous No. 5. Geographical Memoir Upon Upper California, In Illustration of His Map of Oregon and California by John Charles Fremont, 1849, Washington, Tippen & Streeter, 40pp. The first document has very important information of the War with Mexico, and the California Gold Fields, including three tipped in maps of the California gold fields, first being 8 x 9.75` double map entitled Upper Mines Nos 1 & 8 showing south fork of the American River with second entitled Lower Mines or Mormon Diggings No. 3. The next map is 11 x 18.5` and entitled Position of the Upper and Lower Gold Mines on the South Fork of the American River, California dated July 20, 1848, showing junction of the American River with the Sacramento River and Sutter?s Mill and Fort. The last of these three maps is 17 x 24` and entitled Topographical Sketch of the Gold & Quicksilver District of California by E.O.C.O. Lt. U.S.A., and dated July 25, 1848. There are two other California maps bound in this volume including one 22 x 18.5` entitled La Paz (lower California) and its Environs, Showing the Position Occupied By U.S. Troops and the Mexicans, During the Attacks in November & December, 1847, copy made by Lt. W.H. Warner from original by H. Ehrenbery. The next map is 13 x 14` and entitled Plan of Santa-Cruz De Rosales, & of the Operations of the U.S. Troops under the Command of Brig. Gen. S. Price, During the Siege and Storming of the Place on the 16th of March, 1848 by F. Hassendeubel. Later in this document are 16 fold-out plans of various sizes of proposed military installations in Boston, Philadelphia and Portsmith, N.H. The Fremont document includes a 16.75 x 36` map of the United States and part of Mexico, hand-colored and untitled, but by E. Gilman and printed by P.S. Duval, Steam Litho. Press, Philadelphia, n.d., but certainly no later than 1849. A very interesting map showing California encompassing all of what is now Arizona, most of New Mexico, Nevada Utah and more and Texas, including what is now Santa Fe, N.M. The Dakota and Montana area is labeled N.W. TERy.

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