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ORION CLEMENS' COPYBOOK From: Orion Clemens, Secretary of Nevada Territory To: Messrs. Hodge and Wood, San Francisco, CA January 4, 1862 Description: Duplicate Receipt Subject: Enclosing Duplicate Receipt and Governor Nye's Certificate. TERR-0131 0056 From: Orion Clemens, Secretary of Nevada Territory To: Editors, Territorial Enterprise January 23, 1862 Description: Printing Services Subject: Enclosing "interrogations relative to printing in the Territory of Nevada." Inquires on Status of a Previous Printing Job. TERR-0131 0057 From: Orion Clemens, Secretary of Nevada Territory To: Messrs. Hodge and Wood, San Francisco, CA January 30, 1862 Description: Acknowledgment Letter Subject: Encloses Telegraphic Dispatch Received from Messrs. McSpedon & Baker. Discusses Drafts and Duplicate Receipts Relating to $1,308.67 Combined Vouchers Payment. TERR-0131 0058 From: Orion Clemens, Secretary of Nevada Territory To: F. Tillman, Esq., San Francisco, CA January 30, 1862 Description: Vouchers Subject: Requests He use the Vouchers for His Bill and Send Receipted Duplicates for the Safe and Charges. TERR-0131 0059 From: Orion Clemens, Secretary of Nevada Territory To: Hon. Elisha Whittlesey, First Comptroller of the Treasury, Washington, D.C. February 3, 1862 Description: Printing Subject: Letter is Blurry in Some Areas. Encloses the Replies of The Publishers of the Silver Ageand Territorial EnterprisePrinting Offices. Lewis & Sewell of the Silver Age Dissolved Partnership. Journals they were Working on Not Completed. Advanced on Work Not C TERR-0131 0060-0061 From: Orion Clemens, Secretary of Nevada Territory To: Hon. John J. Cisco, Assistant U.S. Treasurer, New York February 5, 1862 Description: Accounting Subject: Accounting of Drafts Totaling $4,250 From the $5,000 Credited to His Disbursing Account. TERR-0131 0062-0063 From: Orion Clemens, Secretary of Nevada Territory To: Messrs. Goodman & McCarthy February 7, 1862 Description: Voucher Subject: Sending Voucher to Be Signed in Duplicate. Will Forward Them $100 in Coin by Express. TERR-0131 0064 From: Orion Clemens, Secretary of Nevada Territory To: Salmon P. Chase, Secretary of the Treasury, Washington D. C. February 12, 1862 Description: Requesting Funds Subject: Requests $5,000. Has Expenditure of $1,300 for Printing Done in the Territory. Has Expenditures of $3,700 for Printing of the Journals in California, Freight Charges and Incidental Expenses. TERR-0131 0065 From: Orion Clemens, Secretary of Nevada Territory To: F. Tillman, Esq., San Francisco, CA February 12, 1862 Description: Letter Regarding Voucher Subject: Encloses Voucher in the Amount of $750 for Safe and Freight Charges. TERR-0131 0066 From: Orion Clemens, Secretary of Nevada Territory To: Hon. John J. Cisco, Assistant U.S. Treasurer, New York February 14, 1862 Description: Letter Advising of Draft Subject: Advisement of Draft No. 18 in Favor of F. Tillman for $750. TERR-0131 0067 From: Orion Clemens, Secretary of Nevada Territory To: William Martin Gillespie, Esq. February 15, 1862 Description: Journals Subject: Notifies that "McElwain having sold out is going away, and there will be nobody here who can be depended on to bind the Journals." Will Send Printed Sheets to Gillespie by Express to Bind. TERR-0131 0068 From: Orion Clemens, Secretary of Nevada Territory To: Hon. Perry. G. Childs, Nevada Territorial Auditor February 19, 1862 Description: Election Certification Subject: Election Held at the House of Haskel & Co. on Clear Creek. Precinct No. 3, Third Council District, on August 31, 1861. H.G. Haskell Served as One of the Judges. TERR-0131 0069 From: Orion Clemens, Secretary of Nevada Territory To: Messrs. Hodge and Wood, San Francisco, CA February 28, 1862 Description: Acknowledgement Letter Subject: Received the Pads for the Seal Press. Send Bill for Designing and Engraving of the Territory Seal. TERR-0131 0070 From: Orion Clemens, Secretary of Nevada Territory To: Hon. Perry. G. Childs, Nevada Territorial Auditor February 28, 1862 Description: Election Certification Subject: Election Held at Silver Hill August 31, 1861. E.A. Webster, L.R. Tyler and B. Van Vorst as Judges. Henry Hardy and W.H. Van Winkle as Clerks of Election. TERR-0131 0071 From: Orion Clemens, Secretary of Nevada Territory To: William J. Whitney, Esq. (County Clerk) February 28, 1862 Description: Bond Subject: Notification that Bond is in Error, Both to the Amount and Place of Filing. TERR-0131 0072 From: Orion Clemens, Secretary of Nevada Territory To: Hon. Perry. G. Childs, Nevada Territorial Auditor March 1, 1862 Description: Election Certification Subject: Election Held at Franktown August 31, 1861. Elias Owens Acted as Judge. William Thompson Acted as Clerk of Election. TERR-0131 0073 From: Orion Clemens, Secretary of Nevada Territory To: United States of America March 3, 1862 Description: Invoice Subject: Invoice for His Quarterly Salary from December 31, 1861 to March 31, 1862 for the Amount of $450. TERR-0131 0074 From: Orion Clemens, Secretary of Nevada Territory Blank Page TERR-0131 0075 From: Orion Clemens, Secretary of Nevada Territory To: Salmon P. Chase, Secretary of the Treasury, Washington D. C. March 5, 1862 Description: Requesting Funds Subject: Request for the Same $5,000 Requested February 12, 1862. Has Expenditure of $1,300 for Printing Done in the Territory. Has Expenditures of $3,700 for Printing of the Journals in California, Freight Charges and Incidental Expenses. TERR-0131 0076 From: Orion Clemens, Secretary of Nevada Territory To: Hon. L. J. Chittenden, Register of the U.S. Treasury, Washington, D.C. March 6, 1862 Description: Additional Legislative Funds Subject: Requests Additional Funding for Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1863. Estimated the Wrong Number of Legislators in His First Request of $32,830.86. Need Additional Funds of $1,188 for 9 More Members. Mileage Averaging $12 Each. Per Diem of $3 Per Day for 40 D TERR-0131 0077 From: Orion Clemens, Secretary of Nevada Territory To: Daniel Kendrick, Esq., County Clerk of Lyon and Churchill Counties March 11, 1862 Description: Letter of Instruction for Distribution of Laws Subject: Sending Laws to Dayton by Layton's Express. Specific Instructions on Distribution of Laws to Officers and their Successors. Not to Let Them Fall into Anyone Else's Possession. TERR-0131 0078-0079 From: Orion Clemens, Secretary of Nevada Territory To: William Martin Gillespie, Esq. March 12, 1862 Description: Acknowledgement Letter Subject: Received in Good Order 4 Boxes of Laws. Specific Instructions for Distribution of Laws and Journals. Send by Mail. Postage Free. TERR-0131 0080 From: Orion Clemens, Secretary of Nevada Territory To: His Excellency, James W. Nye, Governor of Nevada Territory March 20, 1862 Description: Telegraph Dispatch Subject: Dispatch Inquires as to whether Captain Rowe Could Furnish Men, Arms and Ammunition for Besieged Party 140 Miles from Aurora. Advises He Offered $1000 Reward for William Mayfield. TERR-0131 0081 From: Orion Clemens, Acting Governor of Nevada Territory To: Messrs. Samuel Youngs, Richard Roman, F. K. Becktel, T. M. Pawling and H. G. Phillips - Committee March 20, 1862 Description: Acknowledgement Letter Subject: Received Communication Addressed by them to Governor Nye. Indian Difficulties on the Walker and Owen Rivers. Governor Nye is in San Francisco. Telegraph to Fort Churchill. California Fort is Closer than Fort Churchill. Request Immediate Organization under TERR-0131 0082-0083 From: Orion Clemens, Secretary of Nevada Territory To: Hon. Perry. G. Childs, Nevada Territorial Auditor March 20, 1862 Description: Election Certification Subject: Election Held at Nevada Precinct August 30, 1861. John B. Cormack Acted as Judge. TERR-0131 0084 From: Orion Clemens, Secretary of Nevada Territory To: Hon. Perry. G. Childs, Nevada Territorial Auditor March 22, 1862 Description: Election Certification Subject: Election Held at Job's Store August 31, 1861. Second District. R.J. Gilman, Abner S. Murphy and Thomas F. Allen as Judges. Robert F. Hunt and Robert Fisher as Clerks. TERR-0131 0085 From: Orion Clemens, Secretary of Nevada Territory To: Messrs. J. G. Briggs, L. M. Carter, M. S. Thompson, County Commissioners, Humboldt County March 24, 1862 Description: Letter to County Commissioners Subject: Letter is Faded and Difficult to Read. Sending Laws of Nevada for Officers of the County. TERR-0131 0086 From: Orion Clemens, Secretary of Nevada Territory To: March 25, 1862 Description: Election Certification Subject: Election Held at Precincts No. 1 and No. 2 on August 31, 1862. Rick N. Allen, Amos Kinnie and Stephen Kinsey as Judges. David D. Kinsey and B. Rush Horton as Clerks. David H. Kinsey Delivered to Clemens' Office. TERR-0131 0087 From: Orion Clemens, Secretary of Nevada Territory To: Hon. Perry. G. Childs, Nevada Territorial Auditor March 27, 1862 Description: Election Certification Subject: Election Held at the House of Myrick & Munckton at Silver City, Fourth District, on August 31, 1861. C.B. Zabriskie, James Allen and George B.? as Judges. B. J. Wise and John Irvine as Clerks. TERR-0131 0088 From: Orion Clemens, Secretary of Nevada Territory To: Hon. Perry. G. Childs, Nevada Territorial Auditor April 3, 1862 Description: Election Certification Subject: Election Held at Nevada Precinct August 30, 1861. Calvin Hall and Hugh Logan as Judges. Samuel L. Magee and John P. Bausa as Clerks. TERR-0131 0089 From: Orion Clemens, Secretary of Nevada Territory To: William Martin Gillespie, Esq. April 7, 1862 Description: Letter Regarding Voucher Subject: Policy on Vouchers. Send Copies of the Journal to Washington, as Per List of Names Already Sent. Valentine & Co. Impatient. "Stopping the delivery of the books would have only inconvenienced the people, without hurrying the payment." TERR-0131 0090-0091 From: Orion Clemens, Secretary of Nevada Territory To: Hon. Perry. G. Childs, Nevada Territorial Auditor April 9, 1862 Description: Election Certification Subject: Election Held at the House of John Wheeler on August 31, 1861. Precinct No. 3., District No. 2. Napoleon B. Sheckles, Henry Wheeler and John Teasdale as Judges. James Mitchell and Thomas W. Gray as Clerks. TERR-0131 0092 From: Orion Clemens, Secretary of Nevada Territory To: Major McDermit, In Command at Fort Churchill, Nevada Territory April 15, 1862 Description: Flour for the Indians Subject: Deliver to Mr. David Carlyle One Thousand Pounds of Flour for the use of the Indian Department. Mr. Carlyle to Distribute Flour in the Name of the Government Among the Indians at Carson Sink. TERR-0131 0093 From: Orion Clemens, Secretary of Nevada Territory To: United States of America April 17, 1862 Description: Notary Certification Subject: Certifies that Theodore A. Hale is a Notary Public for Storey County. TERR-0131 0094 From: Orion Clemens, Secretary of Nevada Territory To: William Martin Gillespie, Esq. April 22, 1862 Description: Acknowledgement Letter Subject: Vouchers Received and Returned. Needs the Whole Bill Made Out. Add Printing and Binding of the Journals. Received Instructions from the U.S. Comptroller not to Pay for the Taking of the Census and Pay for 2 Extra Copies of the Journal. Provides Accounting TERR-0131 0095-0096 From: Orion Clemens, Secretary of Nevada Territory To: Messrs. Hodge and Wood, San Francisco, CA April 23, 1862 Description: Territorial Seal Subject: Encloses Territorial Warrant for $100 for Designing and Engraving Territorial Seal. If Bill for $30 is for Engraving the Territorial Seal on Wood then Remit Bill in Duplicate on Enclosed Vouchers. TERR-0131 0097 From: Orion Clemens, Secretary of Nevada Territory To: Hon. Perry. G. Childs, Nevada Territorial Auditor April 25, 1862 Description: Election Certification Subject: Election Held at the House of Hugo Pfersdorff, Unionville, District No. 8 on August 31, 1861. H. Pfersdorff and H.B. Branson as Clerks. J.C. Harmon, T.B. Rutherford and J.P. Wheeler as Judges. T. B. Rutherford Delivered Returns to Clemens. TERR-0131 0098 From: Orion Clemens, Secretary of Nevada Territory To: Charles H. Fish, Esq. April 29, 1862 Description: Acknowledgement Letter Subject: Storey County Record Book Copying. TERR-0131 0099 From: Orion Clemens, Secretary of Nevada Territory To: Hon. Elisha Whittlesey, First Comptroller of the Treasury, Washington, D.C. May 2, 1862 Description: Account of Legislative Expenses from July 1 to November 29, 1861. Subject: Detailed Response to Questions Asked of the U.S. Comptroller. U.S. Comptroller Suspended Payment on Multiple Items Pending Explanation. Covers a Variety of Topics. TERR-0131 0100-0105 From: Orion Clemens, Secretary of Nevada Territory To: Hon. John J. Cisco, Assistant U.S. Treasurer, New York May 3, 1862 Description: Disbursing Account Subject: Statement of Disbursing Account Received. Details Drafts. TERR-0131 0106 From: Orion Clemens, Secretary of Nevada Territory To: Hon. John J. Cisco, Assistant U.S. Treasurer, New York May 3, 1862 Description: Request for Advance Subject: Letter Blurred in Some Places. Presuming Failure to Receive Notice was Caused by the Stoppage of the Overland Mail. Advises of Two Drafts of $100 Each to Anna Steiner and Robert Tousey. TERR-0131 0107 From: Orion Clemens, Secretary of Nevada Territory To: Hon. Elisha Whittlesey, First Comptroller of the Treasury, Washington, D.C. May 3, 1862 Description: Acknowledgement Letter Subject: Request for Advance of $5000 for Legislative Expenses Approved. Mention of the Stoppage of the Overland Mail. Pleased to See that Salary Account was Adjusted. Has Not Yet Received a Draft for Salary for the Quarter Ending March 31. TERR-0131 0108 From: Orion Clemens, Secretary of Nevada Territory To: Hon. Perry. G. Childs, Nevada Territorial Auditor May 3, 1862 Description: Election Certification Subject: Election Held at Silver Hill August 31, 1861. 3rd Precint, 8th District. E.A. Webster, L.R. Tyler and B. Van Vorst as Judges. Henry Hardy and W.H. Van Winkle as Clerks of Election. TERR-0131 0109 From: Orion Clemens, Secretary of Nevada Territory To: William Martin Gillespie, Esq. May 5, 1862 Description: Drafts Subject: Two Drafts for $1000 Each Drawn to Valentine & Co. for Printing 300 Copies of the Laws of Nevada Territory. TERR-0131 0110 From: Orion Clemens, Secretary of Nevada Territory To: Messrs. Hodge and Wood, San Francisco, CA May 6, 1862 Description: Territorial Seal Subject: $30 Draft for Engraving Territorial Seal on Wood. Advises Warrant Will be Paid when Taxes are Collected, Probably During Summer or Fall. The Worth of the Warrant at Present Time is Seventy-Five Cents on the Dollar. TERR-0131 0111 From: Orion Clemens, Secretary of Nevada Territory To: W. H. Barstow, Esq. May 7, 1862 Description: Acknowledgement Letter Subject: Discusses Requirements of Advertisements and Charges. Never Received a Bill with Proclamations Attached. Looking for Mr. Fell to Pay for Making 2 Extra Copies of the Journal Ordered by the Legislative Council. TERR-0131 0112 From: Orion Clemens, Secretary of Nevada Territory To: Hon. John J. Cisco, Assistant U.S. Treasurer, New York May 8, 1862 Description: Drafts Subject: 2-$1000 Drafts to Valentine & Co. $30 Draft to Hodge & Wood. TERR-0131 0113 From: Orion Clemens, Secretary of Nevada Territory To: Hon. Perry. G. Childs, Nevada Territorial Auditor May 12, 1862 Description: Election Certification Subject: Election Held at the Recorder's Office of the Humboldt City Mining District on August 31, 1861. Precinct No. 4., District No. 8. William J. Whitney, John M. Winn and Charles Nixon as Judges. Thomas T. McKenzie and C. A. Potter as Clerks. William J. Whitne TERR-0131 0114 From: Orion Clemens, Secretary of Nevada Territory To: Hon. Perry. G. Childs, Nevada Territorial Auditor May 12, 1862 Description: Election Certification Subject: Election Held at the Recorder's Office in Aurora on August 31, 1861. Precinct No. 2., District No. 1. W.P. Pool, H.G. McClinton and N.T. Carpenter as Judges. D.C. Crooker and Charles H. Dodd as Clerks. D.C. Crooker Delivered the Returns to Clemens' Office TERR-0131 0115 From: Orion Clemens, Secretary of Nevada Territory To: William Martin Gillespie, Esq. May 20, 1862 Description: Drafts Subject: Referring to the 2 Drafts for Valentine & Co. totaling $2,000. Thinks the Department Allowed Bill for Copying the Journals in Consideration of the Council Saving Several Thousand Dollars by Patronizing their Clerks in Preference to and Instead of the Pri TERR-0131 0116 From: Orion Clemens, Secretary of Nevada Territory To: United States of America June 9, 1862 Description: Invoice Subject: Invoice for His Quarterly Salary for the First 2 Quarters of 1862 in the Amount of $900. TERR-0131 0117 From: Orion Clemens, Secretary of Nevada Territory To: Hon. John J. Cisco, Assistant U.S. Treasurer, New York June 9, 1862 Description: Drafts Subject: Drafts Drawn for: W.H. Barstow $40; William Fell $241.60; Valentine & Co. $756; E.B. Rail $253.66; Edwards, Hughes & Co. $14.25. TERR-0131 0118 From: Orion Clemens, Secretary of Nevada Territory To: William Fell, Esq. June 9, 1862 Description: Letter Drafts Subject: Draft to Edwards, Hughes & Co. for $14.25 for Making a Tin Box for the Safe Keeping of Records and Papers of the Legislative Council. "I hope I shall not be called upon to pay any more bills for useless things." TERR-0131 0119 From: Orion Clemens, Secretary of Nevada Territory To: Hon. John J. Cisco, Assistant U.S. Treasurer, New York June 30, 1862 Description: Draft Subject: Draft Drawn for Upton & Co. $326. TERR-0131 0120 From: Orion Clemens, Secretary of Nevada Territory To: Hon. John J. Cisco, Assistant U.S. Treasurer, New York June 30, 1862 Description: Draft Subject: Has not Received Draft for His Quarter's Salary. May Have Possibly Been Stolen from the Overland Mail During the Late Outrages on that Line. TERR-0131 0121 |