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 Your Petitioners respectfully represent that the unpublished archives of the |Cuite&f §:tate0 government, 
 relating to the War of the Revolution, have never been assembled into one collection, but they are now dis- 
 tributed throughout the several Public Departments and, owing to past neglect and present lack of proper care, 
 many valuable documents have been mutilated and destroyed, and those remaining are rapidly becoming 
 illegible. 
 
 Never beWe, in the history of the l^latiott has there prevailed so universal and eager a desire to know the 
 contents of thesBecords, which contain information not elsewhere to be found, but which, in their present con- 
 dition, are of no practical use to the Country. j 
 
 The necessity for absolute accuracy in the history of that heroic struggle for freedom, as well as justice to 
 those who, in w lat capacity soever gave their all for the cause of liberty, rec|uire that the story ofj their sacrifices 
 and their patric ism, shall no longer be kept among the inaccessible Archives of the government, but V 
 become the official basis for a history of that period, mor6 complete than has yet been written. 
 
 Wherefore your Petitioners pray that laws may be passed by ©OltgVCSSi, which will provide , 
 lication of all tlu Archives of the Government relating to the War of the Revolution, in a manner sim. 
 of the Official Ricords of the War of the Rebellion: That measures be adopted for including in such puoiicauiu 
 transcripts from the records of the original di^ltlv'tecn ^ttttca relating particularly to Muster Rolls of Officers, 
 Soldiers, Sailors and Marines not embraced in the Government collection, and also for the gathering of such his- 
 torical matter now contained in the various libraries of the country as may be necessary for this purpose. 
 
 Given from the Hall of our Society, in the City of Los Angeles, this 
 third day of September, 1894, 
 
 THE SOCIETY, 
 
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 In the State of Califoriiia. 
 
 
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