Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ..session of the Legislature of the State of California . Litter-bearers, Medical Department. National Guard of the state. A bill was passed by the last legislaturewhich put the Medical Corps and Hospital Corps of the National Guardof California on a similar basis to those of the Regalar Army, andthe same have been reorganized by this department, carrying the billinto effect. Field Hospital, No. 1, has been organized at Los Angeles,and Ambulance Company No. 1, was organized at Los Angeles andlater transferred to Napa. Both of these org
Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ..session of the Legislature of the State of California . Litter-bearers, Medical Department. National Guard of the state. A bill was passed by the last legislaturewhich put the Medical Corps and Hospital Corps of the National Guardof California on a similar basis to those of the Regalar Army, andthe same have been reorganized by this department, carrying the billinto effect. Field Hospital, No. 1, has been organized at Los Angeles,and Ambulance Company No. 1, was organized at Los Angeles andlater transferred to Napa. Both of these organizations are fully organ-ized and fully equipped. With the reorganization of the medical depart-ment and the addition of the field hospital and ambulance company, itis believed that the California troops will be able to take care of and Avounded in the field. REPORT OP THE ADJUTANT GENERAL. 23. 24 REPORT OF THE ADJUTANT GENERAL, NAVAL MILITIA. The Naval Militia of California consists of eight deck divisions, anengineer division, a band and medical officers, all under the commandof Captain George W. Bauer. The Naval Militia is twenty-one years old and is now of sufficientsize to man and fight one of the Navys large cruisers. This organiza-tion has received much aid from the State of California, but untilthe last few years, was treated wdth apparent apathy by the NavyDepartment. It was not able to get modern rifles from the Navy Depart-ment, although requisitions for the same had been often made and asoften turned down. The Naval Militia Avas armed with the old Krag-Jorgensen rifles, which were used for years by the land militia and wereordered turned into the arsenal by the War Department, but whichwere turned over to the Naval Militia by a fprmer Adjutant General,and the matter adjusted only recently between the War and NavyDepartments. I am glad to relate, however, that wit
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