Governor  Riley  allowed  the  members  of
the  convention,  from  the  money  collected
from  customs  since  the  conquest,  $16  per
day,  and  $16  for  each  twenty  miles  traveled,
counting  each  way.  Ross  Browne  was  paid
$10,000  for  1,000  bound  copies  in  English,
and  250  copies  in  Spanish  of  his  official  report
of  the  proceedings.
At  the  election  held  November  13,  1849,
the  Constitution  was  adopted  by  a  vote  of
12,064  for  and  811  against.  The  population
at  the  time  was  estimated  at  a  little  over
100,000  souls.  At  the  same  time  Peter  H.
Burnett  was  elected  governor:  John  Mc-
Dougal,  lieutenant-governor;  Edward  Gil-
bert and  G.  "W.  Wright  as  Congressional
representatives,  etc.
CHAPTER  XIIL

THE    STATE    ORGANIZED.
fN  December  20,  1849,  the  governor
elect  Burnett  was  duly  installed;  Gov-
ernor Riley  and  his  secretary  of  State,
Halleck,  at  the  same  time  resigning  their  re-
spective offices.  Governor  Riley  remained
at  Monterey  until  July  of  the  next  year.  Be-
fore his  return  to  the  Atlantic  States,  the
city  of  Monterey  voted  him  a  medal  of  gold,
weighing  one  pound,  as  a  token  of  respect,
the  same  being  presented  to  him  in  behalf  of
the  city,  at  a  large  banquet  given  in  his
honor,  by  P.  A.  Roach.  One  side  of  the
medal  bore  the  arms  of  the  city;  the  other  the
legend,  "The  man  who  came  to  do  his  duty
and  who  accomplished  his  purpose."

The    first    legislature  (which  consisted  of


MONTEREY    COUNTY.
