from a Newspaper concerning a plan laid by some person or persons to settle a thousand persons in the .
The resumed his seat and the vote taken during his absence in regard to the title of the book was read, He made some remarks on the subject and thought the resolution was not as it ought to be, whereupon.
Coun. moved that we reconsider the last vote in relation to the title of the book to be published that we may hear the views of our on the subject. carried.
The said he would like to hear the suggestion of the council on the subject, and the reasons why this title was proposed.
Probably a reference to a proposition made by D. G. W. Leavitt of Napoleon, Arkansas. In mid-August 1845 Leavitt sent a letter to the Arkansas State Gazette announcing his plans to send a company of one thousand settlers to California by having the men travel overland through Santa Fe while the women and children went by sea. The two groups were to meet near Los Angeles and then explore the coast to find a suitable location for a settlement. The proposition was republished in newspapers across the country. (D. G. W. Leavitt, Napoleon, AR, 14 Aug. 1845, Letter to the Editor, Arkansas State Gazette [Little Rock], 25 Aug. 1845, [2]; see, for example, “Ho! for California,” Daily Picayune [New Orleans], 6 Sept. 1845, [2]; and “Settlements in California,” New York Herald, 20 Sept. 1845, [1].)