I take this method of informing you that in the event of the passage of the California Teritorial Bill, and this request should be consistent with your faithful discharge of Executive duty, I shall be obliged to get a Judicial appointment in said Teritory; or such employment in the service of the Government as you knowledge of myself, character, and qualifications may indicate. I shall accompany this with no petition, relying on your own acquaintance with me as a sufficient recommendation, should an opening occur.