*** Source: Record of Eighty-sixth Company California Military Reserve; San Francisco?: unknown, 1920?, 37 pgs. Notice: This data is donated to the Public Domain by TAG, 2004, and may be copied freely by anyone to anywhere. *** ---page 3--- would be issued by the Governor to the Company. The Officers of the company were a captain, a first lieutenant and a second lieutenant to be elected by the members, and a first sergeant, sergeants and corporals to be appointed by the captain. Each company was required to drill at least once a week for one hour and a half, and members failing to report for three consecutive drills without good and sufficient excuse were to be dropped from the rolls. The purposes for which the organization were formed were, as declared in the regulations, "to repel invasion, to suppress insurrection or riot, and to prevent destruction of life or property." Provisions which became the subject of an acrimonious discussion, which will be noticed later, were the following: "Companies may in the discretion of The Adjutant General, be organized into battalions or regiments with the necessary headquarters personnel." "Headquarters officers will be appointed by the Governor upon the recommendation of The Adjutant General." These regulations had been in force for several months before they came to the notice of The Old Guard. In the meantime, sixty companies had been formed in other parts of the state. Information came to The Old Guard that a movement was on foot in San Francisco to organize twelve companies of the Home Guard, which were to be formed into a regiment, and that one company, the Sixty-first, had already been organized and licensed. An invitation was issued to The Old Guard to organize four companies out of its membership to constitute the Second Battalion of the regiment. Muster rolls were accordingly procured and signed and the four companies were numbered Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Eighth and designated as the Second *** end ***