California Militia and National
Guard Unit Histories
Oxnard Home Guard
(64th Company, California Home
Guard)
The following article was copied from
the February 8, 1918 issue of Oxnard Daily Courier
HOIME GUARDS GET STATE LICENSE
It is now 64th Company, California
Home Guard, of Oxnard, instead of the Oxnard Home Guards. Letter
from J. J. Borree saying that .the state license had been issued
to the Oxnard company, and giving it the above designation was
received Wednesday. The Oxnard Home Guard applied a long time
ago to be licensed under the new state regulations. After a time
a reply was received that no more home guard companies would
be licensed. Then began an argument of the officers of the Guard
with the state officials, the Oxnard men contending that the
company was oganized, uniformed and armed and should have a license.
This argument finally won as the following letter to C. F. Blackstock,
who conducted the negotiations, attests:
Mr. Charles F. Blackstock
Oxnard, Calif.
Sir:
Inasmuch as "The Oxnard Home Guard
is already uniformed and armed" it has been decided that
a state license shall be issued to such organization to drill
and bear arms as a company of California Home Guard. Pursuant
to the decision to license organizations that are uniformed and
armed, or that have the funds necessary to uniform and arm the
organization making application for such license, a new form
of state license for issuance to these organizations has been
adopted and same is now in the hands of the state printer. As
soon as same are received by the office a license will be issued
to the Oxnard Home Guard, and such organization will be designated
and known as the Sixty-fourth Company, California Home Guard,
Oxnard, California.
Very respectfully,
J. J. BORREE
The Adjutant General
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