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Cartographic Records Pertaining To California Private Land Claims, U.S. National Archives, Na-1, Grim 2-19-82.

National Archives Documents

A listing of Records of California Private Land Claims that includes:

Complete expedientes (case file). Case file contains variety of textual documents, all in Spanish. Most include a diseños or rough sketch map of the particular grant. It should be the original drawing.

Incomplete expedientes (includes copy of diseños).

Case expedientes (AKA Board expedientes; includes copy of diseños).

Board of Land Commissioners, three volumes of diseños (copies from originals).

Maps separated from General Land Office docket files.

Land Offices plats of survey, 25 volumes of survey plats.

Reference works for researching California Private Land Claims.

Field Notes Of California Private Claims; Also Plat And Docket Indexes; Combined.

National Archives Documents

Field Notes of California Private Claims – Partly from Chart Index E’s, California field-note drawer) showing such field notes as are in volumes, whether governing or not.

Index – California Private Land Claims - Annotated typescript list prepared in Survey Division of General Land Office (Bureau of Land Management). Covers plats, survey field notes and similar records in Plat Room and other sections of the GLO prior to 1952. Arranged alphabetically by name of claimant. Photostat made in National Archives from original typescript copy of the BLM, November 1952.

Maps Separated from Docket Files, List C – Oversized maps and …

Incomplete Expediente, List E, Na4; Records Of The General Land Office, Rg49.

National Archives Documents

Alphabetical Index of incomplete Expediente, List D, with corresponding Docket Number (Expediente Number), designating those Expediente that have drawing included.

Complete Expediente, List D, Na3; Records Of The General Land Office, Rg49

National Archives Documents

Alphabetical Index of Complete Expediente, List D, with corresponding Docket Number (Expediente Number).