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California State University, Monterey Bay

Mexican land grants

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California Land Pamphlets, Volume 7 Apr 2018

California Land Pamphlets, Volume 7

Land Pamphlets

Volume 7 of the California land pamphlets contains documents relating land ownership and taxation, the legality of the sale of timber lands, catalogues of lands for sale throughout California and various land claim disputes that include the ownership of Yerba Buena Island and the Fremont Decision,


California Land Pamphlets, Volume 4 Apr 2018

California Land Pamphlets, Volume 4

Land Pamphlets

Volume 4 of the California land pamphlets contains a variety documents relating to land title cases brought before the U.S. Board of Land Commissioners for California, and the Supreme Court of the United States in the 1850s.


California Land Pamphlets, Volume 3 Apr 2018

California Land Pamphlets, Volume 3

Land Pamphlets

Volume 3 of the California land pamphlets contains a number of reports regarding real estate in California, lands with the bounds of Old Mission Dolores, San Francisco Commission to Enquire into City Property; Commission for Settling Private Land Claims in California, treaty stipulations between Mexico and the United States, instructions of the U.S. Department of Interior to the California Land Commissioners, Regulations of the Commissioners for the Presentment and Prosecution of Claims; land titles in California and 1852 Special Report of the Surveyor General of the State of California.


California Land Pamphlets, Volume 1 Apr 2018

California Land Pamphlets, Volume 1

Land Pamphlets

Volume 1 of the California land pamphlets contains a variety documents relating to land title cases brought before the U.S. Board of Land Commissioners for California, U.S. District Court and the Supreme Court of the United States in the 1850s and 1860s.


California Land Pamphlets, Volume 5 Apr 2018

California Land Pamphlets, Volume 5

Land Pamphlets

Volume 5 of the California land pamphlets contains a variety documents relating to land title cases brought before the U.S. Board of Land Commissioners for California, U.S. District Court and the Supreme Court of the State of California. Also includes reports on the old missions and villages of California, U.S. policy regarding public lands, and report on the Reclamation of Arid Lands by Irrigation.


California Land Pamphlets, Volume 2 Apr 2018

California Land Pamphlets, Volume 2

Land Pamphlets

Volume 2 of the California land pamphlets contains a variety documents relating to land title cases brought before the U.S. Board of Land Commissioners for California and the U.S. District Court, Settler's Guide re pre-emption laws, laws of Congress concerning school and land warrants, the Swamp Land Act, Military Bounty Land Act, testimony before Surveyor General for the State of California,


1769-1885 - Conceptual California Maps, David Hornbeck And David Fuller Mar 2018

1769-1885 - Conceptual California Maps, David Hornbeck And David Fuller

Overview of California Private Land Claims and the Public Domain

Conceptual maps from the 1983 publication, California Patterns: A Geographical and Historical Atlas by David Hornbeck in collaboration with cartographer, David Fuller, depicting California missions, presidios, pueblos, Spanish land concessions, Mexican land grants, patented ranchos, lands granted to Anglo Surnames, major hide and tallow collection points, and mission population. The maps cover periods from 1769 (Spanish and Mexican era) through the American patenting process up to 1885.


1982 - Grants Of Land In California Made By Spanish Or Mexican Authorities Mar 2018

1982 - Grants Of Land In California Made By Spanish Or Mexican Authorities

Overview of California Private Land Claims and the Public Domain

The 1982 California State Land Commission publication provides the historical background of landownership in California that led to the private land claims and subsequent patents issued. Contains discussion of the missions, presidios and pueblos. Provides a listing by each county of the name of the rancho (grant), patentee, patent date, patent number, watercourse, Township and Range, and the amount of acreage.