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California Land Pamphlets, Volume 7
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 8
California Land Pamphlets, Volume 8
Land Pamphlets
Volume 8 of the California land pamphlets contains documents relating sale of public lands, California swamp lands, Spanish and Mexican grants in California, Mexican laws relating to salt march and tide lands, title to public lands and various land claim disputes.
California Land Pamphlets, Volume 4
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
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
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
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
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,
1976 - Mexican-American Land Tenure Conflict In California, David Hornbeck
1976 - Mexican-American Land Tenure Conflict In California, David Hornbeck
Miscellaneous Documents and Reports
This paper examines the merging of the Mexican and American land tenure systems and how the two very different concepts of land acquisition, organization and maintenance clashed resulting in a distinctive settlement pattern not usually associated with Anglo settlement. The Mexican landscape, organized according to centuries of Spanish tradition, was the antithesis of the type established by the westward moving American pioneer. Spatial differences were many, particularly in the areas of agriculture, settlement, transportation, space economy and land tenure.
Links To Reports And Documents Relating To Land Grants And Public Domain
Links To Reports And Documents Relating To Land Grants And Public Domain
Overview of California Private Land Claims and the Public Domain
Links to documents found in the Hornbeck Collection - Historical Land Use in California relating to land grants and the public domain.
1850 – Report On The Subject Of Land Titles In California Made In Pursuance Of Instructions From The Secretary Of State And The Secretary Of Interior, By William Carey Jones: Together With A Translation Of The Principal Laws On That Subject, And Some Other Papers Relating Thereto
Miscellaneous Documents and Reports
An 1850 report prepared by William Carey Jones at the request of the Secretaries of State and Interior. In the first half of the report, Jones described the method by which land titles were created from the first inception to the perfect title as practiced by Mexico within the Province of California, as well as the history of the issuance of land grants subsequent to the independence of Mexico from Spain and the process by which that was accomplished. Jones provides a list of records and memoranda of grants found in the government archives of Monterey. The report addressed the …
1967 - California Ranchos And Farms; 1846-1862, Including The Letters: Of John Quincy Adams Warren Of 1861, Being Largely Devoted To Livestock, Wheat Farming, Fruit Raising And The Wine Industry, Paul W. Gates.
Miscellaneous Documents and Reports
Published in 1967, the book, containing letters of John Quincy Adams Warren, was edited by Paul W. Gates who describes the importance of early agriculture in California. Gates writes about the complications created by the Mexican land grants and the beginning development of irrigation. He examines the early American period of California husbandry and beginnings of commercial farming. Gates provides detailed information concerning California ranchos and farms, summarizing livestock, grain, fruit and wine industries during the 1850s. The 1861 John Quincy Adams Warren letters included in the book were written by Warren throughout his travels in Southern California, the Bay …
California Legislature Act Of March 31, 1891, Stats 1891, Chap. 157, P. 221
California Legislature Act Of March 31, 1891, Stats 1891, Chap. 157, P. 221
Swamp and Overflow Lands Statutes
California act allowing the United States Surveyor-General to return lands within the State as swamp and overflowed lands after lands are shown on approved township plats and patents have been or may be issued by the State; so long as it did not affect any homestead or preemption settler claim or any pending suit in any Court.
California Legislature Amending Act Of 1859, Stats 1859, Chap. 314, P. 340
California Legislature Amending Act Of 1859, Stats 1859, Chap. 314, P. 340
Swamp and Overflow Lands Statutes
California Statute pertaining to the procedure for purchase of swamp and overflow lands, acreage limitation and exclusion.
California Legislature Amending And Conferring Act, May 13, 1861, Stats 1961, Chap. 352, P. 355california Statute Regarding Purchase Of Swamp And Overflow Land
Swamp and Overflow Lands Statutes
California Statute pertaining to the procedure for purchase of swamp and overflow lands from Commission for reclamation and appointment of engineer.
California Legislature Revising Act, March 28, 1868, Stats 1867-68, Chap. 415, P. 507
California Legislature Revising Act, March 28, 1868, Stats 1867-68, Chap. 415, P. 507
Swamp and Overflow Lands Statutes
California Statute pertaining to the procedure for purchase of swamp and overflow lands, marsh lands, tide lands, acreage limitation and exclusion.
California Legislature Act Of April 28, 1855, Stats 1855, Chap. 151, P. 189
California Legislature Act Of April 28, 1855, Stats 1855, Chap. 151, P. 189
Swamp and Overflow Lands Statutes
California Statute pertaining to the procedure for purchase of swamp and overflow lands, acreage limitation and exclusion.
California Legislature Act Of April 27, 1863, General Scheme For Sale Of All State Lands, Stats 1863, Chap. 397, P. 591
Swamp and Overflow Lands Statutes
California Statute pertaining to the procedure for sale of swamp and overflow lands, marsh and tide lands, acreage limitation and exemption.
California Legislature Act Of April 21, 1858, Stats 1858, Chap. 235, P. 198
California Legislature Act Of April 21, 1858, Stats 1858, Chap. 235, P. 198
Swamp and Overflow Lands Statutes
California Statute pertaining to the procedure for purchase of swamp and overflow lands, acreage limitation and exclusion.
California Legislature Act Of May 14, 1861 To Provide For The Sale Of Marsh And Tide Lands, Stats 1861, Chap. 356, P. 363
Swamp and Overflow Lands Statutes
California Statute pertaining to the procedure for sale of all marsh and tide lands in accordance with provision of Acts providing for the sale of swam and overflow lands, acreage limitation and exclusion.
California Legislature April 4, 1870, Act To Amend An Act Entitled An Act To Provide For The Management And Sale Of The Lands Belonging To The State, Approved, March 28, 1868, Stats 1870, Chap. 573
Swamp and Overflow Lands Statutes
California Statute pertaining to the procedure for purchase of swamp and overflow lands, marsh lands, tide lands, acreage limitation and exclusion.
California Legislature Act To Legalize Applications Made For Purchase Of State Lands And To Confirm Title, March 27, 1872, Stats 1872, Chap. 425
Swamp and Overflow Lands Statutes
California Statute pertaining to the procedure for purchase of swamp and overflow lands, marsh lands, tide lands, acreage limitation and exclusion.
California Legislature Act Of March 25, 1909 Amending Political Code Of State Of California Adding Section 3443a Relating To Tide Lands
Swamp and Overflow Lands Statutes
California Statute amending the California Political Code, adding a new section 3443a, relating to tide lands of the state and the sale and purchase thereof.