Land Pamphlets

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  California Land Pamphlets, Volume 1

  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.

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  California Land Pamphlets, Volume 2

  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,

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  California Land Pamphlets, Volume 3

  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.

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  California Land Pamphlets, Volume 4

  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.

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  California Land Pamphlets, Volume 5

  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.

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  California Land Pamphlets, Volume 6

  Volume 6 of the California land pamphlets contains a variety documents relating to California, travel to and mining in British America, the Truckee River water supply and distribution of interstate water, corruption around the acquisition of land in California, religious intolerance and a report of the Soldiers' Relief Fund of San Francisco.

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  California Land Pamphlets, Volume 7

  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,

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  California Land Pamphlets, Volume 8

  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.

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  California Land Pamphlets, Volume 9

  Volume 9 of the California Land Pamphlets contains a brochure for the sale of land in San Luis Obispo County, California, and the response of CaliforniaSurveyor-General Hardenbergh to charges brought by the Commissioner of the General Land Office of the United States.

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  Miscellaneous Land Pamphlets - 1868 -The Mariposa Estate: Its Past, Present and Future

  An 1868 extract from a report to the U.S. Congress by J. Ross Brown, U.S. Commissioner concerning the Mariposa Estate (Fremont Grant), the failure of the Mariposa Company and the value and mineral resources of the Mariposa Estate.

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  Miscellaneous Land Pamphlets - 1871 - The Julian Mines

  The 1871 Exception to Survey filed by miners and settlers in San Diego County, California, excepting and objecting to the approval of the survey of the Ranch Cuyamaca made by the U.S. Deputy Surveyor.

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  Miscellaneous Land Pamphlets - Swamp and Overflowed Lands in Colusa County

  Handwritten ledger pertaining to the survey and disposition of swamp and overflowed lands in Colusa County, California