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Gentlemen, aceept this gift, and in all your actions, in all the assaults which may be made upon you by those who hate or those who fear or those who doubt, remember the motto which it bears, "do right and fear not,"' for in the end blessings will ever reward you for your laborious vigilance for the protection of our lives and property. (San Francisco Herald, August 12, 1851. See supra, p. 372.)
EXTRACT FROM A REPORT OF THE GRAND JURY OF TUOLUMNE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, OCTOBER 9, 1855
The Grand Jury would further report that there exists in their belief at the present time, or have recently existed in several of the camps of this county organized bodies of men who style themselves Vigilance Committees, or Committees of Public Safety. These committees were organized at first no doubt from a laudable desire to assist in the suppression of crime, which at a time not long since seemed to be committed almost with impunity in our midst. They were in the first instance, we believe, organized by many of the best citizens of the county-men who were actuated by no other motive than the detection of villainy and the punishment of crime. Many, if not all, of these citizens only designed to co-operate with the officers of the law, that the law might be more effectually executed and made more efficient in the preservation of life and the protection of property. But we regret the necessity we are under to state that irresponsible parties, men who under ordinary circumstances would not be considered safe repositories of power have crept in and under cover of these committees assumed the power of making arrests, and from what light we have before us have com- mitted acts which should not be longer tolerated in our midst.
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In view of these facts the Grand Jury most earnestly recommend and urge that all good citizens throughout the county who were members of these committees or who countenanced their existence, will use all their influence in disbanding these organizations and thereby put a stop to all extra-judicial proceedings as have recently taken place. Justice and humanity demand that this course should be immediately adopted. (Archives of the County Clerk, Grand Jury Reports. See supra, p. 395.)
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE OF VIGILANCE OF 1856
(Members of the Committee of 1851 are marked with a *) President, W. T. Coleman *.
Vice-Presidents, C. J. Dempster, S. T. Thompson*, J. D. Farwell*, W. H. Tillinghast*, Lorenzo Hubbard, J. M. Taylor*, T. J. L. Smiley*, A. W. Bell, D. S. Turner *.
Secretary, Isaac Bluxome, Jr .*; Assistant Secretary, Charles Ludlow. Treasurer, James Dows *; Assistant Treasurer, William Meyer *.
Grand Marshal, Charles Doane.
Sergeant-at-arms, Jerome Rice.
Chief of Police, Oscar Smith *; afterward, J. F. Curtis *.
Director of Police, A. M. Burns; afterward, W. C. B. Andrews.
Surgeon in Chief, Dr. R. B. Cole.
Executive Committee: W. T. Coleman*, T. J. L. Smiley*, James Dows*, J. P. Manrow*, S. T. Thompson*, W. T. Thompson*, R. B. Cole, J. S. Emery, N. O. Arrington, L. Bossange, Charles Doane, J. K. Osgood, R. M. Jessup*, J. H. Fish, M. J. Burke, C. L. Case*, F. W. Page, [C.] E. Grisar*, C. J. Dempster, J. D. Farwell*, O. B. Crary, W. H. Tillinghast*, William Arrington, E. P. Flint, W. T. Reynolds*, Eugene Delessert*, N. P. Hutch- ings, J. W. Brittan, W. H. Rogers, M. F. Truett, C. V. Gillespie*, Isaac Bluxome, Jr .* , H. S. Brown*, E. B. Goddard, E. Gorham*, G. R. Ward*, A. M. Burns. (Popular Tribunals, II, 113. Colville's San Francisco Direc- tory for 1856 printed a list of officers, but the publisher tried to obliterate it by pasting a printed slip above the paragraphs.)
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CLASSIFIED LIST OF MATERIAL
This list includes the works which have been cited in the footnotes of this volume, with the addition of a few supplementary authorities of recognized importance. It contains, however, but a portion of the ex- tensive literature relating to California, 1846 to 1860, and every student of the period must constantly refer to the excellent Bibliography compiled by Mr. Robert E. Cowan. The fullness of entry presented there is im- possible here, but important bibliographical details have been noted as the author has thought necessary. Titles omitted by Cowan are given here with particular fullness, rare books are described more carefully than familiar authorities, and abbreviated titles are indicated by the conven- tional symbols. The number of pages is noted when a publication con- tains less than one hundred; also in the description of manuscripts and of some rare books.
For Californiana not included in the Bancroft Library reference is made to the following collections :
California State Library, Sacramento.
Henry E. Huntington Library, San Gabriel, California.
M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. Collection of Mr. Robert E. Cowan, San Francisco.
Collection of Mr. Charles B. Turrill, San Francisco.
Collection of Mr. Henry R. Wagner, Berkeley, California.
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SCHEME OF CLASSIFICATION
PUBLIC DOCUMENTS
Congressional Documents
Miscellaneous Federal Documents
CALIFORNIANA
Bibliographies
Newspapers
Series and Periodicals
State Documents
Local Official Documents
Local Histories and Directories
Contemporary Works, Published or Written 1844-1860
General Histories, Biographies, and Reminiscences, 1861 to date Manuscript Reminiscences in the Bancroft Library Printed Works
The San Francisco Committees of Vigilance, 1851 and 1856 Archives of the Committee of 1851 Archives of the Committee of 1856 Manuscript Statements of Members in the Bancroft Library Printed Accounts of the Committees
Committees of Vigilance elsewhere than in San Francisco
MISCELLANEOUS WORKS
General Authorities Series, Periodicals and Newspapers
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PUBLIC DOCUMENTS
CONGRESSIONAL DOCUMENTS
The Congressional reports relative to the occupation and military government of California appear in bewildering duplication. A useful analysis is made in the Index to Publications . . . . Relating to Mexico, published by the War Department Library. Bancroft's footnotes, as cited supra, chapters one and two, generally cover exact reference to the official records. The subjects of the documents listed below are indicated in parentheses.
Serial number
493 29 Cong., 2 Sess., Sen. Doc. 1. (Reports of Sloat and Stockton. With President's Message of December 8, 1846.)
499 29 Cong., 2 Sess., House Doc. 19. (Occupation of Mexican Terri- tory. With Message of December 22, 1846.)
503 30 Cong., 1 Sess., Sen. Ex. Doc. 1. (Kearny's overland march. With Message of December 7, 1847.)
507 30 Cong., 1 Sess., Sen. Ex. Doc. 33. (Court Martial of Frémont, 1847-1848.)
520 30 Cong., 1 Sess., House Ex. Doc. 60, (Mexican War correspond- ence, 1846-1848.)
521 30 Cong., 1 Sess., House Ex. Doc. 70. (New Mexico and California. With Message of July 24, 1848. 49 pp.)
531 30 Cong., 2 Sess., Sen. Ex. Doc. 31. (Reports of Stockton.)
537 30 Cong., 2 Sess., House Ex. Doc. 1. (Reports from California. With Message of December 5, 1848.)
549 31 Cong., 1 Sess., Sen. Ex. Doc. 1 [pt. 1]. (Operations in California. With Message of December 4, 1849.)
557 31 Cong., 1 Sess., Sen. Ex. Doc. 18. (See note on Ser. No. 573.)
558 31 Cong., 1 Sess., Sen. Ex. Doc. 47. (P. T. Tyson, Geology . . . . of California, 1851.)
561 31 Cong., 1 Sess., Sen. Ex. Doc. 52. (Correspondence of General Riley. With Message of May 22, 1850.)
573 31 Cong., 1 Sess., House Ex. Doc. 17, 1850. (California and New Mexico. With Message of January 21, 1850. Cited in this volume in preference to Ser. No. 557, which contains practically the same material with some additions and omissions.)
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Serial number
577 31 Cong., 1 Sess., House Ex. Doe. 59. (T. B. King, Report on Cali- fornia, 1850. 32 pp.)
589 31 Cong., 2 Sess., Sen. Ex. Doc. 18. (W. C. Jones, Land Titles in California, 1851.)
688 33 Cong., Special Sess., Sen. Doc. 4. (Indian agents in California. With Report of the Secretary of the Interior, March 17, 1853.)
824 34 Cong., 1 Sess., Sen. Ex. Doc. 101. (Committee of Vigilance of 1856. With Message of August 6, 1856. 30 pp.)
835 34 Cong., 2 Sess., Sen. Mise. Doc. 1. (C of V., 1856. Printed with 34 Cong., 1 Sess., Sen. Misc. Doc. 82. 1 p.)
881 34 Cong., 3 Sess., Sen. Ex. Doc. 43. (C. of V., 1856. Report of the Secretary of War. 29 pp.)
1240 39 Cong., 1 Sess., Sen. Rep't. 105. (Occupation of mineral lands. 3 pp.)
1289 39 Cong., 2 Sess., House Ex. Doc. 29. (J. R. Browne, Report on mineral resources.)
1293 39 Cong., 2 Sess., House Ex. Doc. 92. (J. W. Taylor, Gold Mines east of the Rocky Mountains.)
1484-1496 42 Cong., 2 Sess., Sen. Rep't. 41, pts. 1-13. (Ku Klux Klan.)
1975 46 Cong., 3 Sess., House Ex. Doc. 47, pt. 4. (Thomas Donaldson, The Public Domain, 1881).
2144 47 Cong., 2 Sess., House Mise. Doe. 42, pt. 14. (10th Census- Mining laws).
5879 61 Cong., 3 Sess., Sen. Doc. 758. (Immigration Commission, Reports, vol. 39.)
6589 63 Cong., 2 Sess., Senate Doc. 608. (J. T. Hughes, Doniphan's Expedition; reprint of the edition copyrighted in 1847.) Congressional Globe, 29-30 Cong. (1846-1849).
MISCELLANEOUS FEDERAL DOCUMENTS
United States. Statutes at Large. Boston and Washington, 1850.
United States. Presidents. A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, 1789-1897. By James D. Richardson. Washington, 1899. 10 vols. (Also published as Cong. Docs., Ser. No. 3265, pts. 1-10, 1896-1899.) Cited as Richardson, Messages.
United States. War Department. Reports on the Law of Civil Government in Territory Subject to Military Occupation by the Military Forces of the United States . ... By Charles E. Magoon. Ed. 2. Washing- ton, 1902. Cited as Magoon, Reports.
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CALIFORNIANA
California material found in works of general history is listed under Californiana.
BIBLIOGRAPHIES
Bancroft, Hubert Howe. "Authorities quoted in the History of Cali- fornia," in his History of California, I, XXV-LXXXVIII.
The separate volumes of Bancroft's histories also contain valuable bibliographical guides. Citations in these pages are made from the full set of Works, which in some instances differ in date from the independent publications although the paging is identical. For a discussion of the authorship of the various volumes, see an article by William Alfred Morris, in the Oregon Historical Society, Quar- terly, IV, 287-364 (December, 1903).
Bepler, Doris West. Descriptive Catalogue of Western Historical Material in California Periodicals, 1854-1890. . . .. 1920. 299 pp. MS Thesis (M.A.), University of California Library.
California State Library. Card Index to California Newspapers. An invaluable guide to local history.
Chapman, Charles E. "The Literature of California History," South- western Historical Quarterly, XXII, 318-352 (April, 1919).
Cowan, Robert Ernest. Bibliography of the History of California and the Pacific West, 1510-1906 . .. . San Francisco, 1914.
Full titles and descriptive notes of about 1000 books. An indispen- sable tool for the studeut of California history.
Dietz, Ambrose P. "List of Books, Tracts, Pamphlets, and other Publi- cations .... relating to California and .... to the adjoining States and Territories. From the earliest Period of Discovery to the Present Time .. .. " in his Bibliotheca Californiae. A De- scriptive Catalogue of Books in the State Library of California (2 vols. Sacramento, 1871), II, 687-789.
The first bibliography of California that appeared in book form.
Garoutte, Eudora. Study Outline of California History. Sacramento, 1920. 15 pp. (California State Library.)
Haferkorn, Henry E., compiler. The War with Mexico, 1846-1848 ; A Select Bibliography . . . . Washington Barracks, 1914. (Supple- meut no. 1, Professional Memoirs, VI, no. 26. Bibliographical Con- tributions, Bulletin no. 1.)
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Hunt, Rockwell D[ennis]. Pacific Slope History with Special Reference to California. Los Angeles, 1918. 25+30 pp. MS syllabus of lec- tures, University of Southern California. In 2 pts.
Keith, Eliza D. "California Books from the Library of Capt. Isaiah W. Lees," in her Report of Historical Landmarks Committee of the Native Daughters [of the] Golden West [San Francisco, 1902], 39-68. Macdonald, Augustin S. List of Books, Californiana and the Pacific, in the Library of Augustin S. Macdonald. Oakland, 1903. 76 pp.
This valuable collection has been bought for the Huntington Library.
Taylor, Alexander S[mith]. Bibliografa Californica, 1510-1863. Printed in the Sacramento Union, June 25, 1863, March 13, 1866. Scrap- book, with preface by Henry K. Goddard, in the Bancroft Library. Turner, Frederick Jackson. List of References on the History of the West. Revised ed. Cambridge, 1913.
United States. War Department Library. Index of Publications, Articles, and Maps Relating to Mexico, in the War Department Library.
Washington, 1896. (Catalogue no. 3.)
NEWSPAPERS
Inelusive dates of publication are given as exactly as possible. These have most kindly been supplied by Mr. R. S. Kuykendall, of the Univer- sity of California, who is preparing a volume entitled The Early History of the Newspaper Press in California. Valuable material may also be found in a "History of California Newspapers," by E. C. Kemble, Sac- ramento Union, December 25, 1858, pp. 2-3, 6-8.
Democratic State Journal. February 5, 1852-June 24, 1858.
Grass Talley Union. October 28, 1864-date.
Marysville Herald. August 6, 1850-January 1, 1858.
Monterey Californian. Established August 15, 1846. After May 22, 1847, published in San Francisco. Continued as California Star and Cali- fornian, November 18-December 23, 1848. See supra, p. 94 note 17. Oakland Transcript. April 1, 1868-January 3, 1878.
Oakland Tribune. February 21, 1874-date.
Placer Times. Established in Sacramento April 28, 1849. Continued as Daily Placer Times and Transcript after June 16, 1851. Removed to San Francisco and published there until December 15, 1855.
Sacramento Bee. February 3, 1857-date.
Sacramento Transcript. Established April 1, 1850. Continued as Daily Placer Times and Transcript, June 16, 1851-December 15, 1855.
Sacramento Union. Established March 19, 1851. Continued as Sacramento Record Union, after September 1, 1875.
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San Francisco .* Colifornia Star. Established January 9, 1847. Continued as California Star and Californian, November 18-December 23, 1848. See supra, p. 37 note 40.
Alta California. January 4, 1849-1891. See supra, p. 94 note 17.
Pacific News. August 25, 1849-May (?), 1851.
Daily Herald. June 1, 1850-(?). 1863. See supra, p. 410 note 3.
California Daily Courier. July 1, 1850-January 5, 1852.
Evening Picayune. August 3, 1830-April (?), 1852.
Morning Post. May 24-November 15, 1851.
Pacific Star. June 25-September (?), 1851.
Sunday Dispatch. July 13, 1851-(?).
The Pacific. August 1, 1851-date.
Evening Bulletin. October 8, 1855-date.
Call. December 1, 1856-date.
Chronicle. January 16, 1865-date.
Examiner. June, 1865-date. Argonaut. March 25, 1877-date.
San José Pioneer. January 13, 1877-December 29, 1883.
Sonora Herald. July 4, 1850-(?), 1859.
Sonora Union Democrat. July 1, 1854-date.
Stockton Journal. June (?), 1850-June (?), 1854.
Sydney (N. S. W.) Morning Herald. Issues from July to December, 1851, checked by correspondence.
SERIES AND PERIODICALS
Academy of Pacific Coast History. Publications. Berkeley, 1910-date. Associated Pioneers of the Territorial Days of California. Reports. New York and San Francisco, 1875 -.
California Historical Society. Papers. San Francisco, 1887-1893.
Historical Society of Southern California. Publications. Los Angeles, 1884-date.
Grizzly Bear. Los Angeles (cte.), 1907-date.
Hutchings' Illustrated California Magazine. 1856-1861.
Overland Monthly. San Francisco, 1868-date.
Pioneer Monthly. San Francisco, 1854-1855.
Society of California Pioneers. Reports. San Francisco, 1850 -.
Society of California Pioneers. Constitution and By-Laws . . . . as Revised December, 1912 . . . List of Members since Its Organization. Sau Francisco, 1912.
University of California. Chronicle. Berkeley, 1898-date.
The Wide West. San Francisco, March 17, 1854-July, 1858.
* Arranged by dates.
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CALIFORNIA STATE DOCUMENTS
California Archives. Archives of California, "Unbound Documents, 1846- 1850." MS transcript in the Bancroft Library. 413 pp.
California. Laws of 1837, see Halleck, J. [i.e. H. W.], Translation and Digest, infra, p. 488. Another translation in Minutes . ... of the Legislative Assembly of . . . San Francisco . . . . 1849, pp. 249- 296.
California. Constitutional Convention, 1849. Report of the Debates in the Convention of California, on the Formation of the State Constitution, in September and October, 1849. By J. Ross Browne. Washington, 1850. Cited as Browne, Debates.
California. Statutes, 1849-1850; 1851; 1852; 1856; 1865-1866.
California. General Laws, see Hittell, T. H., compiler, infra, p. 495.
California. Historical Survey Commission. Guide to the County Archives of California. By Owen C. Coy. Sacramento, 1919. Cited as Coy, Guide.
California. Penal Code, 1872.
California Blue Book or State Roster, 1907. Sacramento, no date.
California Legislature. Journals, 1849-1850; 1851; 1853.
California Supreme Court. Reports. First, 1850-1851; annotated ed. of 1906 cited. (Ed. 2, 1872, lacks the Appendix.) Second, 1852; ed. of 1854 cited. Third, 1852-1853; ed. of 1868 cited. Fifth, 1855; ed. of 1870 cited. Fifteenth, 1860; ed. of 1861 eited.
LOCAL OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS
COLUSA COUNTY. Minutes of the Court of Sessions for October, 1851. (See Coy, Guide, 132.)
MARYSVILLE. Archives of the County Clerk. Register of Suits before the First Alcalde of Marysville, Stephen J. Field, January to May, 1850. (See Coy, Guide, 609.)
PLACERVILLE. Archives of the County Clerk. Alcalde's Docket, 1849-1850. (See Coy, Guide, 158.)
SAN FRANCISCO .* Archives of the Recorder. General Index. Blotter B. The Laws of the Town of San Francisco. San Francisco, 1847. 8 pp.
The date of an ordinance on the last page shows that the pamphlet was published after October 28, 1847. The copy in the Hunt- ington Library is probably unique. (See Cowan, Bibliography, 200.)
* Arranged by dates.
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Minutes of the Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly of the District of San Francisco. From March 12th, 1849, to June 4th, 1849, and a Record of the Proceedings of the Ayuntamiento or Town Council . . . . From August 6th, 1849, until May 3d, 1850. With an Appendix Con- taining Official Communications . . . . with Extracts from Mexican Constitutions and Laws . . . . Published by order of the Board of Supervisors. San Francisco, 1860.
Reports of the Alcalde, Comptroller and Treasurer of San Francisco. San Francisco, 1850. 36 pp.
Very rare (see Cowan, Bibliography, 203). California State Library. Proceedings of the Town Council of San Francisco, Upper California. San Francisco, 1849-1850.
Very rare (see Cowan, Bibliography, 202). California State Library. Manual of the Corporation of . . . . San Francisco, Containing a Map . . . . the Charters . . . the Revised Ordinances; the General Repealing Ordinances; the Ordinances Still in Force, and Certain Laws Relating Particularly to . . . . San Francisco. San Fran- cisco, G. K. Fitch, 1852. 261 pp.
Excellent maps. Valuable compilation of ordinances, 1850-1852. San Francisco Municipal Reports. 1862-63. San Francisco, 1863. San Francisco officials, 1834-1863, pp. 284-297.
SAN JOSÉ. Archives of the City Clerk.
TUOLUMNE COUNTY. Archives of the County Clerk. Grand Jury Reports, 1855-1871. (See Coy, Guide, 576.)
LOCAL HISTORIES AND DIRECTORIES
COLUSA COUNTY. Colusa County. San Francisco. Elliott & Moore, 1880.
Rogers, Justns H. Colusa County. .
. Orland, Cal., 1891.
. CONTRA COSTA COUNTY. Illustrations of Contra Costa County. . Oak- land, Smith & Elliott, [1878].
EL DORADO COUNTY. Historical Souvenir of El Dorado County. . . Oak- land, Paolo Sioli, 1883.
Jerrett, Herman Daniel. California's El Dorado Yesterday and Today. Sacramento, 1915.
FRESNO COUNTY. History of Fresno County. . San Francisco, Wallace W. Elliott & Co., 1882.
LOS ANGELES COUNTY. History of Los Angeles County . . . . [by John Albert Wilson]. Oakland, Thompson & West, 1880.
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MARYSVILLE. Amy, George Sturtevant, and Amy, O., compilers. G. and O. Amy's Marysville Directory for the Year Commencing November 1, 1856. .... Together with an Historical Sketch. .... San Fran- cisco, 1856.
NEVADA COUNTY. Brown and Dallison's Nevada, Grass Valley and Rough and Ready Directory, for the Year Commencing January 1st, 1856. . ... With an Historical Sketch of Nevada County, by A. A. Sargent. . . . San Francisco, 1856.
California State Library.
Thompson, Hugh B. Directory of the City of Nevada and Grass Valley. [San Francisco], 1861.
Bean, Edwin F., compiler. Bean's History and Directory of Nevada County. . ... Nevada [City], 1867.
History of Nevada County . . . . [by Harry Laurenz Wells]. Oakland. Thompson & West, 1880.
PLACER COUNTY. History of Placer County. Oakland, Thompson & West, 1882.
PLUMAS COUNTY. Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen and Sierra Counties. . . . San Francisco, Fariss & Smith, 1882.
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Royce, Josiah. "The Squatter Riot of '50 in Sacramento," Overland Monthly, ser. 2, VI, 225-246 (September, 1885). Reprinted in his Studies of Good and Evil, 1898.
Sacramento Illustrated. .... Sacramento, Barber and Baker, 1855. 36 pp. California State Library.
SAN FRANCISCO. Barry, T[heodore] A[ugustus], and Patten, B[enjamin] A[dam]. Men and Memories of San Francisco in the "Spring of '50." San Francisco, 1873.
Brooks, B. S. "Alcalde Grants in the City of San Francisco," The Pioneer, I, II (1854). Five articles.
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Dwinelle, John W[ hipple]. The Colonial History of the City of San Francisco, Being a Synthetic Argument in the District Court . . . . for Four Square Leagues of Land Claimed by That City. San Fran- eisco, 1863. Citations from ed. 3, San Francisco, 1866, which con- tains an Addenda of many important doenments.
Eldredge, Zoeth Skinner. The Beginnings of San Francisco from . 1774 to . . April 15, 1850. San Francisco, 1912. 2 vols.
Hittell, John S[hertzer]. A History of the City of San Francisco and Incidentally of the State of California. San Francisco, 1878.
Home Guard for the City and County of San Francisco. Roll Book. 1861. 67 pp. Also 62 muster rolls. MSS in the Baneroft Library. Jones, William Carey. The "Pueblo Question" Solved, in a Plain State- ment of Facts and Law. San Francisco, 1860. 36 pp.
King, Edward A. "List of Passenger Arrivals at the Port of San Francisco for the Year 1849 [ March 31-December 30]. Furnished by the Harbor Master, Edward A. King, and Supplemented by Research in the Papers," in Society of California Pioneers, Twenty- fourth Anniversary (San Francisco, 1874), 38-47.
Limantour, José Yves, defendant. The United vs. Jose Y. Limantour. Transcript of Record. [ San Francisco], [1857], 1858. 4 vols. Cover titles: I, U. S. Land Commission; II, U. S. District Court; III, Archive Exhibits; IV, Land Com [mission] Exhibits.
Moses, Bernard. Establishment of Municipal Government in San Fran- cisco. Baltimore, 1889. 83 pp. (Johns Hopkins University, Studies in Historical and Political Science, VII, nos. 2-3.)
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Pendleton, Harry C., publisher. The Exempt Firemen of San Francisco. . Published by Authority of the Exempt Fire Company. San Francisco, 1900. Cover title: History of San Francisco Fire De- partment.
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The chronological annals, compiled from contemporary newspapers, are an invaluable source of information. Cited as Annals.
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