West American History, Količina 23 ,6. delBancroft Company, 1902 |
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... cent snow - crowned summits dominated by the majes- tic Shasta . Descending along the west bank of the Sacramento ... cents an acre for 600 acres . HIST . CAL . , VOL . VI . 2 Creek , extends the grant of Vaca and Peña ,
... cent snow - crowned summits dominated by the majes- tic Shasta . Descending along the west bank of the Sacramento ... cents an acre for 600 acres . HIST . CAL . , VOL . VI . 2 Creek , extends the grant of Vaca and Peña ,
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... cent piece would hold ; then he went about his business , stopping a while to ponder on the matter . During the evening he remarked once or twice quietly , somewhat doubtingly , " Boys , I believe I have found a gold mine . " " I reckon ...
... cent piece would hold ; then he went about his business , stopping a while to ponder on the matter . During the evening he remarked once or twice quietly , somewhat doubtingly , " Boys , I believe I have found a gold mine . " " I reckon ...
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... in a few weeks was given up altogether . ' Mrs Wimmer states that Sutter and Marshall claimed thirty per cent of the gold found on their grant ; Brannan for a time secured ton CHAPTER IV . PROXIMATE EFFECT OF THE GOLD DISCOVERY .
... in a few weeks was given up altogether . ' Mrs Wimmer states that Sutter and Marshall claimed thirty per cent of the gold found on their grant ; Brannan for a time secured ton CHAPTER IV . PROXIMATE EFFECT OF THE GOLD DISCOVERY .
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... Three Years in Cal . 13 Jones writes in Nov. 1848 that miners often sold an ounce of gold for a sil- ver dollar . It had been bought of Indians for 50 cents . Revere's Tour of lowering the price , at least in the early part.
... Three Years in Cal . 13 Jones writes in Nov. 1848 that miners often sold an ounce of gold for a sil- ver dollar . It had been bought of Indians for 50 cents . Revere's Tour of lowering the price , at least in the early part.
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... cent could be made on everything . There were no fixed rates . 20 Hayes ' Cal . Mining , i . 50 ; Burnett's Rec . , MS . , 369-70 ; Buffum's Six Months , 52 ; Cal . Star , Dec. 12 , 1848 ; Yuba Co. Hist . , 37 ; Hall's Hist . S. Jo 172 ...
... cent could be made on everything . There were no fixed rates . 20 Hayes ' Cal . Mining , i . 50 ; Burnett's Rec . , MS . , 369-70 ; Buffum's Six Months , 52 ; Cal . Star , Dec. 12 , 1848 ; Yuba Co. Hist . , 37 ; Hall's Hist . S. Jo 172 ...
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Stran 257 - District I" comprises the States of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, and the District of Columbia; (c) "Districts II-IV" means all of the States of the United States except those States within District I and District V; (d) "Districts I-IV...
Stran 343 - Constitution, by an amendment, which will restore to the South, in substance, the power she possessed of protecting herself, before the equilibrium between the sections was destroyed by the action of this Government.
Stran 341 - The migration or importation of such persons as any of the states now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the year 1808, but a tax or duty may be imposed on such importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each person.
Stran 301 - A general diffusion of knowledge and intelligence being essential to the preservation of the rights and liberties of the people, the Legislature shall encourage by all suitable means the promotion of intellectual, scientific, moral, and agricultural improvement.
Stran 130 - from New York to New Orleans twice a month and back, touching at Charleston, if practicable, Savannah, and Habana; and from Habana to Chagres and back twice a month.
Stran 543 - That the commissioners herein provided for, and the District and Supreme Courts, in deciding on the validity of any claim brought before them under the provisions of this act, shall be governed by the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, the law of nations, the laws, usages, and customs of the government from which the claim is derived, the principles of equity, and the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States, so far as they are applicable.
Stran 91 - The entire gold district, with very few exceptions of grants made some years ago by the Mexican authorities, is on land belonging to the United States. It was a matter of serious reflection with me, how I could secure to the government certain rents or fees for the privilege of procuring this gold ; but upon considering the large extent of country, the character of the people engaged, and the small scattered force at my command, I resolved not to interfere, but to permit all to work freely, unless...
Stran 62 - The whole country from San Francisco to Los Angeles," exclaimed the former, " and from the seashore to the base of the Sierra Nevada, resounds to the sordid cry of gold! GOLD! ! GOLD! ! ! while the field is left half planted, the house half built, and everything neglected but the manufacture of shovels and pickaxes, and the means of transportation to the spot where one man obtained...
Stran 277 - The undersigned, in accordance with instructions from the Secretary of War, has assumed the administration of civil affairs in California, not as a military Governor, but as the executive of the existing civil government.
Stran 575 - The archives thus collected," he wrote, furnished irresistible proof that there had been an organized system of fabricating land titles carried on for a long time in California by Mexican officials ; that forgery and perjury had been reduced to a regular occupation; that the making of false grants, with the subornation of false witnesses to prove them, had become a trade and a business.