Annual Publication of the Historical Society of Southern California, Količine 1–2

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Historical Society of Southern California, 1884
 

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Stran 35 - Resolved, That the Constitution confers upon Congress sovereign power over the territories of the United States for their government, and that in the exercise of this power it is both the right and the duty of Congress to prohibit in the Territories those twin relics of barbarism— polygamy and slavery.
Stran 29 - on the Sierras, and every mountain creek became a river and every river a lake. " Each gorge and gulch was transformed into a tumultuous water-course that descended the hillsides, tearing down giant trees, and scattering its drift and debris along the plain.
Stran 31 - The loss of cattle was fearful. The plains were strewn with their carcasses. In marshy places and around the ciénegas, where there was a vestige of green, the ground was covered with their skeletons, and the traveler for years afterward was often startled by coming suddenly on a veritable
Stran 41 - the first and second books, nearly complete, of his discurso sobre la importancia, forma y disposición de la recopilación de leyes de Indias, and
Stran 6 - and who is a man of experience in his calling, one who can be depended upon and who has means of his own — although he is a Portuguese, there being no Spaniards of his profession whose services are available
Stran 23 - he passed with his vessels through the channel of Santa Barbara, which I suppose he so named ; and when at anchor under one of the islands, was visited by the King of that country, who came with a fleet of boats, and earnestly pressed him to
Stran 10 - DUTIES OF OFFICERS. SECTION 1.—It shall be the duty of the President to preside at all | meetings of the Society ; to enforce a
Stran 28 - had magnetic carriages, on which the moveable arm of the figure of a man continually pointed to the south, as a guide by which to find
Stran 9 - II. The objects of this Society shall be the collection and preservation of all material which can have any bearing upon the history of the Pacific Coast in general and of Southern California in particular
Stran 3 - elected annually by ballot ; they shall hold office until their successors are elected and shall have power to fill vacancies. ARTICLE VI. It shall be the duty of the

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