California: Its Gold and Its Inhabitants, Volumer 1-2T.C. Newby, 1856 |
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Side 278 - An applicant must be 21 years of age or over, or if under the age of 21 years the head of a family, and a citizen of the United States or have declared intentions of becoming a citizen.
Side 279 - That any person applying to enter land under the preceding section shall first make and subscribe before the proper officer and file in the proper land office an affidavit that he or she is the head of a family or is over twenty-one years of age, and that such application is honestly and in good faith made for the purpose of actual settlement and cultivation, and not for the benefit of any other person, persons, or corporation, and that he or she will faithfully and honestly endeavor to comply with...
Side 280 - That no lands acquired under the provisions of this Act shall in any event become liable to the satisfaction of any debt or debts contracted prior to the issuing of the patent therefor.
Side 238 - The same phenomenon troubles also an English visitor. The hotels of Sacramento, Marysville, and like places, he notes in his journal, "are bad schools for children ; some now running wild, not more than six or seven years of age, are already very conversant with the cigar, and with the oaths so frequently used by the American in common parlance. . . . Two of these children came into the 'gentlemen's parlour...
Side 252 - That the capitalists, shipowners, merchants, and others, who are encouraging or engaged in the importation of these burlesques on humanity, would crowd their ships with the longtailed, horned, and...
Side 280 - That if any individual now a resident of any one of the States or Territories, and not a citizen of the United States, but at the time of making such application for the benefit of this act, shall have filed a declaration of intention as required by the naturalization laws of the United States, and shall become a citizen of the same before the issuance of the patent, as made and provided for in this act...
Side 279 - ... claim, or which may, at the time the application is made, be subject to pre-emption at one dollar and twentyfive cents, or less, per acre; or eighty acres or less of such unappropriated lands at two dollars and fifty cents per acre, to be located in a body, in conformity to the legal subdivisions of the public lands, and after the same shall have been surveyed...
Side 107 - ... arrested on Monday last, in Santa Clara Mission, for the murder of another Indian or Mexican. Particulars not known. The murderer was committed for the Court of Sessions." " Murder. — On Sunday morning last, a Mexican boy was whipped at Vallecito, by Dr. Wilson, for maltreating some American children. Nothing more was thought of the matter until the next day, when the body of Captain McAlpin was found, stabbed in several places, lying in the Spanish part of the town. One of the wounds penetrated...
Side 163 - After an exchange of three ineffectual shots, between the Hon. William M. Gwin and Hon. JW McCorkle, the friends of the respective parties having discovered that their principals were fighting under a misapprehension of facts, mutually explained to their respective principals in what the misapprehension consisted ; whereupon Dr.
Side 252 - Be it resolved: That it is the duty of the miners to take the matter into their own hands ... to erect such barriers as shall be sufficient to check this Asiatic inundation. . . . That the Capitalists, ship-owners...