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• Report on the Subject of Land Titles in California, Made in Pursuance of Instructions from the Secretary of State and the Secretary of the Interior (Washington: Gideon and Co., printers, 1850), by William Carey Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mexican land grants in California : hearings before a subcommittee of the Committee on public lands and surveys, United States Senate Seventy-first Congress, first session, pursuant to S. Res. 291, a resolution to investigate charges of the illegal delivery to private interests of lands ceded to the United States by the government of Mexico. (U.S. Govt. Print Off., 1930), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Lands and Surveys (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of the McGarrahan claim, as written by himself. ([Washington?, 1875), by William McGarrahan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Survey of the rancho Santiago de Santa Ana. Brief of Montgomery Blair for Bolsas claimants. ([n.p., 1881), by Montgomery Blair (page images at HathiTrust)
• James Morrison, vs. S.M. Mezes, and others, in equity. Motion for an injunction. Opinion of His Honor Ogden Hoffman, denying the motion. (Painter & Company, Book and Job Printers, 1861), by United States. Circuit Court (9th Circuit), S. M. Mezes, James Morrison, and Ogden Hoffman (page images at HathiTrust)
• A compilation of Spanish and Mexican law, in relation to mines, and titles to real estate, in force in California, Texas and New Mexico; and in the territories acquired under the Louisiana and Florida treaties, when annexed to the United States. Volume I. Containing a translation of the mining ordinances of New Spain--Gamboas̕ mining ordinances--the laws in relation to mines of gold, silver and quicksilver, contained in the "Novisima recopilacion",and the "Recopilacion de las Indias", and in the decrees of the Cortes of Spain and of Ferdinand VII., also of the laws and decrees of Mexico, on the subject of mines, colonization, and the right of foreigners to hold real estate. Also, extracts from public documents, and from the laws of California, in relation to mines and mineral lands: together with a digest of the common law, on the subject of mines and mining (J. S. Voorhies, 1851), by John A. Rockwell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Escrow and land-title procedure (O. W. Smith, 1948), by Walter Stuart Home (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reports of land cases determined in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California : June term, 1853 to June term, 1858, inclusive (Yosemite Collections, 1975), by Ogden Hoffman (page images at HathiTrust)
• In the matter of the contested survey of the Rancho of Cuyamaca, San Diego County, Cal. : brief of claimants and synopsis of evidence (I. Hartman?, 1874), by Isaac Hartman and H. P Irving (page images at HathiTrust)
• The case of William McGarrahan. Facts shown by the evidence submitted to Congress. (Powell, Ginck & co., prs., 1869), by William McGarrahan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters of William Carey Jones, in review of Attorney General Black's report to the president of the United States, on the subject of land titles in California. (Commercial Steam Book and Job Printing Establishment, 1860), by William Carey Jones and Jeremiah S. Black (page images at HathiTrust)
• Drake's compilation of Spanish grants (Kenny & Alexander, 1861), by Manuel Casarin Jimeno, Eugene B. Drake, William E. P. Hartnell, and United States. General Land Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reports of land cases determined in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California : June term, 1853, to June term, 1858, inclusive (Sumner Whitney, 1862), by United States. District Court (California : Northern District) and Ogden Hoffman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mexican land grants in California : hearings before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Public Lands and Surveys, United States Senate, Seventy-first Congress, first session pursuant to S. Res. 291. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off, 1930), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Lands and Surveys (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speeches of Mr. Gwin, of California, in the Senate of the United States, on private land titles in the state of California. (Gideon & Co., Printers, 1851), by William McKendree Gwin and United States Supreme Court (page images at HathiTrust)
• Forster vs. Pico : a California cause célèbre; a court battle in 1873 for the great rancho Santa Margarita, Pio Pico's escape from California, the recapture of San Diego in 1846, cattle days lived again (Fine Arts Press, 1936), by Terry Elmo Stephenson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The land entitlement process and incentives for sustainable communities : PIER interim report (California Energy Commission, 2010), by Judie Porter, Kristin Shewfelt, Architectural Energy Corporation, and California Energy Commission. Public Interest Energy Research (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mexican titles in the states and territories of the United States (W. A. Woodward & co., printers, 1891), by J. Alexander Forbes and W.A. Woodward & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Remarks of Hon. Mr. Weller, of California, on the Mexican Boundary Commission - the River and harbor bill - the Fugitive slave law, and California land titles. Delivered in the Senate of the United States. (Printed at the Congressional Globe Office, 1852), by John B. Weller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Railroad lands in California and Nevada. (Central Pacific Railroad Company], 1872), by Central Pacific Railroad Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Scenes behind the curtains ([publisher not identified], 1863), by George Fox Kelly (page images at HathiTrust)

• Appellants' opening brief (Inland Press, 1914), by Butte Creek Consolidated Dredging Company, Edward B. Olney, Laura F. Olney, and California. Supreme Court (page images at HathiTrust)
• Addenda to bill of exceptions (Parker & Stone, 1915), by Butte Creek Consolidated Dredging Company, Edward B. Olney, Laura F. Olney, and California. Superior Court (Butte Co.) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Public hearing on the boundary of the Long Beach tide and submerged lands (The Committee, 1964), by California. Legislature. Senate. Fact-Finding Committee on Natural Resources (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Andrew McNamee, respondent, vs. Daniel McCusker et al., appellants. Transcript on appeal. B.S. Brooks, for appellants. A. Craig, for respondent. (Women's Union Print, 1874), by Andrew McNamee and Daniel McCusker (page images at HathiTrust)

• The law and the evidence relating to Mexican land grants in general the alleged Lomas De Santiago grant, Orange County, California, in particular : a concrete example (s.n., 1930), by Clinton Johnson and United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Lands and Surveys (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Sutter claim, the evidence taken in Case 192 before the Board of U.S. Land Commissioners, together with the brief of the United States land agent. (s.n.], 1854), by United States. Commission for Ascertaining and Settling Private Land Claims in California, L. W. Sloat, J. H. McKune, and Calif.) State Journal Office (Sacramento (page images at HathiTrust)

• San Elijo Lagoon boundary study (The Division, 1976), by California. State Lands Division (page images at HathiTrust)

• San Elijo Lagoon boundary study (The Division, 1976), by California. State Lands Division (page images at HathiTrust)

• Will's California titles (Whitton, Towne, 1853), by James Wilson and Towne & Co Whitton (page images at HathiTrust)
• San Francisco municipal reports. (San Francisco, Calif., 1860), by San Francisco (Calif.). Board of Supervisors and San Francisco (Calif.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Titles to land in the city of San Francisco. Supreme Court of California, December, 1859. Wm. Hart, respondent, vs. Burnett et als, appellants. Ejectment. Argument of Edmund Randolph, for appellants. (J. Anthony & Co., Book and Job Printers, 1860), by Charles Allen Summer, Edmund Randolph, Jacob C. Beidemann, and Burnett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Argument for appellant, concerning the ownership of lands by pueblos (s.n.], 1857), by Nathaniel Bennett, John Sullivan, Mary Welch, and O'Meara & Painter (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the title of the San Francisco Homestead Union to a tract of land in the city and county of San Francisco : being a portion of the San Miguel Rancho, distributed to the shareholders February 15th, 1864 (Towne & Bacon, 1864), by James T. Boyd, San Francisco Homestead Union, and Towne & Bacon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Argument of Eug. B. Drake and C.R. Greathouse against the Stratton survey. ([San Francisco, California?] : [publisher not identified], [1877?], 1877), by Eugene B. Drake, Clarence Ridgley Greathouse, United States, San Francisco (Calif.), and United States. General Land Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• Brief against adoption of Wheeler survey ([publisher not identified], 1879), by Eugene B. Drake, Edward J. Welch, Milo Hoadley, James T. Stratton, George Hearst, and United States. General Land Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pueblo lands of San Francisco ([publisher not identified], 1878), by James Alexander Williamson and United States. General Land Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• Brief on behalf of appellant ([publisher not identified], 1879), by Wellington C. Burnett, Eugene B. Drake, United States, San Francisco (Calif.), United States Department of the Interior, and United States. General Land Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• Remarks, in opposition to a change of the survey of the pueblo of San Francisco ([publisher not identified], 1878), by Philip Gleason Galpin and United States. General Land Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memorial of S.M. Tibbits, A.M. Simpson and others, grantees of city and county of San Francisco : for establishment of southern line of Presidio Reservation in accordance with survey of U.S. Surveyor-General, with reaons therefor, & c, &c. (Women's Union Print, 1874), by Theodore Henry Hittell, Stephen M. Tibbits, and 1873-1874) United States. Congress (43rd : 1st session (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memorial to the Congress of the United States : against the confirmation by Congress of the Stratton survey of the pueblo of San Francisco. ([publisher not identified], 1880), by Edward Robeson Taylor, George W. Ellis, F. S. Spring, Clinton C. Tripp, United Land Association, United States Department of the Interior, United States. General Land Office, and Jarboe & Harrison (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ownership : part of a detailed study of San Francisco Bay (s.n.], 1968), by San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (page images at HathiTrust)

• In the matter of Rancho Las Cruces, Santa Barbara County, California. Petition to Congress by claimants, asking the passage of an act authorizing them to present their claim to the U.S. District Court in and for the District of California. (R.O. Polkinhorn, 1876), by Vicente Cordero, Thomas Bloodgood Dibblee, and San Francisco Mullan and Hyde (page images at HathiTrust)

• Transcript of hearing on implied dedication ([Sacramento?, 1972), by California. Legislature. Assembly. Interim Committee on Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Guia del propietario de terrenos, poseedores y denunciantes de baldios, en el territorio de la Baja California (Impr. de J.F. Pujol, 1869), by José Fidel Pujol (page images at HathiTrust)

• HR 1239 and HR 2742 (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2002), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources (page images at HathiTrust)

• Miscellaneous water, title transfer, and hydroelectric project bills : hearing before the Subcommittee on Water and Power of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred Sixth Congress, second session, on S. 1659, S. 1836, S. 2091, H.R. 862, H.R. 992, H.R. 1235, H.R. 3077, March 22, 2000. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2000), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Water and Power (page images at HathiTrust)
• César Estrada Chávez Study Act : report (to accompany S. 164). (U.S. G.P.O., 2003), by United States Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (page images at HathiTrust)
• Railroad Right of Way Conveyance Validation Act of 2003 (U.S. G.P.O., Supt. of Docs., Congressional Sales Office, 2003), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources (page images at HathiTrust)
• Land conveyance, Faraway Ranch, Mendocino National Forest, California : report (to accompany H.R. 708) (including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office). (U.S. G.P.O., 2003), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources (page images at HathiTrust)
• Railroad Right of Way Conveyance Validation Act of 2003 (U.S. G.P.O., 2004), by United States Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (page images at HathiTrust)
• To facilitate the exchange of small tracts of land : report (to accompany H.R. 4617) (including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office). (U.S. G.P.O., 2004), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources (page images at HathiTrust)
• Redwood National Park Boundary Adjustment Act of 2004 : report (to accompany S. 2567). (U.S. G.P.O., 2004), by United States Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (page images at HathiTrust)
• Redwood National Park Boundary Adjustment Act of 2005 : report (to accompany S. 134). (U.S. G.P.O., 2005), by United States Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (page images at HathiTrust)
• To provide for certain lands to be held in trust for the Utu Utu Gwaitu Paiute Tribe : report (to accompany H.R. 854) (including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office). (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2006), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources (page images at HathiTrust)
• Providing for certain lands to be held in trust for the Utu Utu Gwaitu Paiute Tribe : report (to accompany H.R. 854). (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2006), by United States Senate Committee on Indian Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wild's annotation of the Torrens Land Title Law of California : containing full forms for practical use under all sections of the act, also the decisions of the Supreme Courts of the Several States where the law has been in operation... (News Printing Co., 1915), by California and Edward N. Wild (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proposals to transfer federal reclamation projects to local authorities : hearing before the Subcommittee on Water, Power, and Offshore Energy Resources of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred First Congress, first session, on H.R. 1404, Sly Park Unit Sale Act, H.R. 1462 ... Platoro Reservoir ... H.R. 1611, Solano Project ... hearing held in Washington, DC, September 26, 1989. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1990), by Power United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Water (page images at HathiTrust)
• National Forest Redwoods Act of 1991 : hearing before the Subcommittee on National Parks and Public Lands of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, first session, on H.R. 2274 ... hearing held in Washington, DC, June 25, 1991. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1992), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on National Parks and Public Lands (page images at HathiTrust)
• Miscellaneous water, title transfer, and hydroelectric project bills : hearing before the Subcommittee on Water and Power of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred Sixth Congress, second session, on S. 1659, S. 1836, S. 2091, H.R. 862, H.R. 992, H.R. 1235, H.R. 3077, March 22, 2000. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2000), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Water and Power (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tahoe National Forest, California, land conveyance : report (to accompany H.R. 1439). (U.S. G.P.O., 1998), by United States Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rogue River National Forest : report (to accompany H.R. 3796). (U.S. G.P.O., 1998), by United States Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (page images at HathiTrust)
• To provide for the transfer of public lands to certain California Indian tribes : report (to accompany S. 1840). (U.S. G.P.O., 2000), by United States Senate Committee on Indian Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rogue River National Forest : report (to accompany H.R. 3796) (including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office). (U.S. G.P.O., 1998), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources (page images at HathiTrust)
• California Indian Land Transfer Act : report (to accompany H.R. 2742) (including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office). (U.S. G.P.O., 1998), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources (page images at HathiTrust)
• A bill to provide for outlet modifications to Folsom Dam, California, reconstruction of Northfork American River Cofferdam, transfer of Auburn Dam, and for other purposes : report together with dissenting views (to accompany H.R. 4111) (including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office). (U.S. G.P.O., 1998), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources (page images at HathiTrust)
• California Five Mile Regional Learning Center Transfer Act : report (to accompany H.R. 3401) (including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office). (U.S. G.P.O., 2002), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources (page images at HathiTrust)
• Los Padres National Forest Land Exchange Act of 2002 : report (to accompany H.R. 4917) (including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office). (U.S. G.P.O., 2002), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources (page images at HathiTrust)
• HR 3401, HR 3954, and HR 3962 (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2002), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources. Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Act to Authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to Convey the Administrative Site for the Rogue River National Forest and Use the Proceeds for the Construction or Improvement of Offices and Support Buildings for the Rogue River National Forest and the Bureau of Land Management. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1998), by United States (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Act to Clear Title to Certain Lands Along the California-Nevada Boundary. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1986), by United States (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Act to Direct the Secretary of the Interior to Convey to the City of Imperial Beach, California, Approximately 1 Acre of Land in the Tijuana Slough National Wildlife Refuge. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1994), by United States (page images at HathiTrust)

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