 | John Arnold Rockwell - Land titles - 1851 - 700 pages
...witness or witnesses before the said board or any commissioner. Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That each and every person claiming lands in California...support of such claims ; and it shall be the duty of the commissioners, when the case is ready for hearing, to proceed promptly to examine the same upon... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1852 - 642 pages
...1851, declares as follows : " That each and every person claiming lands in California by virtue ot any right or title derived from the Spanish or Mexican...support of such claims : and it shall be the duty of the commissioners, when the case is ready for hearing, to proceed promptly to examine the same upon... | |
 | History, Modern - 1853 - 612 pages
...in California, at such times and places as the President might designate, before whom "all persona claiming lands in California by virtue of any right or title derived from the Spanish or Mexican governments," prior to the 7th day of July, 1846, should present them for examination. It provided... | |
 | George Ticknor Curtis - Constitutional law - 1854 - 674 pages
...former government of the country. The language of the eighth section embraces the claim or title of " each and every person claiming lands in California...title derived from the Spanish or Mexican government ;" and the thirteenth section declares that the lands, the claims to which shall have been finally... | |
 | 1860 - 782 pages
...witness or witnesses before the said board or any commissioner. SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That each and every person claiming lands in California...support of such claims ; and it shall be the duty of the commissioners, when the case is ready for hearing, to proceed promptly to examine the same upon... | |
 | William Wharton Lester - Land tenure - 1860 - 786 pages
...witness or witnesses before the said board or any commissioner. SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That each and every person claiming lands in California...support of such claims ; and it shall be the duty of the commissioners, when the case is ready for hearing, to proceed promptly to examine the same upon... | |
 | James De Fremery - Mortgages - 1860 - 118 pages
...considerable property in the city of San Francisco. § 29. In order to determine and define all rights claimed by virtue of any right or title derived from the Spanish or Mexican governments, Congress passed, March 3d, 1851, a an act to ascertain and settle the private land claims... | |
 | Andrés Castillero - Mining claims - 1861 - 1066 pages
...ascertaining the "private land claims" in the State of California. The eighth section of the Act requires that each and every person claiming lands in California by virtue of any right or title derived from, etc. The subject to be adjudicated then is a " claim to land." The nature of such claim, the estate... | |
 | Almanacs, American - 1851 - 372 pages
...attendance of witnesses before the board or any commissioner. Persons claiming lands in California, by any right or title derived from the Spanish or Mexican Government, shall present the same to the commissioners when sitting as a board, together with such documentary evidence and testimony of witnesses... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1862 - 682 pages
...or Spanish title, "shall present the same to the commissioners, when sitting as a board, with snch documentary evidence and testimony of witnesses as...said claimant relies upon in support of such claims." It is true, in practice a petition was usually, and perhaps always, presented, but the biw did not... | |
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That each and every person claiming lands in California by virtue of any right or title derived from the Spanish or Mexican Government... 
