Alta California : embracing notices of the climate, soil, and agricultural products of northern Mexico and the Pacific seaboard : also, a history of the military and naval operations of the United States directed against the territories of northern Mexico, in the year 1846-'47 : with documents declaratory of the policy of the present administration of the national government in regard to the annexation of conquered territory to this union, and the opinion of the Hon. James Buchanan on the Wilmot Proviso, &c
Description of area: p. 9-12; history and documentation: p. 13-64.
Anti-annexation tract.
Summary
The 1847 publication briefly address climate soil and agriculture in Alta and Baja California in chapter I. The following eight chapters consist of communications from the U.S. Government consisting of instructions in the event Mexico declared war, justification of and motives for war, various reports to Washington, communications with Mexican officials in Alta California, accounts of the military operations in California, the articles of capitulation entered into at Rancho of Cowanga on January 13, 1847, all of which are interspersed with personal observations and comments by the author. The final chapter deals with the question of whether slavery would be allowed in California, the policy of the South and its motive for a slave market and emigrants to California and Northern Mexico [from California State University's Digital Commons]
Anno regni Georgii III. Regis, Magnae Britanniae, Franciae & Hiberniae, decimo. : At a General Assembly of the province of Pennsylvania, begun and holden at Philadelphia, the fourteenth day of October, anno Domini 1769 ... And from thence continued by adjournments to the twenty-ninth day of September, 1770
Printed and sold by D. Hall, and W. Sellers, at the new printing-office, near the market.,
Date of Publication
MDCCLXX. [1770]
Physical Description
p. [2], 41-50 ; (fol.)
Notes
Pagination continues session laws published from Feb. 1770 (Evans 11800).
Pennsylvania arms on title page.
Hand-wriiten notes on blank page at end of volume.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 583 as assigned by Yeates.
Evans
Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania,
Contents
Bound with Anno Regni Georgii III Regis...And from thence continued by Adjournments to the Eighteen Day of February 1768, Philadelphia, D. Hall and W. Sellers,1768; - Anno Regni Georgii III Regis...And from thence continued by Adjourments to the Twenty-fourth Day of February 1769, Philadelphia: D. Hall, and W. Sellers, 1769 - Anno Regni Georgii II Regis...And from thence continued by Adjournments to the Twenty-first Day of March, 1772, Philadelphhia, D. Hall and W Sellers, 1772 - Anno Regni Gerogii III Regis...And from thence continured by Adjournments to the Twenty-sixth Day of February 1773, Philadelphia, Hall and Sellers, 1773.
Laws enacted in the third sitting of the third General Assembly, of the Common-wealth of Pennsylvania : which commenced at Philadelphia, on Monday the thirtieth day of August, A.D. one thousand seven hundred and seventy-nine
Pagination continues session laws from Nov. 1776 (Evans 15539).
Signatures: A-B2 C-O.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 584 as assigned by Yeates.
Evans
Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania,
Contents
LCHS copy has bound in a copy of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, as established by the General Convention elected for that purpose. and held at Philadelphjia, July 15th 1776: Philadelphia: printed by John Dunlap, in Market-Street, 1777, and 24 pages of handwritten index.
