(2 docs) 'placer de oro' — the Government, surprised not to have been notified of the DISCOVERY OF A GOLD PLACER in the [LA/2nd] District [= Placerita Canyon, Mar 1842, the first documented California gold], orders a detailed report on the mineral ground & the miners' arrangements with the placer-owner for the statistics to Mexico; + district judges to give legal possession on govt land titles (see Expanded Entry 9)
| Date | 1842-05-14 (exact) |
|---|---|
| From | Jimeno |
| To | Prefecto del 2º distrito |
| Place | Monterey |
| Series | Departmental Records |
| Tomo | IX–XIV (volume range; this entry is not resolved to one tomo) |
| Original tomo page | XIII·69–70 |
| Savage copy page | XIII·32 |
| Scan leaf | n377 |
| Document type | transcription |
| Source | Savage abstract |
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Jimeno to Prefecto del 2º distrito, Monterey, 1842-05-14, Departmental Records, IX–XIV, XIII·69–70, Archives of California, C-A 49, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. [the tomo is given as the volume’s full range: this entry has not been resolved to a single tomo within IX–XIV]Cite the document by series, tomo and original tomo page, as the literature does; the C-A number locates it in the repository. To cite this catalogue entry itself, use https://archivesofcalifornia.com/record/ca49/ca49-d1000.htmlThe originals of these records burned in the 1906 San Francisco fire. What survives is Thomas Savage’s 1870s copy, and this page describes that copy.
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