THE LAND-TITLE BOMBSHELL — ✓ VERIFIED vs scan n8 (2026-07-06); ✎✎ SCAN CORRECTED n6→n8 (the old n6 holds Chico's May-1836 election letters, not this doc — the link had pointed to the wrong leaf; the volume is bound out of tomo-page order): since LA's founding, land/solar grants were made 'primero por comisionados, y después por los Ayuntamientos verbalmente, y sin otra formalidad que señalar á los agraciados el sitio y estensión que habían de ocupar'; ✎ 'la Instrucción de José Francisco Ortega de 1782' (the row's '1782 Instruction' — now attributed on the MS to Ortega, cf. C-A 3 Doc 468) required the Gobⁿᵒ to issue *despachos*; 'y que no hay un propietario que pueda exhibir un título legal de sus bienes' (✓ verbatim)
| Date | 1836-04-22 (exact) |
|---|---|
| From | Requena (LA Juez 1°) |
| To | Gefe Político |
| Series | Legislative Records |
| Tomo | III–IV (volume range; this entry is not resolved to one tomo) |
| Original tomo page | p.25–27 |
| Savage copy page | — |
| Scan leaf | n8 |
| Document type | abstract |
| Source | Savage abstract |
Read this leaf on the Internet Archive ↗ · leaf n8
Requena (LA Juez 1°) to Gefe Político, 1836-04-22, Legislative Records, III–IV, p.25–27, Archives of California, C-A 61, 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 III–IV]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/ca61/ca61-d10.html