Accepts the office of Judge of the Superior Court, to which people of SF & San José have elected him

Accepts the office of Judge of the Superior Court, to which people of SF & San José have elected him; his family are insufficiently near P.O. to leave them; will meet the other judges at Monterey

Date	1849-09-05[?] (inferred)
From	Peter H. Burnett
To	Gov. Riley
Place	San Francisco
Series	Miscellaneous / Unbound Documents
Tomo	Unbound
Original tomo page	—
Savage copy page	49
Scan leaf	n49
Document type	abstract
Source	Savage abstract

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Peter H. Burnett to Gov. Riley, San Francisco, 1849-09-05[?], Miscellaneous / Unbound Documents, Unbound, —, Archives of California, C-A 63, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

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Correction to this entry.

Previously read date_text: '1849-09-05[?]'; scan: 'n49'. Leaves read: bancarchca_82_05 n49 and n50. SCAN_PIN WRONG: n49 (stamp 48 / ink 48) does not carry Burnett at all — it holds the Sacramento-district election resolutions and then '1849 ......... Benicia. Dist. of Sonoma. / Cha.s P. Wilkins, Prefect of Dist. of Sonoma to Gov. Riley'. The Burnett letter is on the NEXT leaf, n50 (stamp 49 / ink 49); the recorded savage_page '49' is therefore right while the scan pin is one leaf short. DATE WRONG: the heading on n50 reads '+ 1849 Aug.t 9 S.n Fran.co' — August 9, not September 5 (I enlarged the heading to check; the month is unambiguously 'Aug.t' and the day glyph matches the 9 of '1849' in the same line). ORIG_PAGE correctly '—': these unbound papers carry no original-tomo citation. SUMMARY: two clauses are exact ('Accepts the unsought by him office of Judge of the Sup.r Court, to which people of S.n Fran.co & San José have elected him' … 'meet the other Judges at Monterey'), but the middle clause is a misreading: the leaf reads 'Will, as soon as his family are sufficiently recov.d to leave them, meet the other Judges at Monterey' — i.e. as soon as his family have RECOVERED, not 'his family are insufficiently near P.O. to leave them'. OMISSIONS: the other entry on n50 ('1849 Oct. 25 Stockton / Tho.s B. Van Buren, Prosecut.g Attorney - Dist. of S.n Joaq.n to H. W. Halleck, Sec. of State') is covered by ca63 doc 128 (also pinned one leaf short).

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