Municipal revenue & expenses: amt collected 1st 4 months of the year $173 from duties imposed by a territorial law on stores, taverns, billiard tables & liquors; fines imposed by magistrates for petty offences ~$25/mo, total $868/yr[?]; expenses necessary ~$135/mo (rent of court rooms, salaries of jailor/alguacil/clerk/superintendent of prisoners in pub. works, paper, prison irons, repairs on jail), leaving a deficit of $67/mo which must be covered by some tax on people of district
| Date | 1848-05-17 (exact) |
|---|---|
| From | Abel Stearns (Síndico Procurador of the Ayuntº) |
| To | Alcalde Foster |
| Place | Los Angeles |
| Series | Miscellaneous / Unbound Documents |
| Tomo | Unbound |
| Original tomo page | — |
| Savage copy page | 72 |
| Scan leaf | n71–72 |
| Document type | abstract |
| Source | Savage abstract |
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Abel Stearns (Síndico Procurador of the Ayuntº) to Alcalde Foster, Los Angeles, 1848-05-17, Miscellaneous / Unbound Documents, Unbound, —, Archives of California, C-A 63, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.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/ca63/ca63-d168.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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