On formation of a new district with an Alcalde: petition to form a new dist. not to extend within 12 miles of Sonoma, with the natural boundary Napa river; describe Benicia, say settlement & business rapidly increasing, need of an alcalde; dist. to embrace: beginning at the embarcation at head of tide water on the Napa river, down to its mouth, thence up the Straits of Carquinez & the Suisun bay to mouth of the Sacramento, thence up to the head of the present dist. of Sonoma, up the Sacramento to head of the mountain, & to place of beginning incl. rancho of Captain Emery on the Napa river
| Date | 1847-12-31 (exact) |
|---|---|
| From | E.H. Von Pfister, Stephen Cooper & 26 others |
| To | Gov. |
| Place | Benicia City |
| Series | Miscellaneous / Unbound Documents |
| Tomo | Unbound |
| Original tomo page | — |
| Savage copy page | 127 |
| Scan leaf | n127–128 |
| Document type | abstract |
| Source | Savage abstract |
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E.H. Von Pfister, Stephen Cooper & 26 others to Gov., Benicia City, 1847-12-31, 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-d228.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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