Petition Gov. to order an election for two members of the Common Council to fill vacancies occasioned by resignation of Glover & death of Leidesdorff; Council now reduced to 4, held no meeting for want of quorum; it would be well members could have authority to preside as Justices of the Peace; also necessary to appoint a harbor master; recommend appt of 3 Port-Wardens to choose Harbor masters & examine such persons as desire to serve as pilots — Collector of Port to be ex-officio member of the Board of Port Wardens
| Date | 1848-09-08 (exact) |
|---|---|
| From | John Townsend, C.V. Gillespie, S. Brannan & 26 other prominent business men |
| To | Gov. |
| Place | San Francisco |
| Series | Miscellaneous / Unbound Documents |
| Tomo | Unbound |
| Original tomo page | — |
| Savage copy page | 158 |
| Scan leaf | n158 |
| Document type | abstract |
| Source | Savage abstract |
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John Townsend, C.V. Gillespie, S. Brannan & 26 other prominent business men to Gov., San Francisco, 1848-09-08, 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-d257.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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