In The Matter Of Rancho Las Cruces, Santa Barbara County, California: Petition To Congress By Claimants, Asking The Passage Of An Act Authorizing Them (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781020142000)

This legal document, compiled by Mullan and Hyde of San Francisco and Thomas Bloodgood Dibblee, presents a petition to Congress on behalf of the claimants of Rancho Las Cruces, a large land grant in Santa Barbara County, California. Through a detailed history of the land grant and the legal disputes around it, this document illuminates the complex issues of land ownership and property rights in California in the 19th century.

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