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Manuscripts
Record volume of the Justice's Court of Pasadena (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
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Manuscripts
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
The docket lists cases involving the Justices of the Peace of Tuolumne County, California, from 1855 to 1857. The docket includes the following information for each case: date, type, proceedings of court, names of individuals involved, actions taken, fees and decisions. There is an alphabetical index at the beginning of the volume.
mssHM 68199
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A collection of historical cases that the Los Angeles Superior Court placed on long-term deposit at the Huntington Library in 1996. Additional material was subsequently transferred to the Huntington in 2002 and interfiled with the main collection. In 2008, the Court made a major addition to the collection by placing on long-term deposit the surviving case files and supporting materials of the Superior Court itself: Civil (1880-June 30, 1910); Probate: Second Series (1880-1892); Probate: Current Series (May 20, 1893-Sep. 25, 1900). The collection includes cases filed in the 1st and 17th District Court of California; Los Angeles County Court, Los Angeles Probate Court, Los Angeles criminal, Los Angeles Justices Court, and Superior and Probate Courts both civil and probate. In 2022, materials related to Los Angeles County Grand Jury activities were added, including reports, minutes, receipts, and accounting information. 1st/17th District Court of California: civil cases case # 1-5431, with gaps Mar. 1851-1879, also plaintiff and defendant indices registers of actions judgment books 1875-1879, judgment dockets 1876 - 1879, minute books (1860-1879), judgment books (1854-1877), and miscellaneous records. To find the case number for cases filed before February 1, 1901, one can use the plaintiff- defendant database available online through the Huntington Digital Library. This database includes only case files that are physically located at the Huntington Library. A significant number of case files have not survived and are not in the database. For the case numbers of later cases, one needs to consult the appropriate index volumes. Once one has the case number, the case can be ordered for review through the Ahmanson Reading Room. The series are open to the general public during regular Huntington business hours on the same basis as when they were kept at the Los Angeles County Archival Center, namely one case file at a time. Scholars approved for manuscript privileges according to normal Huntington screening procedures will have access to the case file. Photocopies are available at rates equal to or less than current comparable rates at the Los Angeles County Archival Center. In some cases, the fragile condition of individual items may necessitate prior conservation work and/or reproduction by photography rather than by photocopying/flat bed scanning. Some of these were removed during the inventory process and placed in a separate "Items Removed" series, itemized in the Appendix to this finding aid. In addition, several series of volumes of indices, registers, judgment books, etc., far from complete but all that survive, are also available to all. Note: Some case files may be incomplete.Note: Materials received in 2014, chiefly consisting of ledgers, are currently not available for paging due to conservation issues.
mssLAACR
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Set of record books kept by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors regarding ordinances, property boundaries, and construction details for various road building projects in Los Angeles County. Includes 6 volumes of "Road Books," with Volume I covering 1873-May 1882, Volume II: May 1882-August 1889, Volume III: August 1889-December 1891, Volume IV: December 1891-May 1895, Volume V: June 1895-February 1900, and Volume VI: February 1900-January 1902; a volume identified as "Road Orders. Ordinance Book 1 and Minute Books [1 and 2 of the Court of Sessions]," which is dated April 1891-November 1898 and includes Court of Sessions entries on road matters from 1851; an index volume including an alphabetical listing of street names, a property index of matters in the City Archives (Volumes 5-31 inclusive) effecting real property within the boundaries of the present city limits, as well as items from the Municipal and County records (p.1-177; references to archives and county records are in red), and a miscellaneous list of items not located (p.179-188), with numbers on the map index corresponding to the pages where the references are found; and a loose manuscript identified as "Specifications for the construction of the New Santa Susanna Pass Road" (Sep.22, 1893).
mssHM 80341-80349
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This ledger contains 724 pages of cases heard by Los Angeles City Justice H. C. Austin from February 15 to June 15, 1887. The majority of the cases are misdemeanors, petty crime, assault and battery, burglary, disturbing the peace, and drunk and disorderly conduct. The entries include name of the defendant and attorney and the details of the case. Sometimes the entries give the results of the case, such as a fine being paid, etc.
mssHM 80285
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The road records kept by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors document ordinances, property boundaries, and construction details for various road building projects in Los Angeles County. The collection includes six volumes of road books; one volume identified as "Road Orders. Ordinance Book 1 and Minute Books [1 and 2 of the Court of Sessions]," which includes Court of Sessions entries on road matters from 1851; one index volume including an alphabetical listing of street names, a property index of matters in the City Archives (Volumes 5-31 inclusive) effecting real property within the boundaries of the present city limits, as well as items from the Municipal and County records (p.1-177; references to archives and county records are in red), and a miscellaneous list of items not located (p.179-188), with numbers on the map index corresponding to the pages where the references are found; and a loose manuscript identified as "Specifications for the construction of the New Santa Susanna Pass Road."
mss.HM.80341-80349
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This is a cash book kept by the Los Angeles County Treasurer from July 1850 till March 1858. Part of this book is written in Spanish and switches to English in April 1852. Also included, a carbon copy of minutes of a meeting with the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors concerning the deposit of this volume on October 2, 1945.
mssHM 80835