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Los Angeles County ledger recording commercial licenses

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Description: A ledger recording commercial licenses issued by the County of Los Angeles between 1852 and 1855. The licenses are for selling general merchandise; operating a restaurant; selling wine and liquor; and being a foot peddler. For each license granted, the ledger records the date of transaction, period of the license (mostly only good 3-6 months), person to whom it was granted, and fee paid to the County. Only 25 pages of the ledger are used, but they record about 400 transactions and seem to be a complete record of the period May 1852 to May 1855.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1852-1855.
Call number: mssHM 83162
Creator: Los Angeles County (Calif.)(Opens in new tab)

Notebook of commercial/residency and travel licenses granted to Chinese by Governor-Generals of the Spanish Philippines

Manuscripts

This manuscript, bound in a parchment cover, records copies of travel and residency/commercial licenses that the Spanish Governor-Generals of the Philippines Don Félix Berenguer de Marquina (1733-1826) and Rafael María de Aguilar y Ponce de León (died in 1806) issued to the "Sangleyes," a word used in the Colonial Spanish Philippines to refer to Chinese. The licenses were issued from 1793, February 16 to December 18. Don Félix left the Philippines by September 1, 1793, and de Aguilar succeeded him by that date. The licenses are formulaic and words are often abbreviated, befitting legal records. The licensees are all Chinese men, though occasionally a license does mention the licensee's wife and family. The licenses are granted for various activities, ranging from work with livestock, usually pigs and cattle, the right to practice agriculture and trade. The licenses grant residence permits for Chinese to live in places in the Philippines ranging from the Panay of the Visayas Islands to Los Baños on Luzon. Sometimes the licenses only permit a stay of two to three months in an area; others seem indefinite. The licenses also granted the right of Chinese, often described as captains, to return to China after trading in the Philippines. More than one scribe recorded the licenses, as evidenced by the at least two hands of the manuscript.

mssHM 81169

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Record book kept by the Los Angeles County Treasurer

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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

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Two license books of John Larpent

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Register of licenses issued by John Larpent from Jan. 1801 to Jan 15, 1824. The entries include the names and brief descriptions of the plays for which licenses were granted, with the name of the theatre where it was to be performed, together with the entry for the license fee. In addition to the London theatres -- the Haymarket, Covent Garden, Drury Lane, the Adelphi and the Olympic -- there are entries for provincial theaters such as Norwich, Birmingham, Margate, Liverpool, Manchester, York, Hull, and Glasgow, sometimes with the name of the manager. A few plays are crossed out as "refused." There is an entry for "An address to be spoken on Master Betty's 1st appearance in London, Theatre Royal Covent Garden Dec. 1st 1804."

mssHM 19926

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Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors road records

Manuscripts

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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El Dorado County Treasurer's Office (?). Licenses and fees ledger

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Funds received from purchases of business licenses and from fees for county services.

mssEl Dorado County

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El Dorado County Treasurer's Office (?). Licenses, fees and funds ledger

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Includes accounts for county funds as well as licenses and fees.

mssEl Dorado County

Los Angeles County ledger recording commercial licenses

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