Los Angeles Prefecture Records [microform] 1825-1850, MSS MFilm 00382 Vol. A

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  Los Angeles Prefecture Records [microform] 1825-1850, MSS MFilm 00382 Vol. 1

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  Archives of the Prefecture of Los Angeles translated into English from Spanish originals.

  MSS MFilm 00382

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  Los Angeles Prefecture Records [microform] 1825-1850, MSS MFilm 00382 Vol. 2

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  Archives of the Prefecture of Los Angeles translated into English from Spanish originals.

  MSS MFilm 00382

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  Los Angeles Prefecture records

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  These records include alcalde correspondence, 1823; ayuntamiento minutes from 1832; judicial records of civil and criminal cases; records of the Los Angeles prefecture from 1834; register of cattle brands and marks, 1833-52; notarial records; petitions for land; claims for mines; deeds, mortgages, contracts, bankruptcy papers, and wills; inventories of personal and household goods; court-martial papers; censuses; and decrees and proclamations.

  mssHM 81572-81574

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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.

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  The Deseret News and Utah, 1850-1867 [microform], 1949

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  Microfilm of Arlington Russell Mortensen's doctoral thesis from the University of California, Los Angeles, entitled "The Deseret News and Utah, 1850-1867," written in 1949. The preface to the paper notes that "in addition to being a history of the birth and early years of a western newspaper, this study proposes to examine significant events and conditions in pioneer Utah as reflected in the pages of its oldest newspaper." The paper is divided into six sections: Genesis and Early Problems, News Gathering and Later Editors, Federal Relations 1850-1856, The News and the Utah War, Federal Relations 1859-1867, the Breaking of Isolation, and Zion Grows. Includes bibliography.

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  Correspondence and manuscripts related to John Milton Bernhisel [microform]: 1825-1912 (bulk 1850-1864)

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  Microfilm of miscellaneous manuscripts and letters related to John Milton Bernhisel. The reel contains an autobiography of Bernhisel by an unknown author; a variety of letters and certificates primarily addressed to Bernhisel, including on his appointment as President of the Board of Examination Doctors (1864), his election as a delegate to Congress (1851), his certificates of election as delegate (1853, 1855, 1861), recommendations of appointment for "several officers sent the President" (1850), a recommendation for appointment of governor, secretary, and chief justice of territory (1850), a letter concerning room in the council house for federal offices (1847), a copy of a letter to the President concerning appointment of office for Utah (1850), a letter concerning pay for the territorial secretary (1855), a letters concerning an advance to Marshall Heywood for costs of the Territorial Commission (1854), a letter concerning the cost account of the Territorial Library (1855), a letter "concerning bids for and gifts to the Utah Library of Book, etc." (1850), a letter concerning the erection of the capitol building, probably at Fillmore, Utah (1854), a letter concerning the building of the Utah Penitentiary (1859), a letter concerning the military road from Bridger's Pass to Salt Lake City (1859), a protest against the Cullen Bill concerning polygamy (1870), a letter concerning pay for Dr. Bernhisel as territorial agent by Stephan A. Douglas (1850), newspaper clippings and a letter from Brigham Young (1850), a letter concerning the use of camels for transporting army stores (1852), a letter concerning the use of camels in the west (1852), a printed Appellant's Statement of the Case and Argument in Bernhisel vs. Daniel R. Firman (1874), a letter from Millard Fillmore and some assorted calling cards (1853), a printed obituary for Bernhisel (1881), 5 letters from Bernhisel to his wife Elizabeth (1862), a letter to Brigham Young (1850), an unsigned letter regarding property in Alabama (1825), a speech at a family reunion in Lewiston, Utah (undated), and the text of "Dr. John Milton Bernhisel: Utah's First Delegate to the National Congress," a paper read at the Genealogical Society of Utah by David M. Bernhisel (1912).

  MSS MFilm 00360