Single pocket expanding folder containing the following documents:

1. Bound typescript, "Reports and Comments: D.E. Hughes, November 30, 1915, August 12, 1931, January 16, 1936," including "Report of D.E. Hughes, November 30, 1915," 83 pp with narrative discussion of earlier surveys of San Pedro Harbor surveys, especially noting the limits of their accuracy and sources of their errors, with some tables (1915), "Report of D.E. Hughes, August 12, 1931, calculations," 9 pp of typescript calculations re earlier surveys, with some narrative discussion of surveying techniques (1931), "Report of D.E. Hughes, January 16, 1936," alternate title on p 1" Appendix No. 4, Old Surveys in and near Los Angeles Harbor," 32 pp with narrative discussion of earlier surveys, with tables and explanation of how Hughes retraced earlier survey lines (1936)

2. Bound typescript, "Compilation of Correspondence and other documents from files of Commissioner of General Land Office at Washington, annual reports of Surveyor General of California, and Federal Statutes," William W. Clary, 206 pp with extracts from official government documents and correspondence re surveying in California, arranged chronologically with tabs by year (1849-1870) including some tipped-in copies of documents (undated)

3. Bound typescript, "Memorandum re patent surveys of San Pedro and Los Cerritos grants," William W. Clary, 81 pp with narrative discussion of surveys of San Pedro and Los Cerritos land grants, with comments on activities re land claims and surveying by year, bound in with correspondence from Francis Bates to William W. Clary re compilation of correspondence and documents and memo prepared by Clary, 16 pp (1939)

4. Paperbound book "Formulas and Tables for the Computation of Geodetic Positions," seventh edition US Department of Commerce, Coast and Geodetic Survey, Special Publication No. 8, 101 pp. Mostly tables for computation of geodetic positions. (1933)

5. Untitled typescript by Gail C. Larkin, 8 pp, discussing what tidelands are, who owns them, and who claims the mineral rights, especially to oil underlying them - according to Larkin, California owned mineral rights to all tidelands except those conveyed to private ownership by Spain and Mexico; US Government claims to the oil as Naval reserves were largely specious (undated)