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Box 22

 Container

Contains 65 Results:

Release of Mortgage, John Hancock to E. F. Spence, Feb. 25, 1881

 File — Box: 22, Folder: 24
Scope and Content From the Sub-Series:

Legal documents regarding various lawsuits involving Rancho La Brea land holdings, John Hancock's estate notebooks, various Hancock family wills and financial documents, mortgage documents for Rancho La Brea.

Dates: Feb. 25, 1881

Annual report of the Surveyor-General, for the year 1858, 1858

 File — Box: 22, Folder: 25
Scope and Content From the Sub-Series:

Legal documents regarding various lawsuits involving Rancho La Brea land holdings, John Hancock's estate notebooks, various Hancock family wills and financial documents, mortgage documents for Rancho La Brea.

Dates: 1858

Sausal Redondo, 1869

 File — Box: 22, Folder: 26
Scope and Contents

Argument in favor of Survey made in July 1868, E. R. Carpentier, of counsel for claimants, before the Surveyor General of California, printed in San Francisco, 1869.

Dates: 1869

In the matter of the protest against the survey of the Pueblo Lands of the City of Los Angeles, California, 186?

 File — Box: 22, Folder: 27
Scope and Contents

Appeal from the decision of the honorable Commissioner of the General Land Office, Henry Hancock, attorney for the parties protesting, before Hon. Columbus Delano, Secretary of the Interior.

Dates: 186?

In the matter of the survey of the Ranchos San Jose, Addition, and Azusa, 186-?

 File — Box: 22, Folder: 28
Scope and Contents

Letter of Hancock, or Supplemental of Larrabee & Hancock, before Hon. Sherman Day, U.S. Surveyor General.

Dates: 186-?

People of the State of California, appellants vs. John Hancock, John C. Hays, and certain Real Estate, respondents, 1868?

 File — Box: 22, Folder: 29
Scope and Contents

Respondent's reply to appellants' points, in the Supreme Court of the State of California, C. G. French and Henry Hancock, attorneys for defendants (2 copies).

Dates: 1868?

Application of Edward Merrill, 1866

 File — Box: 22, Folder: 30
Scope and Contents

Review of the decision of the register and receiver of the Los Angeles District U.S. Land Office, by Merrill and the State of California, before the Hon. Commissioner of the General Land Office at Washington, D.C.

Dates: 1866

George N. Howard, et al., contestants, vs. Edward Merrill, ex rel., State of California relative to state selection by California School Land Warrants, nos. 156 and 227, 1868?

 File — Box: 22, Folder: 31
Scope and Contents

J.W. Shanklin and Henry Hancock, soliciting that said decision be affirmed, reply to contestants' arguments on appeal from decision of the Hon. Commissioner of the General Land Office, before Hon. Columbus Delano, Secretary of the Interior, Washington, D.C.

Dates: 1868?

Geo. H. Howard, W. H. Mace, G. O. Wilkinson, W. Gillette and the South Pacific R. R. Company v. Edward Merrill, Locator of California School Land Warrants 156 and 227, 1866?

 File — Box: 22, Folder: 32
Scope and Contents

Henry Hancock, Att'y for Edward Merrill and the State of California, before the Hon. Commissioner of the General Land Office, on appeal from the Los Angeles District California.

Dates: 1866?

Warren H. Mace, plaintiff and respondent, vs. Edward Merrill, defendant and appellant, 187?

 File — Box: 22, Folder: 33
Scope and Contents

Transcript on appeal, Henry Hancock, attorney for defendant and appellant, Hartman & Haley, attorneys for plaintiff and respondent, in the Supreme Court of the State of California: Cover crossed off in pencil.

Dates: 187?