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HISTORY
OF
CALIFORNIA
F
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the Year 1897, by Theodore . Hittell,
In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
THE PACIFIC PRESS PRINTERS, ELECTROTYPERS AND BINDERS.
OAKLAND AND SAN FRANCISCO.
CONTENTS.
BOOK XI.
EARLY STATE ADMINISTRATIONS.
Legislation, advocated by him, against slaves, free negroes and mulat-
CHAPTER I.
BURNETT.
Peter H. Burnett, governor when state admitted into Union...
Sketch of his earlier life in Tennessee and Missouri........
How he emigrated to Oregon, and his settlement there.........
His part in forming provisional government for Oregon; specimens of
its laws.........
toes.....
How he became converted to Catholicism..........
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Judge of Oregon territory supreme court; his organization of company
for California gold mines
48
How he emigrated to California, and his first occupations there.........
Agitation of question of government for California...
49
Judge of superior tribunal of California; candidate for governor............. 50
First Democratic mass-meeting in California..........
Question of how candidates should be nominated...............
51
52
Democratic primaries; election of November 13, 1849; Burnett governor.. 53
His residence at San Francisco and San José; how he approved bills.....
Second Democratic mass-meeting; disorderly proceedings......
Spoils system of 1850 in San Francisco; rising of citizens, and result..... 56
Character of life in California in 1850.........
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Burnett's integrity; his weaknesses....
............
Legislature of 1851; Burnett's annual message; views on Indian affairs... 58
His ideas about negroes, and subsequently about Chinamen .....
His recommendations of legislation............
59
Resignation of office as governor; newspaper comment..
Barnett's personality; his subsequent career............
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