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Book Title: History Of Contra Costa County, California

   In glancing at the heading of this chapter we must ask the reader not to
indulge in the vain hope that a full history of the grants comprised within the
limits of what is known as Contra Costa county will be found; such, indeed,
would be beyond the limits of this work, even had we at hand the infinity of
resources to be found in the hundreds of cases which have arisen out of them.
Our compilation must of necessity be accepted in its crude form. We have striven
to our utmost capacity to produce some information which would combine both
usefulness and correctness, and to this end have relied chiefly on the
information contained in a legal work, on whose title page is the legend,
"Reports of land cases determined in the United States District Court for the
Northern District of California, June Term. 1853, to June Term, 1858, inclusive.
By Ogden Hoffman, District Judge, San Francisco; Numa Hubert, 1862." The first
case we find on page 79, vol. 1:—

   THE UNITED STATES, Appellants, vs. SALVIO PACHECO, claiming the Rancho Monte
del Diablo. Claim for four leagues of land in Contra Costa county, confirmed by
the Board, and appealed by the United States. In this case a grant from Governor
Figueroa to the claimant is produced and proved, and evidence is offered to
prove the occupation and cultivation of the land within the year, as prescribed
in the grant. In the opinion of the Board, the grant is treated as undoubtedly
genuine, and the fact of the performance of the conditions as indisputable. No
additional testimony has been taken in this Court, nor has any reason for
refusing the decree of the Board and rejecting the claim been suggested to us on
the part of the appellants. The only objection that could have been raised—viz.,
the want of judicial possession, and the fact that the land is within the ten
littoral leagues, has already repeatedly been overruled. A decree confirming the
claim must therefore be entered. (December Term, 1855.)


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

HISTORY OF CONTRA COSTA COUNTY,
CALIFORNIA,
INCLUDING ITS GEOGRAPHY, GEOLOGY, TOPOGRAPHY, CLIMATOGRAPHY AND DESCRIPTION;
TOGETHER WITH A RECORD OF THE MEXICAN GRANTS; THE BEAR FLAG WAR; THE MOUNT
DIABLO COAL FIELDS; THE EARLY HISTORY AND SETTLEMENT, COMPILED FROM THE MOST
AUTHENTIC SOURCES; THE NAMES OF ORIGINAL SPANISH AND MEXICAN PIONEERS; FULL
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY OF THE COUNTY; SEPARATE HISTORY OF EACH TOWNSHIP, SHOWING
THE ADVANCE IN POPULATION AND AGRICULTURE;
ALSO,
Incidents of Pioneer Life; and Biographical Sketches
OF EARLY AND PROMINENT SETTLERS AND REPRESENTATIVE MEN;
AMD OF ITS TOWNS, VILLAGES, CHURCHES, SECRET SOCIETIES, ETC.
ILLUSTRATED.
SAN FRANCISCO: W. A. SLOCUM & CO., PUBLISHERS
1882.


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