An act : to define the rights of claimants to the waters of streams in the mining districts of this state, for mining purposes : ms., [1849 or 1850] / the people of the State of California in Senate and Assembly...

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An act : to define the rights of claimants to the waters of streams in the mining districts of this state, for mining purposes : ms., [1849 or 1850] / the people of the State of California in Senate and Assembly...

An act : to define the rights of claimants to the waters of streams in the mining districts of this state, for mining purposes : ms., [1849 or 1850] / the people of the State of California in Senate and Assembly...

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/85182615

Draft law concerning water regulations for the mining districts of California "until the Congress of the United States shall by law assume the control of the mineral lands of this State." Text places the influential legal theory of prior claim in written form during the pivotal time of the Gold Rush.

7 p. ; 32 cm.

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