Leyes de California Aprobadas en la Quinta Sesi¢n de la Lejislatura
Rare Spanish-Language Printing of the 1854 California Session Laws, OCLC Locates 3 Copies in Law Libraries [California]. Mauriz, H. Gomez, Translator. Leyes de California Aprobadas en la Quinta Sesion de la Lejislatura que Comenzo en Benicia el Cuatro de Enero de 1854, Y Concluyo en Sacramento el Quince de Mayo del Mismo Ano. Traducidas del Ingles por H. Gomez Mauriz, Traductor del Estado. Sacramento: Impresas por B. Redding, 1854. iv, 223 pp. Octavo (8-3/4" x 5-1/2"; 22.22 x 13.97 cm). Contemporary sheep, blind fillets to boards, blind fillets and red and black lettering pieces to spine. Light rubbing and a few minor scuffs and scratches to boards, "Mills" in early hand to head of front board, moderate rubbing to extremities, joints starting at head, minor worming to foot. Light toning to interior, negligible dampstaining to foot of text block, light foxing in places, offsetting to margins of endleaves, faint (and illegible) embossed seal to front free endpaper. A very good copy overall. $500. * First printing. Spanish-language edition of statutes passed at the fifth legislative session. Early California statutes were issued in English and Spanish, as required by a provision in the state constitution. When it was drafted, in 1849, Spanish was the native language of around 13,000 of California's nearly 100,000 residents, many of them recent arrivals due to the gold rush (1848-1855). Several statutes concern the incorporation of settlements. One of these established Sacramento as the state capital. There are a few statutes reflecting the gold rush; one of these imposed a license fee on foreign prospectors. There is also an anti-immigration tax intended mostly to discourage Chinese immigration. Another statute upheld an 1852 statute enforcing the Fugitive Slave Law, which reflected the influence of recent arrivals from slave states. OCLC locates 11 copies, 3 in law libraries (University of Michigan, University of Minnesota, Yale). Babbitt, Hand-List of Legislative Sessions and Session Laws 22.
Price: $500.00
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