A Compilation of the Laws Relating to Elections, Citizenship and...
Rare 1877 San Francisco Election and Naturalization Manual Clarke, Alfred, Compiler. A Compilation of the Laws Relating to Elections, Citizenship and Naturalization, Now in Force in the State of California, Including the Constitutional and Statutory Provisions Relating Thereto; Also, the Political Divisions of the City and County of San Francisco. San Francisco: Bunker & Hiester, Printers, 1877. Octavo (8-3/4" x 5-1/2"; 22.2 x 14 cm). xxiii, [1], 184 pp. 3 diagrams, 1 folded map of Wards and Election Precincts. Sewn stamped yellow printed wrappers. Moderately edgeworn and soiled. Internally clean. A very good copy. $450. * An important historical legal reference book compiled by Alfred Clarke, an attorney and counselor at law, for the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco. It tracks early state statutes in the diverse and fast-evolving constitutional and statutory provisions governing voting and civil status in Reconstruction-era California prior to the major overhaul of the 1879 California Constitution. The text outlines the criteria used by state and federal courts in California to process citizenship applications during a turbulent period of shifting immigration demographics and legal battles over nationality. It features a specialized local section outlining the municipal wards, voting precincts and district boundaries specific to the City and County of San Francisco during the late 1870s. This work was compiled at a time when local municipalities and states still wielded massive influence over the policing of alien arrivals and the distribution of political rights before federal frameworks centralized standard immigration policy.
Price: $450.00
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