Brief for the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives on the Title of Yerba Buena Island: Owners: Benjamin S. Brooks, John Center

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Excerpt from Brief for the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives on the Title of Yerba Buena Island: Owners: Benjamin S. Brooks, John Center, Egbert JudsonThe said Dowling and Jennings took possession of and occupied the Island in 1849, and they and their grantees and legal successors have continued in posses sion thereof up to this time, except such portion of it as the military authorities seized and occupied late in the year 1866, and have continued ever Since to occupy.The State of California, in 1850, legalized Simple possessory titles, and, in various cases, the courts of the State have sustained the title of the said Dowling and Jennings. In 1858, the pre-emption laws of the United States were extended to California, but no actual surveys were made of the public lands till long afterwards. The city of San Francisco had reached a population of seventy-five thousand before any sort of title could be acquired from the United States. All unsurveyed lands were by law reserved from sale, by general entry or pre-emption. This state of things caused great con¿ict, confusion, and uncertainty, with respect to the titles of lands made valuable by improve ments of individuals, and the rapid extension of com merce and business as a direct consequence thereof.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.