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Office of the Surveyor General, Of the United States for California

I, J. W. Mandeville, Surveyor General of the United States for the State of California, and as such, having in my office, and in my charge and custody, a portion of the Archives of the former Spanish and Mexican Territory or Department of Upper California, as also the papers of the late Board of Commissioners "to ascertain and settle private land claims in California;" by virtue of the power vested in me by law, Do Hereby Certify that the four preceding, and hereunto annexed pages of tracing paper numbered from one to four inclusive, exhibit a true full and correct copy of an original document, as the same appears on file in my office.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto signed my name officially and caused my Seal of Office to be affixed, at the City of San Francisco, this 3rd day of September AD 1858.

J. W. Mandeville U. S. Surveyor General for California

Extract from the 2nd Section of the Act of Congress "Providing for the Survey of Public Lands in California, and for other purposes." [Approved, March 3d, 1858.]

"The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to cause an official Seal to be prepared for the Office of the said Surveyor General, (California) and any copy or extract from the plats, field notes and other records and documents on file in his office, when attested as such by the said Seal and the signature of the Surveyor General, shall, in all judicial matters, have the same force and effect as the original."

Extract from an Act of the Legislature of the State of California "concerning certified copies of certain Instruments in Writing." [Approved, April 29th, 1857.]

"Sec. 1. Copies of all papers, lately belonging to the United States Board of Commissioners for the settlement of private land claims in California, and on file in the office of the Surveyor General of the United States for the State of California, and all copies of documents and papers belonging to said Surveyor's office, which copies shall have been duly certified to be true copies by said Surveyor; shall be received and read in evidence, in the same manner, and with like effect as the originals."

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