Leland Stanford Papers

No. 323

Know all men by these Presents that the Central Pacific Railroad Company (successor to "The Central Pacific Railroad Company of California" "The Western Pacific Railroad Company" and the "California and Oregon Railroad Company" Consolidated,) in consideration of the sum of One ($1.00) dollars to it paid by James T. Mage of Stanis [Law?] County California the receipt where of is hereby [obscure text] hereby gives grants bargains sells and covers to the said his heirs and assigns the following described [obscure text]

Stanis Law County County California to wit: the West half of the South West quarter (W 1/2 of SW 1/4) of section twenty nine (29); also the pactional South West quarter (pac SW 1/4)

of Seciton No. Thirty one (31) in township No. Three (3) south of Range No. Nine (9) East Mount Diablo base and meridian containing Five hundred and fifty 52/100 (250 52/100) acres according to the United States survey together with all the privileges and appurtenances thereunto appertating and belonging. Excepting and reserving however for railroad purposes and strip of land four hundred feet wide lying equally on each side of the track of the railroad of said Company or any branch railroad now or hereafter constructed on said lands and the right to use all water needed for the operating and repairing of said railroads and subject also to the reservation and condition that the said purchaser his heirs and assigns shall erect and maintain good and sufficient fences on both sides of said strip or strips of land; and also reserving all claim of the United States to the same as mineral land.

To have and to hold the aforesaid premises to the said James T Mage his heirs and assigns to his and their use and behoof forever.

In Testimony whereof The said Central PAcific Railroad Company has caused these presents to be signed by its President and Secretary and sealed with its Corporate Seal; this Twenty fourth (24) day of December

Leland Stanford

Pres. C.P.R.R. Co.

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Certificate No 812H

The United States of America

To all to whom these presents shall come Greeting: Whereas Nicholas Garrison Harchner of Placer County California has deposited in the General Land Office of the United States a Certificate of the Register of the Land Office at Marysville California whereby it appears that full payment has been made by the said Nicholas Harrison Karchner according to the provisions of the Act of Congress of the 24th of April 1820, entitled "An Act making further provision for the sale of the public Lands" and the acts supplemental thereto for the south half of the southwest quarter of section thirty four in township fourteen north of range six east of Mount Diablo Meridian in California containing eight acres according to the Offical Plat of the Survey of the said Lands returned to the General Land Office by the Surveyor General which said Tract has been purchased by the Said Nicholas Harrison Karchner

Now know ye That the United States of American in consideration of the premises and in conformity with the several Acts of Congress in such case made and provided have given and granted and by these presents do give and grant unto the said Nicholas Harrison Karchner and his heirs the said Tract above described: To have and to hold the same together with all the sights privileges immunities and appurtenances of whatsoever nature thereunto belonging unto the said Nicholas Harrison Karchner and to his heirs and assign forever; subject to any bested and accrued water rights for mining agricultural manufacturing or other purposes and rights to ditches and reservoirs used in connection with such water rights as may be recognized and and acknowledged by the local customs laws and decisions of courts and also subject to the right of the proprietor of a vein as lade to extract and remove his are therefrom should the same be found to penetrate or intersect the premises hereby granted as provided by law.

In testimony where of F Chester A Arthur, President of the United States of America have caused these letters to be made Patent and the Seal of the General Land Office to be here unto affixed

Given under my hand at the City of Washington the [Seventh?] day od December in the years of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four and of the Independence of the Untied States the one hundred and ninth

By the President Chester A Arthur

By Mr Mo Bean, Secretary.

S W [Leeark?] Recorder of the General Land Office.

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Introduction letter to judge Lorenzo Sawyer from Judge James D. Thornton.

San Francisco, November 16th., 1885.

Hon. Lorenzo Sawyer,

Dear Sir:-

This will be handed to you by my friend, Doctor Max Axelrood, who desires to have some conversation with you in regard to Governor Stanford and the Institution of learning he desires to establish.

Dr. Axelrood is a man of good character and a physician of learning. He will explain to you what he desires. Please aid him as far as you can.

Very Respectfully Yours,

James D. Thornton.

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Endorsement of above letter by Judge Sawyer to Governor L. Stanford.

San Francisco, November 17th., 1885.

Hon. Leland Stanford,

Dear Sir:-

I have received the enclosed [insert] this [/insert] morning from Judge James D. Thornton, of the Supreme Court, and I respectfully refer it to you for consideration.

Respectfully Yours,

Lorenzo Sawyer.

Introduction letter to Senator L. Stanford, from H. I. Thornton, Esq., December 1st., 1885.

San Francisco, December 1st., 1885.

Hon. Leland Stanford, U.S. Senate,

Dear Sir:-

I have known for several years past in this city Dr. Max Axelrood. He has been engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery while here. He is a gentleman of good character and of cultivated talents, and has been entertained at the homes of respectable people and associates with them as their equals.

He is a Russian by birth and is thirty-six years of age. He speaks and writes the German, French, Polish and English languages as well as his own. He was educated at the Universities of Heidelberg in Germany, and at the Military Medical Academy in St. Petersburg, Russia. He served as surgeon in the Prussian army in the Franco-Prussian war and in the Russian army in the Russian-Turkish war.

He is a gentleman of industry and prudent habits and of active intellect, and is well versed in current history and affairs. As a student and a resident of this state, he has taken a deep interest in your magnificent gift to the people and coming generation, and is anxious to be employed by you as one of the commissioners to examine and report under the institutions of learning in the old world to the end that the most useful elements in them tried and established systems may be fairly submitted to your judgment.

I think that he would be valuable for you in that capacity and I would commend him to your consideration.

I remain, Yours Most Truly,

Harry I. Thornton.

To Governor and Mrs. Stanford,

Founders of the Leland Stanford, Jr., University.

Dear Sir and Madam:-

I beg leave to submit for your consideration the following suggestions touching the success of the great school of learning which your beneficience is about to inaugurate.

As it is designed to be as lasting as the state [insert notation: 3] and [insert notation: 2] and [--the--] national [insert notation: 1] governments, and as the munificence of it its endowment promises a growth of the University commensurate with that of the American population, the extent of its growth and influences will depend largely upon the wisdom of its early directions.

A grateful people hope to see this University fruitful of happy results during the continuance of the natural lives of its honored founders. In order to avoid mistakes, as well as to profit by the experience of other Universities, those having the practical direction of the building and conduct of the Leland Stanford, Jr., University might profitably be possessed of the experiences of centuries to serve as hints for their guidance in adapting this institution to the spirit of the age and to the wants of the American people according to the wishes of its founders.

To this end, I beg respectfully to suggest that inquiry be made into and report made upon the history and present condition of the leading universities and institutions of learning in America and Europe, as to such matters, for instance, as:

First:- The style, size, plans aqnd relative situations of the buildings and their various appurtenances;

Second:- Their libraries, extent, variety and character of books and their modes of administering them;

Third:- The value or extent of their respective funds, incomes and revenues, mode of investments;

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In their Curriculum;

Sixth:- The immediate authority that manages and controls them, respectively state, corporation or individuals; who has the visitorial power, to whom they report, and where is lodged the power of settling disputes among faculty, trustees or regents;

Seventh:- The qualification for the admission of students, the term of study preceding graduation, the expense of attendance per annum, etc.

Eighth:- The medical department; its divisions; clinical rooms, lecture rooms; medical, anatomo-pathological, orthopedical, surgical, anatomical, zoological, comparative-anatomical and different other museums; arrangement of dissecting rooms, museums, and labratories for teaching other important branches of the medical science, without which knowledge it is utterly impossible to become a good physician, and which branches are greatly neglected, or not taught at all in the medical schools of our city.

Ninth:- The philosophical, chemical and astronomical apparatus of each and the plan and facilities characterizing the administration of the same.

Tenth:- To report the prevailing opinions of the advanced thinkers, philosophers, teachers and scholars upon the new and mooted questions of the day, and amny more matters in the same line of inquiry which will suggest themselves to your minds.

Much of the knowledge proposed to be obtained by such inquiry and report would be useful if not indispensable in framing the plan and fixing the relative locality of the buildings you propose to erect.

With the best ability, advantage and zeal in one intrusted with this great mission, it would require some time to gather the information, and in order to avoid missteps, the inquiry should commence as soon as possible among the schools, academies, conservatories, polytechnical high-schools, agronomical institutions, universities, etc., of the world, as for instance, those of Paris,

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To Governor and Mrs. Stanford

Founders of the "Leland Stanford Jr." University

Dear Sir and Madame,

I beg leave to submit for your consideration the following suggestions, touching the success of the great school of learning, wich your beneficence is about to inaugurate.

As it is designed to be as lasting as the national and State governements, and as the munificence of its endowment promises a growth of the university commensurate with that of the American population, the extent of its growth and influences will depend largely upon the wisdom of its early directions.

A grateful people hope to see this university fruitfull of happy results during the lives of its honored founders. In order to avoid mistakes, as well as to profit by the experience of other universities, those having the practical direction of the building and conduct of the "Leland Stanford Jr." University might profitably be

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possesed of the experience of centuries, to serve as hints for their guidance in adapting this new institution to the spirit of the age and to the wants of the American people, according to the wishes of its founders.

To this end I beg leave respectfully to suggest, that inquiry be made into and report made upon the history and present condition of the leading Universities, Academies, Conservatories, Polytechnical high-schools, Agronomical institutions and various other institutions of learning in America and Europe, as to such matters, for instance, as:

1 / The style, size, plans and relative situations of the buildings and their various appurtenances.

2 / Their libraries, extent, variety and character of books and their modes of administering them.

3 / The value or extent of their respective funds, incomes and revenues, mode of investments

4 / The number of professors and teachers; their salaries and compensation.

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5 / The branches of learning taught in each, and the ones most prominent in their curriculum.

6 / The immediate authority that manages and controls them respectively: state, corporation, or individuals; who has the visitorial power, to whom they report, and where is lodged the power of settling disputes among faculty, trustees or regents.

7 / The qualification for the admission of students, the term of study preceeding graduation, the expense of attendance per annum etc.

8 / The medical department; its divisions: clinical rooms, lecture rooms; medical, anatomo-pathological, orthopedical, surgical, anatomical, zoological, comparative-anatomical and different other museums; arrangement of dissecting rooms; chemical and microscopical laboritories as well as many other lecture-rooms, museums and laboratories for teaching other important branches of the medical science, without which knowledge it is utterly impossible to become a good physician, and which

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branches are greatly neglected or not taught at all in the medical schools in our city.

9 / The philosophical, chemical and astronomical appartus of each and the plan and facilities chracterizing the administration of the same.

10 / To report the prevailing opinions of the most advanced thinkers, teachers, philosophers and scholars upon the new and mooted questions of the day, and many more matters in the same line of inquiry which will suggest themselves to your minds.

Much of the knowledge proposed to be obtained by such inquiry and report would be useful if not indispensable in framing the plan and fixing the relative locality of the buildings you propose to erect.

With the best ability, advantages and zeal in one intrusted with this great mission it would require some time to gather the information, and in order to avoid missteps, the inquiry should commence as soon as possible among the schools and universities of the world, as for instance those of: Paris, London, Vienna,

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