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Case file for United States vs. City of Sacramento, Sacramento City Land [Sacramento County]. Includes transcript of the proceedings and related documents.
Presumably based on Sutter's grant of New Helvetia. Claim filed by the City of Sacramento Mar. 3, 1853, for about 4 square miles of the land within the city limits. Rejected by the Board April 17, 1855. Appeal dismissed by the District Court April 21, 1856. It was not claimed as a Mexican grant; and was rejected because of lack of evidence of such a grant. Bowman, J.N. Index of the Spanish-Mexican private land grant records and cases of California, I, 652 (shelved as BANC MSS C-R 17, Bancroft Library).
Associated Case Numbers: Docket 793, 303 ND

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