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Title: Sacramento County (Calif.) Court of First Instance records
Dates: 1848-1853
Collection number: CNTY0012
Creator:
Sacramento County (Calif.). Court of First Instance
Creator:
Sacramento County (Calif.). Alcalde Court
Collection Size:
1.63 linear feet (3 boxes)
Repository:
Center for Sacramento History
Sacramento, California 95811-0229
Abstract: The collection contains records from the Sacramento Court of First Instance, the local judicial body of pre-statehood California
after U.S. annexation. Records date from 1848 to 1850 and include civil and criminal case files, court record and judgment
books, Alcalde Court documents, and court correspondence and petitions, plus documents from the Natoma, Mormon Island, and
Salmon Falls districts. Some records of note are case files relating to the Rising Sun Mining & Trading Company and the
Eagle Theater bankruptcy trial, and 1848 to 1849 documents in Spanish related to Dry Creek (Arroyo Seco).
Physical location: SP SV 22:A:2
Languages:
Languages represented in the collection:
English
Collection is open for research use.
All requests to publish or quote from private manuscripts held by the Center for Sacramento History (CSH) must be submitted
in writing to csh@cityofsacramento.org. Permission for publication is given on behalf of CSH as the owner of the physical
items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the patron.
No permission is necessary to publish or quote from public records.
[Identification of item and/or item number], [box and folder number], Sacramento County (Calif.) Court of First Instance records,
CNTY0012, Center for Sacramento History.
Transferred from the California State Archives in 1980 (accession #1980/132).
Biography / Administrative History
Courts of First Instance were the local judicial bodies of pre-statehood California after U.S. annexation. They were overseen
by an alcalde or judge and tried civil and criminal cases until the court was superseded by the District, County, and Sessions
Courts established by state legislature on March 30, 1850.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection contains records from the Sacramento Court of First Instance from 1848 to 1850, including civil and criminal
case files, court record and judgment books, Alcalde Court documents, and court correspondence and petitions, plus documents
from the Natoma, Mormon Island, and Salmon Falls districts. Some records of note are case files relating to the Rising Sun
Mining & Trading Company and the Eagle Theater bankruptcy trial, and 1848 to 1849 documents in Spanish related to Dry
Creek (Arroyo Seco).
The collection is arranged into 3 series:
Series 1. Civil case files, 1849-1853
Series 2. Criminal case files, 1849-1850
Series 3. Other court records, 1848-1850
Series 1. Civil case files, 1849-1853
Series 2. Criminal case files, 1849-1850
Series 3. Other court records, 1848-1850
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in
the library's online public access catalog.
Sacramento County (Calif.). Court of First Instance
Courts--Sacramento County (Calif.)--Cases
Sacramento County (Calif.)--Trials, litigation, etc.