Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- San Joaquin County (Calif.) Account Book,
- Dates:
- 1850-1862
- Creators:
- R. Coke Wood
- Language:
- English.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], San Joaquin County (Calif.) Account Book, Mss126, Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library
Background
- Scope and content:
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This account book contains a record of at least some of the financial transactions of the county government during its earliest years. Because the pages are unnumbered, access to entries is provided by numbered streamers.
- Biographical / historical:
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San Joaquin county was established in 1850 as one of the original counties of the state of California. The Court of Sessions, faced with a considerable indebtedness at the beginning of 1851, established the first property tax in San Joaquin county in May of that year. The amount of the tax was twenty-five cents on every one hundred dollars. The Court also initiated a poll tax of four dollars. The cost of running the county in 1851 was $36,063.60. The new taxes did not raise this amount and, in April 1852, the State authorized San Joaquin county to issue bonds to cover its indebtedness.
- Physical location:
- For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the library's online catalog.
- Physical description:
- 0.5 linear ft.
About this collection guide
- Date Prepared:
- © 1998
- Date Encoded:
- Machine-readable finding aid derived from paper by means of scanning and OCR; OCR file edited for typographical errors before encoding. Date of source: 1993.
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Collection is open for research.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], San Joaquin County (Calif.) Account Book, Mss126, Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library
- Location of this collection:
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University of the Pacific, Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections, University LibraryStockton, CA 95211, US
- Contact:
- (209) 946-2404