A Financial History of California. Public Revenues, Debts, and Expenditures.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1913 Book. Fine. Soft cover. Tall octavo. [2], 101-408pp. plus 4pp. index. 4 folding tables. Bibliography, index. Publisher's gray wrappers printed in black. Fore-edge of front wrapper and upper corner of rear wrapper with some curling and chipping, spine a bit darkened, else a fine copy. First edition. Scarce. Covers the early Spanish period (Spanish revenue laws, Mexican commercial regulations, etc.); an entire section of the decade of experimentation, 1850's (temporary state loan of 1850, foreign miner's license tax, the funding acts, stamp duties, etc.); California's financial problems of the 1860-1872 period; a period of unrest (1872-1880); revenue laws and railroad tax litigation; state receipts; state and local taxation, and more. The last section provides detailed charts of State expenditures, 1850-1910. .