Excerpt from History of the Pacific States of North America, Vol. 15 IN the preceding volume I have completed the an nals Of California as a province of Spain and of the Mexican empire to the year 1824. In the present volume I continue its history as a territory and depart ment of the Mexican republic to 1840. But while 1825 40 are the chronological limits assigned, it has been found inconvenient, as already explained, to make the subdivisions of time and topics agree exactly. Local annals have been continued In an earlier volume to 1 880; herein they are completed for another decade, and the regular thread of political history is followed to 1840, but the institutional history for 1886 40, including some important phases of foreign relations, is necessarily left for the first six chapters of volume IV. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.