Political and legal history of Florida

Publication

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Jacksonville History Center

Name/Title

Political and legal history of Florida

Entry/Object ID

2020.003.052

Description

lxi-cxxxi pages : 26 cm. Political and legal history of Florida by James B. Whitfield, former Justice of the Supreme Court of Florida. Cover: Reprinted from Florida statutes annotated, vol. 1, 1943. Copyright 1943, Harrison Company, Atlanta, Ga., West Publishing CO., St. Paul, Minn. Contents: Pre-territorial summary -- Territory of Florida, 1822-1845 -- State of Florida 1845 -- Land grants and land titles -- Constitutional conventions -- Revisions and compilations of statutes. Selected contents: Major General Andrew Jackson (starts on page LXV) -- Location of seat of government (starts on LXXI) -- Supreme Court of Florida (starts on LXXXIII) -- State Railroad Commission (LXXXVIII) -- State Auditing Department, State Board of Health, other State Boards (LXXXIX) -- General British Statues prior to 1776 (XCVI) -- Boundaries of Florida (XCVII) -- Counties in Florida (1st were Escambia and St. Johns) -- Counties as created (CI) Duval created August 12, 1822 -- Land surveys in Florida (CIII) including rectangular system of surveys, townships to be 6 miles square -- Origin of land titles (CVI) -- Lands ceded by Spain to the United States -- Sixteenth or school sections; Seminary lands (CXI) -- Public Lands; Some Indian and Spanish Grants (CXXVI) -- Forbes purchase (CXXVII) -- Other Spanish grants start on page CXXVIII (Arredondo Spanish Grant, Spanish grant to Daniel Hogans, Spanish grant to Maria Suarez (widow of Purnal Taylor), John Masters)

Collection

Library

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Book

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Search Terms

Law -- Florida -- History., Florida -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950., Hogans, Daniel., Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845., Land grants -- Florida.

Publication Details

Author

Whitfield, James B. (James Bryan), 1860-1948.

Publisher

Harrison Company

Place Published

* Untyped Place Published

Atlanta, Ga.

Call No.

KFF 409 .W478 1943