Title: Petition of John A. Sutter, praying compensation for land owned by him in California, and held under Mexican grants, which was settled upon and occupied by settlers from the United States, under the plea that it was public land, after the conquest of California, and indemnity for the seizure and destruction of large quantities of his live stock by parties of emigrants from the United States
Subjects: Emigration and immigration, Searches and seizures, Livestock