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Temporary State Loan from Governor Peter Burnett to Supposed state of California (91942)

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Temporary State Loan from Governor Peter Burnett to Supposed state of California  (91942)
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What a marvelous historical document: both the good and the bad. It is a Temporary State Loan from the state of California. It is dated March 1850. Despite California's enthusiasm for state hood, it was not until September 9 that California was admitted as a non-slave state and not until October 18 that the citizens learned of this vote when the steamer Oregon pulled into the Bay harbor with a banner strapped to her rigging reading,"California is Now A State." This loan of $100 was number 418. It is signed on back by Peter Burnett as governor. Printed by the Alta California, San Francisco. Handwritten paid. THE GOOD: Peter Burnett headed to Oregon in 1843. There he hoped to pay off his Missouri debts from his farming problems. He ended up as the Provisional Supreme Judge. With the Gold Rush he moved his family to California. He was the first civilian elected as Governor of the state of California replacing the military rule. He easily won over four others including General John C Fremont. He worked with the legislature to put a government in place and create a workable condition. THE BAD: Burnett's white supremacist views where very evident. In Oregon he signed into legislation Oregon's exclusion law which required all blacks to leave the region or be flogged every six months until they left. He continued his anti-black policies. His first annual message to the legislature included, "We have certainly the right to prevent any class of population [blacks] from settling in our State...and the object is to keep them out." He also pursued a policy of a "war of extermination" with the Native American population and declared that warfare would not cease "Until the Indian race becomes extinct." He was a strong proponent of the Chinese exclusion act of 1882. ["American West, a New Interpretive HIstory by Hine and Mack, Brunett speeches, wikipedia] Ken Prag Collection

Date: 1850
City/County: San Jose
State: California