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Bibliography: a History of the California Supreme Court, 1850–1879 535 ✯ BIBLIOGRAPHY: A HISTORY OF THE CALIFORNIA SUPREME COURT, 1850–1879 535 BIBLIOGR APHY Laws, Statutes, Court Reports, and Government Documents United States Statutes at Large. Supreme Court Reports. Circuit Court Reports. California Statutes. Supreme Court Reports. California. Legislature. Senate and Assembly Journals (1849–1850). Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Reports. Books Angel, Myron. History of San Luis Obispo County California. Introduction by Louisiana Clayton Dart. Reproduction of Thompson and West’s 1883 edition. Berkeley: Howell-North Books, 1966. Aptheker, Herbert, ed. A Documentary History of the Negro People in the Unit- ed States. Preface by W. E. B. DuBois. New York: The Citadel Press, 1951. Ayers, James J. Gold and Sunshine; Reminiscences of Early California. Bos- ton: Richard G. Badger, 1922. Baldwin, Joseph Glover. The Flush Times of California. Edited by Richard E. Amacher and George W. 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