GRANTS BY THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
for
"OUTSIDE LANDS"
Grants of Outside Lands have been made by
the Board in pursuance of Order No. 866 and the foregoing Act of the Legislature,
the first Order adjudging and awarding grants of said lands being adopted
on the 21st day of June, 1869. Prior to that time, the Board made
grants and passed the title to portions of the lands embraced within the
Van Ness Ordinance under the provisions of Order No. 748, the first grant
of these lands being made on the 11th day of March, 1867, and from that
date the Committee on Outside Lands have examined and reported upon twelve
hundred applications for lands lying west of Larkin and southwest of Johnston
(or Ninth street), embracing what is known as Van Ness and Outside Lands;
and although it was considered that the want of a record title was even
more necessary to the holders of property under the Van Ness Ordinance,
it being more difficult with each succeeding year to prove up and furnish
such proofs of possession as the Ordinance contemplates and the Courts
require, yet the necessity, if it exists, is not apparent from the applications
made, the greater portion of the applications and grants since June, 1869,
being for Outside Lands.
The following tables have been carefully complied
from the Records of the Board and show the grants, date and description
of Outside Lands made in blocks and portions of blocks, in what is known
as the Mission and Potrero; also, that portion west of the charter
line of 1851 and east of First avenue, with the land in acres, lying north
and south of the Park Reservation and east of the Spring Valley Water Works
Waste pond, where certificates have been issued which entitle the grantees
named to receive a deed from the Mayor, executed by him and sealed with
the corporate seal of the City and County of San Francisco; also,
the grants made where protests against the delivery of a conveyance have
been subsequently filed by reason of which the certificates for deeds are
withheld, awaiting the determination of pending suits:
Source: San Francisco Municipal Report
1870-1871, City and County of San Francisco, California
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