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Ledger book with 3 leaves containing manuscript writing, beginning with the first which records the sale of shares, the amount due, and the date paid. 34.7x21 cm. (13¾x8¼"), half leather and cloth, spine lettered in gilt, "Assessment Book." * Also, a book of stock certificates for the Pax Land Company. 67 certificates were filled out with manuscript information, some of which only the stub (not the certificate) remains. The full certificate pages measure 21.2x34.8 cm. (8¼x13¾"), in cloth-backed boards.

Also includes four copies of a 4-page agreement for sale of land from the Pax Land Company. The agreement is not filled out. Interestingly, there is one delinquent payment on record within the ledger book, Ethel K. Warner who purchased 3540 shares at ten cents per share, owing $354. According to the Delinquent Sale Notice (excised from another publication and pasted to the page facing the first in ledger) that person's shares were auctioned from the companies Market Street office in San Francisco.