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 CHAPTER XXIII.

LOCAL ANNALS OF SANTA BARBARA DISTRICT.

1831-1840.

THE population of Santa BaYbara district, not including San Fernando, which was legally within its jurisdiction, increased from 630 in 1830 to about 900 in 1840, so far as the meagre and contradictory records afford a basis for estimate. During the same period the ex-neophyte Indian population decreased from 4,400 to 1,550, the latter number including 750 in town and on the ranches, in addition to 800 still living in the ex-mission communities. Adding the totals of population for the three districts of San Diego, Los Angeles, and Santa Barbara, we find that in (649)