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 CHAPTER XXY.

LOCAL ANNALS OF SAN FRANCISCO DISTRICT.

1831-1840.

THE population of gente de razon at San Francisco, given as 300 in 1830, may be regarded as 280, about equally divided between the peninsula and contra costa, in 1840, the departure of the soldiers having more than counterbalanced the gain from other sources. Adding 750 for San Jos? and 200 for Sonoma and the northern frontier we have a total for the district of 1,330, a gain from 840 during the decade. The ex-neophyte Indian population had meanwhile decreased from 4,920 to 2,300, of which nura- (698)