Excerpt from Appendix to Journals of Senate and Assembly, of the Twenty-First Session of the Legislature of the State of California, Vol. 3
By an Act of the Legislature approved March thirtieth, eighteen hun dred and seventy-four, the Board of State Prison Directors were charged with the duty and responsibility of erecting a Branch State Prison near Folsom, in Sacramento County.
On the sixth day of April, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, the Board met for the purpose of entering upon the discharge of their duties under the Act, and directed the publication of a notice in the Sacramento Daily Union and the San Francisco Evening Bulletin news papers, of which the following is a copy.
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