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Show BIBLIOGRAPHY Archives Bancroft, Bureau H. H. of Carleton, Crook, Ethnology Gen. J. H. Gen. Washington, Reports Enterprise A. A. Indian Affairs Meline, J. F. Miles, New New Gen. Nelson Mexican Mexico A. Gen. John Shelton, W. T. Department, Washington, D. C., Newspaper, Santa Fé, N. M., files of, 1867-1887. Reports and Messages of Governors, 1866-1888. Session Laws and Council and House Journals, 1867- 1887, Pope, Mexican Lanp Grants — Act or Conoress CREATOF SURVEYOR GENERAL— Private LAanp CLamms — GEORGE W. JULIAN — Errorts FoR CONGRESSIONAL ACTION — ESTABLISHMENT OF CourRT oF Private LAND CLAIMS — THE CourRT AND Its WorK— THE Barony OF ARIZONA — PERALTA-REAVIS D. C. of, War 1885, 1886. Newspaper, files of, Silver City, N. M., 1883, 1884, 1885, 1886, 1887. New Mexico Campaign, Magazine of Am. Hist., Feb., 1886. Reports, U. 8. Gov. Doe., 41st cong., 2d sess., Sen. Miscl. Doc., 97, Washington, D. C. Two Thousand Miles on Horseback, New York, 1867. On the Trail of Geronimo, Cosmopolitan Magazine, vol. li, 1911. Santa State. Reports of, War 1877, 1878. Fé, N. M., , office Department, of Secretary Washington, D. of C., Report of, Indian Affairs Reps., Washington, D. C. Al SPANISH AND ING OFFICE Reports of 1863, 1864, 1865, 1866, War Department, George Hayes, CHAPTER New Mexican. In secretary’s office, capitol, Santa Fé, N. M. Socorro, Grant, and Dofia Ana counties. Office of probate clerk, Socorro, Silver City, and Las Cruces, N. M. History of Arizona and New Mezico, San Francisco, 1888. 17th Ann. Report, 1896; Bulletin 30, Pt. 2; Handbook of American Indians, Washington, 1911. HENERAL STEPHEN W. KEARNY, commanding the Army of the West, invading New Mexican territory, was the first officer of the United States to declare to the people of New Mexico that their rights of person and property would be held inviolable. In making this statement he was carrying out the structions given to him by the president of the United States. eral Zachary Taylor had the same instructions and published in- Genand distributed a proclamation among the inhabitants south of the Rio Grande to the same effect. For nearly half a century the people of New Mexico endeavored, by petition, memorial, and through their delegates in congress, to compel the American congress to listen to the demands of justice respecting their rights of property. At the Kearny the two which close of hostilities with Mexico, two years after General had planted the American flag in the plaza at Santa Fé, governments entered into a treaty *°° by the provisions of it was most solemnly guaranteed that the people of New $°9 Compiled Laws of New Memico, 1897. Articles viii and ix of the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo provided: ‘‘Art. viii. In the said Territories, property of every kind, now belonging to Mexicans not established there, shall be inViolably respected. The present owners, the heirs of these, and all Mexicans who may hereafter acquire said property by contract, shall enjoy with respect to it, guarantees equally ample, as if the same belonged to citizens of the United States. Art. ix. The Preserve the character Mexicans who, in the Territories aforesaid, shall not of citizens of the Mexican Republic, conformably with What is Stipulated in the preceding article, shall be incorporated into the union of the United States, and in the meantime shall be maintained and pro- tected in the free enjoyment of their liberty and property.’’ |
