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THE SPANISH ARCHIVES OF NEW MEXICO may adduce in support of their rights, for themselves and in the name of the said community, for I, for my part, repeat that I cannot gratify them by granting their petition, but I do exhort and command them, in the name of his majesty, as his majesty’s loyal subjects, which they have fully shown themselves to be, by their obedience and persistence In maintaining said place, that they give the com- munity to understand that they must make no change fur- ther than making said address to his excellency, the said viceroy, who, as prince and most sovereign lord and lieu- tenant of the king our lord, will endeavour to provide the relief they present themselves to ask. And in order that this may appear, I order that this decree be returned to pha ks ET ETU LEH them, with the said original petition. This I have ordered and signed in this town of El Paso, with the assistance of my secretary of government and war, on the said day, # . ’ month, and year, ut supra. "Don Dieco vg Vareas Zapata LusAN Ponce DE LEON ‘JUAN Parz Hurrapo ‘“Secretary of Government and War.”’ General de Vargas, in making this order, was governed by the instructions which by royal decree had been given to his predecessor, Governor and Captain-General Don Domingo Jironza Petriz de Cruzate, which were ¢complete, as appears in the commission to the latter very from the king, Carlos IT, as follows: Don Carlos, by the grace of God, king of Castile, of Aragon, of the two Sicilies. of J erusalem, of Portugal, of Navarre, of Granada, of Toledo, of Valencia, of Galicia, 0 Majorca, of Xaen, of the Algarbes, of Algecira, of Gibraltar, of the Canary Islands, of the East and West Indies, the islands and mainland of the sea and ocean, archduke of Austria, Tyrol and Barcelona, Sieur of Biscay and of Mo- lina, ete.: Considering that, in a general meeting held 02 pe 28th day of July of this year, in which mention in two i) Proceedings, was made of the supplies remitted by on Antonio de Otermin, whom T had appointed, in con wlrrence with my viceroy, as governor and captain-general of the Provinces of New Mexico, and the letters I have re celved from the site of E] Paraje Largo, on his return from the entrada he made into the said provinces, by order 0 tee croy, for the recovery of what had been lost, and the other letters sent from El Paso del Rio del Norte, and those , ¢ * of — a — , Pa a a a 4 Poa eh which, on this same subject, were written by Fray cisco de Ayeta, procurador of those places, all of which Frat weré considered in the said general meetings, ‘and the fact that THE SPANISH ARCHIVES OF NEW MEXICO 83 the said governor asked very urgently for leave from my viceroy, for the reason that he was sickly and disabled for the performance of the duties to which he was compelled to give personal attention, in order to proceed to the recovery of what had been lost and to the pacification of the natives remaining there, and for these operations it was necessary to have a person of high degree and esteem, and worthy of confidence, who will be able to command entire respect and obedience, and also, because at present all hopes have not been lost for achieving a recovery of the said province, by carrying into effect the dispositions which I shall give on receiving notice of its present condition; seeing that in your person, the Captain Domingo Jironza Petriz de Cruzate, are united the merits, qualities, and services required, having agreed with Don Tomas Antonio Lorenzo Manuel Manrique de la Cerda de Enriquez, Count of Paredes, Marqués de la Laguna, knight commander of the Moraleja, of the Order of Knighthood of Aleantara, member of my council, chamber and board of war of the Indies, my viceroy and lieutenant governor and captain general of the Provinces of New Spain, and president of my Royal Audience and Chancellorship, I have thought it proper to appoint you governor and captain general of the provinces of New Mexico, in the same manner as have been your predecessors, for the term of three years, more or less, at the will of the said, my viceroy, in the place of the said Don Antonio de Oter- min, so that as such governor you may rule and govern all the places, lands, and settlements at present existing said provinces, and those which hereafter you may procuring the increase as much in what you may as in what at present may be helping the progress places and settlements and their preservation; and native Indians therein settled and at peace in recover, conquer of these that the may be pro- tected, disposing and ordering all other matters in those provinces, and on the settlement of all the Spaniards who may be in said place, the same may receive a title from you, keeping the administration of affairs in noteworthy perSons in the same manner in which they filled said offices in the Villa of Santa Fe, assembling gatherings and settlements of the Indians who may go out on one or more 0c- casions as may be necessary in the most adequate places and without detriment to the other settlements of the Sumas and Mansos which were in those places before, as- Signing to them the lands which they may need and the a grounds and boundaries of each pueblo, ereentorernenen and to do the same to the town which you may colonize with Spaniards, which |
