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Show 222 THE SPANISH ARCHIVES OF NEW MEXICO certain information concerning said conquered Indians, which are distributed among several pueblos of this Kingdom asking that a pueblo may be established for them, in va which the aforementioned Moqui nation may construct their houses and form a settlement: “Therefore, and in order that the foregoing decree of the Most Excellent Viceroy and the petition of the aforesaid Very Reverend Father Delegate Commissary may be carried into effect, I hereby give such ample and sufficient authority as is required in such cases to the LieutenantGeneral Don Bernardo de Bustamante to proceed to the he bes ee # a. fcoi 7 ae oo a ee J eret rs eyes, Se es ee - at ee a oe ee ee del aforemention site of Sandia, ed with ten soldiers, and with the co-operation of the aforementioned Very Reverend Del- egate Commissary, to personally examine; calculate and réconnoiter the aforesaid site, and distribute the lands, waters, pastures and watering places, sufficient for a regular Indian pueblo, as required by the royal orders concerning the matter, setting forth the boundaries thereof. And the said Lieutenant-general shall also proceed to give authentic, royal and personal possession to the Very Reverend Father Missionary who may be assigned by his Prelate to the new Mission, having given the lands to the conquered Indians of In case any dispute the said nation as before mentioned. or objection is raised by any person or persons claiming title to said lands, he will report the same to this govern- ment in order that such legal steps may be taken in the premises as are necessary. And having reported his doIngs In the premises immediately following this decree, the said Lieutenant general will make a correct copy thereof, which he will deliver to the said Very Reverend Delegate Commisary, returning the original to this government, in order that it may always appear. Furthermore, it being necessary to appoint a judge to administer justice in said settlement, to protect the Indians, hearing their cases, and giving them such legal remedies as they may require; hereby declare said Pueblo of Sandia for the present to I be under the Jurisdiction of the Villa of San Felipe de Alburquerque, in order that the Lieutenant thereof or his lieutenant, shall strictly comply with the duties herein set forth; the senior justices will cause the conquered Moqui Indians who may be within their respective jurisdict ions to attach themselves with all possible despatch to the afore- said Pueblo of Sandia, to be established, the construction of which will be commenced of the present year, 1748. during the early part of May, ‘I have so provided, ordered and signed, with my at- 223 THE SPANISH ARCHIVES OF NEW MEXICO tending witnesses, with whom I act, in the absence of a public or royal notary, there being none in this Kingdom. JOAQUIN CODALLOS Y RABAL. To which I certify: ‘¢Witnesses: José JACOBO DE BoANAS. ‘* MIGUEL ALIRE. “J the Lieutenant-General, Don Bernardo de Bustamante Tagle, commissioned to give the royal possession granted and conferred by the Sargento mayor, Don Joachin Codallos y Rabal, governor and captain-general of this kingdom of New Mexico, in order to give possession to the Reverend Father Preacher Friar Juan José Hernandez, the minister assigned by patent of his reverend prelate, and to the Indians of the Moqui nation who are assembled for the purpose of re-establishing said pueblo, and for the better security and advancement of the same, I caused to appear before me the citizens who reside near or more contiguous to said pueblo on the other side of the Rio del Norte eat the west, to wit: Antonio de Salazar, Jose Jaramillo an Salvador Jaramillo, to whom, being in my presence, I made known the commission I held to grant the royal possession which I am directed to give to the aforesaid children of Sandia and their minister, and making them also sn stand that they are exonerated from giving the mele the Indians on the west, according to the royal mandate, which provides for one league toward each of the pe fee dinal points, which will be increased in another a asked ia 10 a oq but they were to consent that at all times the sal Indians of this new settlement (on account of the many risks their stock was subjected to on this side) eould ea over and pasture on the lands of the said Spanish oe Te o bors, whom, before witnesses of unexceptional once and oftener, if they consented or not, ned consented to the request of the aforesaid Indians an Father Missionary. ae os jointly and severally wm ‘Whereupon ae . would and did give free and ample permission, eae forever, to cross over and pasture/their, stock, bin peo obliging themselves, their children, heirs, jigoaapstaes not to impose any impediment whatever; on : e ayes : hes they urged the aforesaid Indians to do so wit a Bid causing damage; they so promised and state : would fulfill their promise without dispute or ‘ese P ceedings now or in the future. _ and for ‘*In testimony whereof, they signe d thei, r names ice, 1n the those who could not sign, I signed as acti ng just |