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Show eae pes o oth ry 7 Hd ed)Pe Ce en, e e tb eee =| On May 6, 1815, Governor Maynez issued the following decree: . By no means do I wish any wrong to the Indians of a0s or to the citizen s. My foreg oing decree of the fifteenth of last April can not be chang ed, because it is just it is suffic and well founded; iently ample for the alcalde and the Rev. Father Missionary to average things so as to leave them by compromise in the Arroyo Hondo will be settled permanent peace; and by farmers, if it ean be done witho ut prejudice to third parties . ’’ on May 20, 1815, the alealde, Pedro Martin, and the missionary priest, Fr. Benito Pereyro, made report to the governor of what they had done in trying to bring about oe between the Spaniards and the Indians and also made certain recommenda tions in the matter. They say that they urged the Spaniards to give the Indians fifty done to the citizens applies i land and two villages containing about the Spaniards should be deprived bs in a position of so Use? He 2-4 ie te Ee ot, A PE in ‘iiGsiee that if f their Seas property they UiAt ogee ‘« lan- ae some act of desperaaye im woe poets ca. oe 99. 1815, and Me ng decrees of the 15th of ese be ae a ae Be e odently accounts for one of Bay chars final decree, which bears Cate ° . = ilining the ee case be better founded in Ma ve alcalde,af ‘d en the to expressi more nor ti ise ty ; an 4if thecane and tranquili jus a to comprom mage ate Boe J ine pariah minister and Don pacthomt in permanent gtnony foe rb p ? eke Pid RP redePeateeeFarr eer We} Or neee , tek aad 3 Pa pe ae aaa FPiE oe ies 4ee) Pa PLN Ba oer POLS EPL AL OF, CPF EPe ey ed alto a bere eee Dee Be ee a to rs any at Giey: call enters would be an annulment of their forefathers in the name of the Hae they had purxhibit documents and deeds showing ‘ha he Indians not eee the lands, and that ee ee a but kindly the s making on ly a permitted the Spaniard in orderof totheget their ssistance ET 1n a0 ding the pueblo against the ae a ee These are not the only argument.s are probably the most important i , Ad tracts of families with rrender of this church built by the Spaniards; that the surté te be bt te pe be Lio 900 pa Se 3 Be Bieter “t- e~@ niards. pom ae 15, 1815, is directed : Cf a Ths and is signed by José Romero, who seating ; that the damage FV SES Eee AES 8 the league. that the appointed the defender of the cit desl bri eps ri F oP ees ee rt rere Pn Pelee Fee re eddOh See ot not injure either the Indians or the Span- lards, because it was more than 10,000 varas distant from had it not been tes to what they were losing. conclusion he says that the settl ement of the Arroyo ondo would Bia ae — — Mee ketorethis they bt . merits; its e the governor should determin ¥ transmit the papers with the statement ma the case, s Sebastian Martin; that these Martin lands would provide a place for the Spaniards where they could be given other lands equivalent are | bastian Marti they say that they would eelesi it was the alealde’s opinion that the Indians lose what they had bought to the prejudice of the should heirs of 7 eeepc LE IOI C I TE IT 4 SL SEL that if the Spanish governor should decide that the citizens were to lose their ranches which they had bought in good faith, those lands which the Lev peeene PRIGOOLE L I ohree . five ; that the Indian governor and his interpreterof fortyagreed to it, but when they laid the matter before the Indians, the latter not only refused the proposition, but abused them ; ; Pa Pea a edreese should give them cattle and horses to the number ue hal daha Also the alcalde says that he proposed to the Indians that they should allow the Spaniards to retain their houses and ranches, and in consideration of that the Spaniard s ons - eae os cultivate it at all, and rent porti eo ce ae ering that the latter, being the conqu * izens representing the grants included within the league agreed that the boundaries should remain at the customary places with the obligation of the pastures being common. PASPEL against the warlike Cumanches; that in addition to this, by a decree dated May 1, 1793, Governor Fernando de la Concha ordered that the league be measured, and the cit- acm a state that in their opinion the Se rt latter sat the but s, Indian the to be given to t 8 soasaelng sh give and ts vemen impro sh the Spani ne in the psi which the Indians had purchased Mar . 4 : nae tian Sebas in Capta to merly belonged in the Province, Indians have the best land PL them with great kindness, in order to have their assistance J 3 ~ hae © eir league, ete. ae ae Rae's Pe Soe eel el ae 8 eee Indians of Taos gathered the citizens together and treated ee left at their customary posal and demande et to him that when the Cumanches were on the war-path, the rs: of the aera horses and cattle in consideration 8 es ee | rile el iz pl eae there were three villages with about 190 families, and also a church, which the citizens had built. 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