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Show 1 or Stat See oe Cire ge fee eT am ree SS LEage te DYa St te peat eet ve be ® * 7 hie Se LiFetre eesVinee tee eer se fio a Loe . eRPre re | be e Te _ . . ee "gue . m " Se SORVee) TE ee pse e | LZ ny se e YE Te < SSG eek TE* ae B ORE r SERGE Teak i Tee, *3—@% + sretie Ye eee eke but oy ope okys oy Cok Dy Sy OF tp Re ee eee ee ol tS PATE te Wak te te COME TE a eee ae aS e ys C Pe Boe Be vs @ 2 tsa Laperea? me —— cr FEF e Pasig ieee Aa eS pe 2 iAP 481 Ft mony of the Indians, taken before the surveyor-general in 1856, shows that the grant had been deposited in the archives of the Territory, and that a man mamed Miguel An- Pleiadian THE SPANISH ARCHIVES OF NEW MEXICO Cie J LSaee o ee Pus ad ne re : tonio Lobato had told the Indians that not long before he had the grant in his hands; that it was in the possession of a man at Polaverda or Socorro, ete. The veyed in 1859 for a fraction over 110,080 grant was suracres, and was patented in 1864. Pueblo of Nambé. There is no Spanish document in this case. The Indians testified before the surveyor-general, September 29, 1856, that the grant was delivered to the acting governor of the Territory in connection with a case in which some Mexican was confirmed in 1858, surveyed in 1859 for a fraction over cK 13,586 acres and resurveyed in 1903 for a little over 13,590 Res i eS 6 Fe 5 f aePeby)fsEeePitale pate Soteseteti pe 5.be be me he citizens were alleged to have trespassed upon the lands of the Indians and was never thereafter seen or heard of. It dele 9 acres, and was patented in 1864. Pueblo of Laguna. The two Spanish documents in this case (A and B) are Py both dated 1689 and are spurious. One reason for the belief that document ‘‘B’’ is not genuine is that on its fourth page is a disconnected, ram- Congress, in Washington City, are clearly shown to be P Pe Pee et a - taining a number of statements couched in precisely the same words as those found in the book entitled Ojeada sobre Nuevo Mejico, Antonio Barreyro, op. cit. In fact, the first four words on page 4 of document ‘‘B’’ are those which form the name of the book — ‘‘Ojeada sobre Nuevo Mejico,’’ which means ‘‘Glance over New Mexico.”’ ‘‘The contents of this fourth page of document ‘B,’ ”’ says Mr. Tipton, ‘‘has nothing to do with a grant to the pueblo of Laguna; the handwriting establishes the fact that it was written by the same person who wrote the so-called grant of 1689; its contents shows that it contains statements taken bodily from a book published in 1832; the signatures of the governor, his secretary and the Indian witness, Bartolome Ojeda, are in the same handwriting; the signature of the governor, when compared with his signatures on Archive 1 and Archive 1124, in the U. S. Surveyor-General’s Office, at Santa Fe, and with others on numerous documents formerly in the Territorial Library at Santa Fe and now in the Library of ree bss apg bs Gf Pr el) Perera) connected with the early history of New Mexico, written in the same hand as the three preceding pages and con- CA | bling statement in regard to matters more or less intimately . 7 Td ee ae ee aa perpet g ae— a es ee J CERI Te * ISR Pie Pend be Dt At had tae = eee ba pa enon ke Cie oe ee ea ore et ee ee ee pe ee Leas CJ Pe) LPP ere q ets tt tak eo tek Pe Pd Se ps pe oe Pk Po, aiFe > aati979 el * ae Pe Pe eee ed sa SPond 85 Stt $28.1, oe tahatne hte intntiatatiey tedeietialed tat abt eek tiie Raia tol a ® a all). he | i, dCd000 (OC tae ey ania Nii ea es |