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Show STL Seer saat Mien eas St 482 THE SPANISH ARCHIVES OF NEW MEXICO purports to this case these state- ments in regard to this paper may not be important, but in New Mexico, purporting were written by the same to have been made hand which wrote grant to Laguna, and are equally spurious.”’ The claim of a grant erants in 1689, this so-called based on this document ‘‘B’’ was recommended to Congress by the surveyor-general for confirmation on November 22, 1872, but Congress took no il B ks the claim February 2, it to Congress for confirmation. on the recommendation. In 1877, a was made for an area covering The claim was filed with the court of private land claims and in August, 1883, the case was tried and the claim rejected. Pueblo of San Cristobal. The Spanish document in this case is not genuine. There are no other papers except a translation into English of the spurious document. The pueblo was abandoned many Inasmuch as the United States attorney for the court of private land claims was convinced from the investigation he had made that the pueblo of Laguna was not founded until 1699— ten years after the date of the Pueblo of Zui. Indians ment was in question, he informed that he was prepared the attorney to prove not genuine. for the that that docu- After making an investigation the attorney for the Indians, becoming convinced that he could not establish the geunineness of the paper, abandoned the attempt tober, 1897. Under the decree of the court, it was surveyed for an area of a fraction more than 17,328 acres and patent issued in 1909. Pueblo of Santa Ana. _There is no Spanish document in this ease. The Indians, so they testified, had a ‘‘tradition’’ that they once had a document or grant, but it had become mislaid. The — diy bs gonial in 1869 and was surveyed in 1876 a traction over 25or 1983 17,360 acres. acres. It was patented Apr i , Pueblos of Zia, Santa Ana, and Jémez. This grant was made Jointly to the three pueblos by governor of New Mexico It was situated near Galisteo and was aban- doned some moved to a place above Santa time after the revolution of 1680. They the site of the present town of Cruz, near the present pueblo of San Juan. The one There are two Spanish papers in this case. The claim was approved by the dated 1689 is spurious. surveyor-general in 1879, but Congress never acted upon The surveyor-general believed that the sigthe claim. The claim was nature of Governor Cruzate was genuine. The never filed with the court of private land claims. grant was surveyed in 1880 for an area of 17,581 acres. to do so and proceeded upon an entirely different theory in the trial of the case. The court confirmed the grant in Oc- the Spanish years ago. Err are rere Ps et oe clea Samm SE] E No action was taken preliminary survey 382,849 acres. approved action. A preliminary survey was made in 1877 for an area of more than 125,000 acres. Many years later the claim was filed in the court of private land claims and confirmation was sought upon the same basis. muniment AAT RET AL 1) surveyor-general er ew a . arPart >PEPE re art rb} ee ee; Pe ave eeLL eee sisistcsi tes, they are true; as it is also true that all the Indian The 1874, and recommended in 1766. on of the present status of CREE LS er a ee a ~ GO HO 44-46-64 9-4 ae ad er s tat ect Pua FS PS I baaek A PA ad PA PP ‘‘In view The granting decree shows that the object of the grant was to provide the Indians with lands for ‘‘pasturing the stock and horses of the aforesaid three pueblos.’’ PEPE who ee a ane secretary Soe eee BGG of the GG bl al a the surname sign the alleged grant with the governor appears as ‘GurTaRA,’ while it is a well known fact that no person of that name filled that position at that or any other period in New Mexican history.’ nh spurious; THE SPANISH ARCHIVES OF NEW MEXICO 483 |