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Show . Ae a Ne lgtiat eet tie ae alee ACS ACL BPS eigeie RP GPG tahiti Te od ote Tass ACY Po iatPoe a a Be | BS Rr ste «ered fa” Pao os Pea she Yt YaMe beede PPPPe I eAMPS Fae od 6 al et et PL en er Ps es Pe PS 22 a 3 *.4 C4 ne oti Ae iacene ngage ere re Des al ed * et _ fl Sed PtDd et Piet fend el Delee ol ‘-+* el Pel & Cs 8 POP PPO e neOO Ie OE 2D: oat ed DE SL ee OL Os tz Pee. ee+ - el ee he a rd Sa = el ee ed Es et 7 PO Oe _ ee~—- a _ ee Si edied ~ Sot ee a “< ee Co dated ee A te ee a ¢-¢-% fF THESPANISH ARCHIVES OF NEW MEXICO attention to a certified copy of a deed which he presents for inspection, stating that the original thereof is in the government archives. He also refers to the grant under which Joseph de Quiros had held the lands in question, which grant he states was made to Quiros and his son-inlaw, Antonio Duran de Armijo. He refers also to a memorial which he presented to the Marquis of Penuela (a former governor of New Mexico) in regard to the Indians being obliged to pay him what they still owed on the land. The three documents referred to by Tenorio are parts of this archive. The first begins on page 1 of leaf 16. It is a copy of a deed, dated December 16, 1703, by Joseph de Quiros to Miguel Tenorio de Alba, and the correctness of the copy is certified to by Cristobal de Gongora, secretary of the town council of Santa Fe. This deed is for a portion of the land claimed by Quiros under the grant made by Governor Rodriguez. The land sold is described as consisting of three fanegas of corn-planting land, which, according to calculations based on data found in ‘‘Ordenanzas de Tierras y Aguas,’’ by Mariano Galvan, Paris, 1868, p. 164 (see also Hall’s Mexican Law, p. 82), would amount to about 26.45 acres. The boundaries are described as follows: ‘‘On one side, which is that of the north, by some hills, on the south by the river; on the east by San Juan bluff; and on the west by lands of Juan Trujillo.’” The consideration was 130 pesos. The second document cited by Tenorio begins on page 1 of leaf 14, of this archive. It consists of a petition by Antonio Duran de Armijo and J oseph de Quiros, directed to the governor and ecaptain-general of New Mexico, asking for a grant of a piece of cultivable land located between the San Juan road and the Jacona bluffs. The boundaries were: ‘‘On the north side, the hill as we go to the new town (Santa Cruz de la Cafiada) ; and on the South side the river which comes from Pojoaque; and the east side the San Juan road; and on the west side on the rocky bluffs (pefiascos) which look toward J acona.’’ petition was presented to Governor Pedro Rodriguez bero on September 10, 1701, and on that date he This Cu- made the grant and ordered the chief alealde of Santa Cruz, or his deputy, to place the grantees in possession of the land. On September 12, 1701, the chief alealde, Roque Madrid, gave the possession with the following boundaries: the the east side by a main road which goes to San Juan;‘‘On on west side by a precipitously crested red hill (wn DUKE OF ALBURQUERQUE Viceroy of Mexico |