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Show ein ie ibd inte le Jeg BPC yest ty RPL 1.4 e etA tetigt aROSA tiet Pte tin t 28 rene ROR iat eit PLAY: Mee ark RSA TE A ae ignate ee ee “a4 pte te te titacasee a: a tiie THE SPANISH ARCHIVES OF NEW MEXICO creston colorado) ; on the north side by the hills; and on the south side by the river which comes down from the pueblo of Nambé. Immediately after this act of possession, in a differen t handwriting from any in the muniments, is the following: ‘‘I transfer this grant to Francisco Canjuebe (Francisco Joseph Casados being witness) and he agrees to pay me at harvest time.’’ There is no signature. The third document referred to by Tenorio is leaf 13 of this archive. It is what he terms a memorial. In it he sets forth that he had sold to the Indians of Pojoaque about three fanegas of corn planting land, for the same price for which he had bought it — 130 pesos, and that after the lapse of two years they were still in arrears on the payment. He asks that they be compelled to pay him what they owed him. In a marginal note dated April 10, 1712, the Marquis of Pefiuela, then governor of New Mexico, to whom the memorial was directed, told Tenorio to apply to the chief alealde of Santa Cruz, or his deputy, and ordered the latter to compel the Indians to pay the debt or to cease using the land, which upon the re-payment to the Indians of what they had advanced on it might be sold by its owner to whomsoever he saw fit. Tenorio’s statement of June 19, 1715, when presented to Rael de Aguilar, was accompanied by the titles to the land and other documentary evidence, as is shown by a marginal note on the first page of leaf 9. After Tenorio’s statement the next document, in chronological order, is a petition by Juan de Atienza, attorney for the Indians, calling attention to the proceedings had in the time of Governor Juan Ignacio Flores Mogollon, and asks that they be examined, and that justice be done to the Indians. This petition was presented to Felix Martinez, governor ie, A re ri 7 sf CJ ¢-#-t—@% -@ eS { PYMZ J 4 _ é La i . gt ~ a * 8 te. i Po . eee ~ i be ‘ FtPe ol A a . * CEO rd ee ee ee ee De: Pe hf et ef ot * Ys? ee a Se e AE $-4-+- 6 %-¢-# fad ll ee ete ee 7 ao Sed ee OE el OOOO # * Sif a ee P=, he ble hehe et hee 7 ST * G F eh oes © el SF oh ced . * at a ta al Da al ee + Ce FP PS OCOD et ad net el ot ded os of New ee oe eePe 9 Mexico, and on April 30, 1716, he issued an order in which he states that as Alonso [Alfonso] Rael de Aguilar had acted in connection with such proceedings he was directed to present them to the governor for the latter’s examination and decision. Near the bottom of the second page of leaf 16, following the certified copy of the deed from Joseph de Quiros to Miguel Tenorio de Alba, is Rael de Aguilar’s statement that the proceedings had not been coneluded on ac- count of the absence from Santa Fe of Juan de Atienza, and because Rael de Aguilar’s commission had expired |
