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Show 118 THE SPANISH ARCHIVES THESPANISH ARCHIVES OF NEW MEXICO make a satisfactory translation of them. The following will give some idea of the condition of the original: ‘‘And its boundaries are on the north it is bounded by the same Indians of the pueblo of Santo domino (Domingo?) and on the south it is bounded by house (this word casa has been altered from something else) lands of the said pueblo, and on the west it is bounded by the (some word or words probably omitted here) probios (no such word in Spanish) Indians. (7) _Deed made at Bernalillo on December 4, 1815, by José Riafio, a native of the pueblo of San Felipe, to José Miguel Garcia, for a piece of land at Angostura, which is 323 and two and one half fourth varas long, and 94 and one and one half fourths varas wide. The boundaries were, ‘‘on the north by lands of the pueblo of San Felipe, on the south by lands of the same pueblo, on the east by lands of the purchaser himself, and on the west by lands also of the same pueblo.’’ The a 2 FL aoe Padl are yi is made that the land was sold by the consent of the whole pueblo. (8) Statement by José Mariano de la Pena, chief alcalde of Alburquerque, dated August 13, 1819, to the effect that while acting under commission from Governor Facundo Melgares, in carrying out the orders of the royal audiencia of the district, dated March 27, 1818, the party named in the preceding writing having appeared before him ‘‘his sale,’’ ete., was returned to him. The reasons given for this action are the same as those set forth in the document designated as (2) herein, and it 1s stated that this present document is signed by Ignacio Maria Sanchez Vergara, the protector _of. Indians. The above statement is made by W. M. Tipton. * mo at ee ne oe a o - PSS Sil eee Ca ae te oe) ee a Me Pb Mk Oe Pn ee ee Pe Ca Ce 6 Ee BD eM a ee peer PP LP eel teal td el ead ee el Pe a Oot Pe ee ee ee hd one re oa 384 TORIBIO a Abe statement GURULE vs. CRISTOBAL GONZALES. Question of lands. ; Count y of Berna lillo. 1821. Before 90 aga Melgares, Governor. José Migue iE e; Feliz Pino; Manuel Trujillo; Anton l Aragon, io Trujillo; egorio Ortiz; Tomas Antonio Berce ra; Antonio Ruiz; Juan ‘illo: V j ~~ Trujillo; Vincente Ferrer Duran; Antonio 385 JUAN GARCIA. Before Don Before Plaintiff Torres; Bautista Facundo Antonio de Carnue. M No el 1821. oe eee 386 TOMAS ANTONIO GALL GOS. 1899. ee 119 Armendariz, Alcalde. Question of inheritance. claims lands. Baltazar Perea, Alealde; Marcial José Maria Gutierrez; Francisco Trujillo; Pedro Pino. 387 FRANCISCO GARCIA; DOMINGO GALLEGO, Primero; FRANCISCO JURADO; PASCUAL ARCHULETA; CRISTOBAL MARTIN; FRANCISCO GALLEGO; ANTONIO JOSE GARCIA; JULIAN GALLEGO; TOMAS MESTAS; MANUEL GALLEGO; RAMO GALLEGO; JUAN MADRIL; SALVADOR XARAMIO; MARCIAL ARCHULETA; DOMINGO GALLEGO, Segundo. Petition for lands. Year 1824. Before Don Bartolomé Baca, Governor. Petition granted and petitioners put in possession of lands Truxillo, Alealde. at Cafones de Reano by Francisco Rio Arriba county. Colonel Bartolomé Baca, litical chief of New Mexico, at one time governor or poand Don Antonio José Otero, appointed circuit judge by General S. W. Kearny, were among the first owners and settlers of the place known as Manzano, of which there were in all one hundred and sixty; the petition for the lands taken up by these was presented to the corporation or ayuntamiento of Tomé, September 22, 1829, and it is rather remarkable that no reference is made in any of the papers to the existence of the celebrated _apple trees of that place. The petition recites that ‘‘not having the deed of possession to the said town in which they have settled, and the site of said town being known to be owned by no one, we request your excellency to be pleased to grant us the possession thereof, giving us the land which we are now occupying; giving us as boundaries from north to south, from Torreon to the old Mission of Abé, and from east to west, from the Mesa de los Jumanos to the mountain; all of which is to be for pasture grounds and other common and other uses necesary for every all the solid basis of common inhabited by the same; Petition. OF NEW MEXICO purposes, cross roads town established upon and private property and requesting further, as a condition for any of the above mentioned individuals, or any others Lands in San to be admitted in the future without injury to the former, to the new town of Manzano, to acquire legal property therein, that he shall construct a regular terraced house PEDRO GALLE- of adobe in the plaza where the chapel is to be constructed, (for which permission has been granted us), and he shall |