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Show re meters, consequently There were present on this day, ae political chief of the Brazos : 0 ae ule Don and to the Juan in nineeast of José district of the eae Brevet Captain Abraham Buford, commander oe H, det t).-5. Dragoons, and Colonel Charles eb hen aide-de-camp to James §. Calhou n, governor ew Mexico. General Juan Maria Ponce de Leon was ; 0 present. Important settlements in this locality at this ae were Mesilla, Amoles, Paso del Norte Seneca, Ysleta ona and San. Elezario. At the time that Miranda oe ee was In the State of Chihuahua, that portion a. oe acquired by the United States under the ot urchase. There were about 1,500 people at Sila at the time. Don José Joaqui n de Herrera was president and Don Mexico at the time. 630 TOWN OF MORA. Distributi File No os 631 MIGUEL Grant. Law of Miata. Mari arlano Otero, secretary of state of ; Grant to José Manuel Cordova, q. v. MASCARENAS. 1844. Valles April Wa 30, 1842 meadow for the for drippage and a common road, and the free. The site exits benefit of all, with its entrances and two thousand varas of the town of San Antono contains d and fifty varas hundre one and south, to north from for the benefit of from east to west, leaving the meadow On and exits. es entranc ng followi the all settlers, with the south the on ; hes Cumanc the of the north the cafion . and de Santa Getrudis pee dag 13-15. de lo de Mora. Tomas Ortiz, in the direction of the Cebolla de Las Casas, the land suitable to Thereupon I proceeded to distribute east to west, st and drawing the line from Rio cultivation, the south side of the valley of Santa Gertrudes, there d varas of land, were measured four thousand one hundre lo, there i Tulquil of on directi the in north, the and on varas of land, one thousand seven hundred measured which were hey 1849. of land. oe San edge ured two distributed oe are arranged on the ee ae in the order 1n ust. valley ent day we proceeded to the drew the line from the Antonio, and being there, we 8 west, another batt of the Cienega towards the ; omer the list fp and distributed according to of land in the “ ey ; thousand eight hundred varas the Laguntta; an so five hundred and sixty varas at e the town, towar opposit land of varas fifty and hundred by the aforemenappear will as , thereof the southwest Fal r Fhe a xf ered Pi J Ld 7°28 3° 8 § eos ad ees c. PEPE PP eee Ld ee Pie oe Foe APs * 4 Aad pe ee ee oe raee Pa eeee eee ee ee ok a Pad STEEP ed rer mrs as # ihe 924994 te was marked Nation, and of this municipality, the town-si being two @ 4-8-9 HRS 9 FEA ree> eg ~~ ine eoresesese ie Be.a 5 Gertrudes out in both valleys, the one at Santa and one hundred and hundred varas from north to south, thirty varas outside fifty varas from east to west, leaving runs, Pad the that the distance now es “Valle river de San Antonio,’’ and in the name eeFAM ne i the upper one of the Mexican the the same parallel is two hundred ne and line Oe which there also, the lower valley was Gertrudes’’ ee eo PP. ees ee rte els ee ne ee oe Ce cs ee = et ee oe et Dt Ce et Lee Par area 2% = il Co ba °7¢ Se “~ 7 oe en in a Te. e+ hese het al ed fat * * @ re mt a +, 8.4% ee} a te ee dede ee te ee te (Pt ee e es Cee ee eed [ed *-7# CT | a Pe ae from called de Santa ‘‘Valle intersects the southern it being understood point seventy-six citizens, being ete — rande del Norte) Lexico, this one * Mexicans ekee | ew e RL eee to induce Tomas Grant. Valles de Santa Getrudis de lo de Mora. Duran. io Mauric . Ortiz, Alealde hundred On the 20th of October, one thousand eight utional and thirty-five, I, Manuel Antonio Sanchez, constit Las Trampas, justice of the jurisdiction of San José de by appointwith my attending witnesses, with whom T act of Don Aldecree r superio the with ance compli in ment, the 28th dated ry, Territo the of chief l politica bino Perez, place the to ded procee I past, last ber day of Septem under my called Lo de Mora, within the jurisdiction this public land, charge, for the purpose of distributing r decree, and as is provided in the aforementioned superio amounting to being there, and the settlers interested, aero Se ee _ rom CRMC of Mexico 632 MIGUEL MASCARENAS. ee eee oe Sy ty ed bi eal eeee ea Sd a ea eee -€ 4.4 ee te Pe Ae eee el ee Pee ee ae oe ed ee ee missioner-general in New Mexico to locate and colonize lands south of the Rio Grande. As such he succeeded the Fr. Ramon Ortiz of El Paso. Miranda delivered possession of the lands to the colony at Mesilla. At the time of the making of the grant to the settlers, there were present, among others Domingo Cubero, José Manuel Sanchez Baca Cesario Duane, zi ne Francisco Rojas, Valentin "Maese, MauAo oe coe Moreno, Vincente Lucero, and _ On April 24, 1851, the dividing line betwee n New Mexa and Mexico — 32 degrees and 22 minutes ps : eee as being ‘the point at which north latisaid river rage 173 ETE oe SS A Ce ee Ae 4 #. @-O-4 a Petal” ee Bl ee ee ee ee a a Pe. Ff a , April J, 1839, to October, 1843. After the occupa the Territory by the Americans in 1846 he declin tion of ed ing an American citizen and in 1853 was appoin becomted com- : TALL CO THE SPANISH ARCHIVES OF NEW MEXI THE SPANISH ARCHIVES OF NEW MEXI CO AS | ee ee ee ee ee ee eeelee ee Pp et ee td eehel Pe (ee ed oh a ee ee el el te pe *.#@ ’ ee Pe e.# Ol dl ek Sl el et Jed pel Deal fal ed Pal a ek 172 |