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Show ‘and José Gabriel Sanchez, MATTER, 1819. 1283 LUIS MARIA CABEZA pr BAGA. 1819. Costs in Royal Audiencia at Guadala jara in the matter of the sale of certain ranchos to the Indians of San Buenaventura de Cochiti. Rafael Cuentas. Detailed statement of costs incurred in the Royal Audiencia at Guadalajara by Don Luis Cabeza de Baca in a suit had with the Indians of Cochiti in relation to the sale of some ranches. 1284 LETTERS cundo (2) of June Melgares, one to 19, 1820, by Governor Aléjo Garcia Cénde, FaCom- Sanchez Ver- Valencia county. Not : pits Sd ~ PEPEAS ET EPIL er hes be he3g)ad et fer pe RES er 9+ gs ’pa te pe BY Bd a PS SS bo ees edTee Bt er ae el ete LEG, Mariano TARR) Alcalde. Aragon, by José Manuel eranted. Juan at Las fre » 1821. Nutrias, Cruz Baca, Alcalde. Facundo oe for land Melgares, rare ALARID. Petition 4 MARIA PEF gara, Alcalde. 1286 JOSE Governor. CABEZA pve BACA. 1821. In the matter of a grant of land asked for by him. cision of the Deputation of Durango De- giving him the tract Miguel Diego Garcia Cénde. called Las Vegas Grandes. de Zubiria. The early history of the Las Vegas Grant is given in a report of Surveyor-General Wi lliam Pelham, before whom the grant came for consideration n in in 1858, and who found, d, one at the time, that there were two claimants to the lan the heirs of Luis Maria Town of Las Vegas. On January Cabeza de Baca and the other the | 16, 1821, Luis Maria Cabeza de Baca, ee a As Fee ea a 4 Firnrien « Rr (eee ei: Co mF a. | « Pe Cea rant ed PS ¢ ta be BET te ee Pe a anf ear Bi Re ee SO aoe, Chaves fae} = Pa ee ie ES ooo eh + Fig.t's ee SEP Pi) 4 Rr ares LP i ererir ites Paredes +0 coe 9-8 E * es F ind 4 S$6.F es 4 6am ‘ Pee RSET ee teeter rededie ed ad tad | ropa rey Fe oe esPee a José 1821. Disposition of land in said settlement which had belonged to Salvador Chaves. It was given to Juan Bautista Chaves ere er PPP ie AP Pees PEPE * Lea bes ip ee pees Ce sedPLP Pe ¢-¢+-9 ae | ~ Leen Ate Pk Ld Ft SE Frees Pa Pea eee PEROTPSO FOr eae et yO: O48 0-05 tr g- 8 oat— Pa * ot Po ee | PasPk asa ae 5ae | rsre bs a. <b 7 Juan Petition for the said tract. Refused and recommended to go to Socorro. Allande, Governor. Josef Mariano de la Pefia, Alcalde. 1285 CEBOLLETA. 1287 LUIS MARIA others. 1282 MILITARY to the company, paying to the Royal Audiencia the costs in question. in petihis own name and that of seventeen male children, Durango, tioned the Provincial Deputation of the State of of New under whose jurisdiction, he avers, the Province for Mexico then was, for a tract of public land suitable the cultivation and pasture, called the Vegas Grandes, on In this Bado. El of jurisdiction the in river, Gallinas to petition he states that a like petition had been made and that, the authorities of the Province of New Mexico, the land was by a decree of the 18th of February, 1820, . 1817. the soldiers of the company at Santa Fe eight mules, which the governor asks the commandant general to charge «| as do other citizens of the Province. QUELITES. These costs were incurred in the suit with the Cochiti Indians referred to in archive 1283. The governor says that cash was so scarce that Baca had been unable to raise the amount of the costs in money (192 pesos 7 reales) and consequently had turned over to 1815. Letter in regard to the question raised in No. 1279. Letter of December 27, 1815, by Bernardo Bonavia, commandant general at Durango, to the acting governor of New Mexico, approving his decision in the matter of the controversy between the pueblo of Santa Clara and certain individuals of that town who had abandoned their tribal relations, but still desired to hold land within the pueblo grant. This is the same controversy referred to in archive 1279. _ Bonavia directs the acting governor to give the CanJuebes to understand that if they want to hold the lands in dispute, they must go back and become part of the pueblo community, but if they want to retain their Spanish citizenship they must buy the lands they need elsewhere, 1281 LOS of that tri- )a BONAVIA. the employes Poe ted ed BERNARDO costs due pretwee prised at it, as the alealde’s ignorance is notorious. 1280 to certain - follows the alcalde’s letter. It is a scathing rebuke of the latter’s interference in a matter which did not concern him. The governor remarks, however, that he is not sur- In relation bunal by Don Luis Maria Cabeza de Baca. pea... draft of the governor’s reply immediately he “$+¢Se des, ti die, Ak de oe, 4° @-¢-9 @ # ee 2 +e ee er ee im * ee Ce ee ee Peed ee ee tot he te4 eee a. eer te aed Peper, 7. eter 94 ’ SS * ie os a bit dat Bed Be SPA Be OSoeSel es Po a A Ab Se Ik Fe Fa Pee lonae The rough mandant General, the other to the Royal Audiencia of Guadalajara. 2 Evidently the alealde strongly favored the contention of the Canjuebes, and he pretty strongly intimates that the governor had overlooked the justice of their side of the case. 373 eo THE SPANISH ARCHIVES OF NEW MEXICO THE SPANISH ARCHIVES OF NEW MEXICO = 372 |