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Show 1 rsPE ERT ‘ aes STR tee oP reel Ph ;Ft ee teed a 3 - “se Sata tats ee eee tatatetci net Sareea 7s e ¢ PAIL - cae, at PX eet hd ete eeese asa a sent, itthei hd whoa pea BYtendbeessSh haPhitee 2¢ Li Sok . aero* eeF ‘Stel od Seed. aided+ ieee 417 al PWhaa BY ae Spanish citizens relative to a ranch claimed by the Spaniards lying between the two Pueblos. many that complaint some before years that Spaniards had iP * A The Indians of Santa Clara and San Ildefonso presented a petition to the governor of New Mexico, complaining established a ranch between the two pueblos on the western side of the Rio del Norte; and had trespassed upon their lands; had been made to the governor’s prede- cessors, but without avail; that the pueblo of Santa Clara had never had its league measured; that Fr. Sebastian: Anton, then deceased, a former minister of that mission, having found in the possession of Juan Pubijua, a Santa Clara Indian, an old document which cleared up the whole from a 7. citizen; . OF 0 ae + o8 sd od edfe eee A FPR rere. SI = er rer re Pred omLod bof bets rarereree ee Co Perk sd RIESE PE IE eSESS CHa 99rd.9-8-4 : 3fi es eee 8-8 @re Pe Ser SeOit EPti ere tot rapes 242885: Si back that if the Indians had any right or request to make invited his they should make it in a formal manner, they the return compel should he that order in it to attention not of the paper to them, and in case the paper should south be found, they asked that the league be measured league be from the pueblo of Santa Clara, and another the Ildefonso for measured north from the pueblo of San intervening space purpose of ascertaining whether in the conclusion they there was room for a Spanish ranch. In believed to asked the governor to decide the matter as he Carlos Ferbe just and also to approve their selection of nandez LEP the pueblo as a Spanish Os. PhP hs living away returned that, having then learned that when the governor brought it the paper to them he said to the persons who as their attorney in the case. oma Pt POPE fr Pag Pd Pk ee ee ee ee eee ae ee ee eh Ph tars a) Bautista This petition was presented to Governor Juan the selection of de Anza, at Santa Fe, May 6, 1786, and alcalde of La Fernandez was approved and directed the company with in Redondo, Campo José Don Cafiada, governors and prinFernandez and in the presence of the of the ranch occupants the and pueblos, two the cipales of cord, rea ~9 $= a waxed in question, to proceed to measure with south from the one hundred varas in length, one league Clara; and the same cross in the old cemetery at Santa the one at San Ildedistance north from a like point in permaplacing at the termination of the two lines a * +? it pnd ae Pe td Pe ee fonso, of stone and mortar, nent landmarks, which, for the lack stakes driven into were to consist of inclosures of cedar a hte ie el rd i EP cheat eed tal eel ial dad GF . EG ind ae el Oe oe F~O~e EL OF OF OPT + ** a FS a Ee Ar a) ns LJ a epee ee oe eee was menses f | LPM matter, and the contents of which were entirely favorable sent to the Indians, delivered the same to them; that they it to the governor, who, after having examined it, returned who it to them, and they gave it back to Juan Pubijua, a Lad THE SPANISH ARCHIVES OF NEW MEXICO — MST |
