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Show , a rat em) ee * ee v tess ot Bee me em ae en Naa bal ae ae ee ee oe ee ee or a ead ee es ea tien ee A ee Eel BNE nd ec" See bat ot lt oe ye "4 ae es THE SPANISH ARCHIVES OF NEW MEXICO THE SPANISH ARCHIVES OF NEW MEXICO absence of a royal or public notary, there being none in this Kingdom. ‘*To which I certify: ‘*BERNARDO ANTONIO BUSTAMANTE TAGLE, ‘* Acting Justice. ** Witnesses : ‘*IsIDRO SANCHEZ TAGLE. i eS 224 ‘* PEDRO TAFOYA, ‘* José JARAMILLO. **SANDIA ‘‘At the aforementioned place and Mission, on the said day, month and year, as directed, I, the Lieutenant General, Don Bernardo Antonio de Bustamante Tagle, proceeded to give royal and personal possession, accompanied by all the neighbors, and the first act being to give a name and vocation to the said new reduction (settlement) in order to perpetuate its memory, giving it the name of ‘Our Lady of Sorrow and Saint Anthony of Sandia,’ and being thus named, the recently converted Indians of the said nation being all together with their minister, the Reverend 225 which limits there are convenient pastures, timber, water and watering places, to support large and small cattle and horses. / All of which was given with free and general control to the said Moqui Indian converts, who are congregated as aforesaid, that they may enjoy it, themselves, their children, heirs and successors. And those who were present amounted to three hundred and fifty souls, great and small, comprising seventy families, who being all together, I granted, and published; and they heard the royal possession given in the name of his Majesty, Whom may God Preserve! which is a sufficient title for them, now and forever, to prevent interference at any time and against any person or persons who may trespass within the boundaries set forth of which they are in possession. ‘And in order that it may always so appear, I placed the same on record, Corporal Antonio Armenta and Juan Simon being instrumental witnesses. I signed with my attending witnesses, with whom I act as acting judge, in the Father Friar Juan José Hernandez, whom I took by the absence of a royal or public notary, there being none in this Kingdom within the limits prescribed by law; giving of these one to my Reverend Father Minister for the pious received merits of his ministry and to remain in the hands of Friar José Hernandez, and ernment on the day, month hand, and in the name of his Majesty (Whom may God Preserve!) walked with him over the land, they cried aloud, threw stones, pulled weeds, and in a loud voice exclaimed ‘Long live the King, Our Sovereign!’ several times; they whatever. measured the royal possession without any contradiction The leagues granted to a regular pueblo were and the lines being drawn toward the designed by the Most Excellent Viceroy and the ‘‘Brrnarpo christian charity, and the other the Reverend Father Minister with the other report to the govand year aforesaid. ANTTO BusTAMANTE ing 1n all to two hundred and forty varas; and in order to complete what was lacking on the western side, I thought it necessary to add as increase the leagues to the north and south equally, in order that the adjoining Spanish grantees should not be damaged; said two boundaries amounting to 7,380 Castillian varas, the league toward the west being The land between, within the said two bound- aries, being all adapted to the raising of wheat and the water being convenient to the surface of the ground. And in order to perpetuate their boundaries, I directed them to establish landmarks or mounds of mud and stones, of the height of a man, with wooden crosses on their summits. The boundaries being, on the north, an old tower opposite the point of a canyon commonly called ‘Del Agua’ and on the south the Maygua Hill, opposite the spring of the Car- risito, and on the east the main ridge called Sandia, within TAGLE. ‘¢ Acting Justice. west to the Rio del Norte, which is the boundary, there were only two lines of fifty and twenty Castillian varas each, amount- 4,760 less. purposes ‘Witnesses : ** PEDRO TAFOYA, ‘“YsipRO SANCHEZ TAGLE. May 24: 1762." An order was issued by the governor and captain-general, commanding that two days in the week be set apart for the manufacture of adobes and to cut the necessary timber for the completion of their houses; no Indian being allowed to leave the pueblo, except to guard the stock or for the cultivation of the soil, until the pueblo is constructed and built under the direction of the Reverend Father Mission- ary. MARTINEZ, dro Vigil. SALVADOR, Thomas Madrid and Pe- Memico, February 29, 1748. Petition asking that they be allowed 400 pesos each in to return to New Mexico. ag |