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Show THE SPANISH ARCHIVES OF NEW MEXICO THE SPANISH ARCHIVES MENDINUETA, PEDRO FERMIN. Santa Fe, May 4, 1775. Letter to the bishop of Durango relative to asylums for fugitives from justice. if MENDINUETA, PEDRO FERMIN, Santa Fe, May Te, 2070. Letter to the viceroy reporting adversely to the pretensions of Don Eusebio Duran y Chaves. 2f TAOS, INDIAN OF THE to June 11, 1778. PUEBLO. June 22, 1775 Proceedings and testimony in a prosecution of a Taos Indian charged with bestiality. Guilty; sentenced to 12 lashes for eight consecutive days. 10f BUCARELLI y URSUA. Mezico, 1775. Letter to the governor and captain-general ordering him to give Don Eusebio Duran y Chaves another position, one which he would be capable of filling, If BUCARELLI y URSUA. Mezico, October 11, 1775. Letter to the governor and captain-general relative to military matters and officers who go to the Indies with the view of promotion. 2f INDIANS, PUEBLO OF COCHIT£. No. 673. October 14, 1775. See Archive Sentence of condemnation of the two Indians, who were condemned to be hung and their bodies left hanging ‘‘ for a few days.’’ GARCIA, Bf SALVADOR. November o-19, 1775. Agreement with Gregorio Martin in the matter of a complaint against him on account of the son of the latter hav- ing raped Garcia’s daughter. SALAZAR, Petition CRISTOBAL. praying of November 9,17 79! for relief from dated September 20, 1770. debt; bankruptcy ; bond 4f MENDINUETA, PEDRO FERMIN. Santa Fe, November 24, 1775. Draft of a letter to the viceroy notifying him of the flight of Don Eusebio Duran y Chaves without permission. 694 GALLEGOS, Three 695 BERNARDO. March certificates of persons having BUCARELLI 257 6-11, 1776. claims against him. 4f OLONA, MIGUEL pz, vs. Don Miguel Morales. vember 26-March 26, May 2, 1776. Petition and proceedings 696 OF NEW MEXICO No- in suit relative to some sheep. 6f y URSUA. Meaico, December 25, 1776. Notice to the governor and captain-general of the arrival at Mexico of the Cavallero de Croix, as commander-in-chief of Sonora, Sinaloa, California, New Biscay, Texas, and New Mexico, and giving instructions to make reports to him hereafter. By virtue of the royal order of August 22, 1776, the northern and northwestern provinces of Mexico were formed with a new and distinct organization, called the Internal Provinces of New Spain. This organization included California. It conferred ample powers, civil, military and political, on the commandant-general. The archives of the former government also show that as early as 1786, the governor of California had authority from the commandant-general to make grants of land, limiting the number of sitios which should be granted. In 1792, California was annexed to the viceroyalty of Mexico and so continued until the Spanish authority ceased. United States vs. Peralta, 19 Howard, 347. The Cavallero de Croix was the first commandant-general. He petitioned the king to divide his territory, but no action was taken until 1786, when, by royal order, New Biscay and New Mexico were placed under a commandantinspector, and Coahuila and Texas under Don Juan Ugalde, the commandant-general having charge of Sonora and the Californias and exercising general supervision over the whole of the Provincias Internas. Prior to December 4, 1786, New Spain was divided into ten kingdoms or provinces, viz.: Kingdom of Mexico; New Galicia; New Leon; New Santander; Texas; Coahuila; New Biscay; Sonora and Sinaloa, New Mexico and Upper and Lower California. These ‘‘Kingdoms’’ were, at that time, divided into forty-two districts, called alcaldias mayores, which was a territorial division under a chief alcalde. New Mexico was never placed under an intendancy when |
