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Show 92 REPORT OF THE COMMISBIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. for this place, and he being in the h o ~ ~osfe F ield Mnrshal Baninguas Mendoza, he was overtaken by the said Indian, and being brought into my presence I ordered that under oath he declare what iis his name and whether he is disposed to confess the trnth in ao far as he might know and might be interrogated. Qneatianed wbat is his name, where he is a native of, what is his age and his oaeupation, and whether he knowe how Znni is, he atated that his name isBartolome de Ojeda and that he is s native of the Province of New Mexico, at the pueblo of Zio, and must hn twentv-one or twentr-tao veara of aee. a, little more or leas, and th& he has not had anpother occupation than the pradiOe of agriculture, andthat he knows how Znni is because he was an apostate in that king.do m,. and this he answers. Questioned wbat are the boundaries which Znni is known to have on account of the Crapsit has on the Rio Teguello, and whether the pueblo reoogniees ss it8 own, because of havin.c. cron. s or beoause of choice. and whether the Indians will azain v rornntit anorher iufnmy (tom) other priests, like the ow they commitred upon the ruk todiau priest (torn),tiro other priest whom thos killod by shooting, and the deponeut snswer6 no, that dthough it Gae true that all the pn&los hadiommitted violence (torn) priests of the ohurah and that when the war was in Zirr all the Indiana were there, but that with what had happened to them last year he judged it was impos-sible that they fail to give obedience; wherefore t.here were granted by his excel-lency the governor and saptain-general, Don Domingo J i r o n ~ aP et.ros de Cruzate, the boundaries that I here state, on the north one leagoe on the east one leagoe and on the west one league and on the south one league, and these being measured from the four corners of the pueblo. And this his excellency provided, ordered, and signed hefora me, the preeent secretary of state and wm, to which I certify. DOMINGOJ IRONZPEAT ROZD B CRUZATE. Before me, PEDROL ADROND E GUITAR*, Gacretary of State and War. SURVEYOR-GENERALO'PSP IOE. Sania Fe, N. Ma., Deembe? 31, 1878. The foregoing is e oorrect translation made by me from the original grant in Spanish on file in this office, in Private Land Claim V, in the name of the India13 pueblo of Zuni. Dnv. J. MILLER, Dansiatov. INDIAN PUEBLO OP ZUNI. INDIANBO B THE PUEBLO OF ZUNI a. I Private Land Claim V. Tan UXITED BTATES. Before the United States surveyor-general for the district of New Mexico, in the matter of the investigation of the claim of the Indians of the pneblo of Zuni to a tract of land in Valeocis County, in the Territorj of New Mexico, hail under the authority of the eighth seation of the act of Congress approved July 22,1854, and the tr&at,y of Gnedalupe Hidalgo. The originel title papers, oonsiating of the grant made September 25,1689, by Domingo Jironsa Petroz de Crazate, governor and captain-general of the provinceof NewMexioo, to the Indians of the pueblo of Zuni, was filedin this office Joly 3, 1878, far them, by B. M. 'Chomss, United States agent for the Pueblo Iudia~ra. These Indians elaim the land given them under the said grant of 1689, and it i8 saidstill oontinue to onltivate portions of the tract, though the pneMo or town referred to in the coxloession wsa 3handonsd many yearn ago, theinhabitants remov-ing to their present re~idence,k nown as Zuni Nuevo or New Zuni, siteate between 3 and 4 miles to the northwest. The pneblo of Zuni is referred to in the report of James 8. Calhaun, then Indian agent, to the Commiseioner of Indian Affaire, ander date of October4,1849, and which is referredto inletter of August 21,1864, of instruc-tions to the anrveyor-genornl of Nev Mexico from the Commissioner of the General Land Office. |