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331 appendix 2 Documents Relating to the New Mexico Pueblo League Date Source Summary 1687 Borah, Justice by Insurance, 136 The fondo legal (minimum endowment of land for an Indian village) in central New Spain was 600 varas in four directions measured from the outermost house in the town (cedula of 4 June 1687). Spaniards complained that Indians extended their boundaries by building new houses in the fields, so a new cedula established the fondo legal as 600 varas measured from the church in the center of the town (cedula of 12 July 1695). 1693 Kessell and Hendricks, By Force of Arms, 386 When Vargas found La Ciénega Pueblo abandoned he ordered that “should some Keres Indians return to settle there, they will be limited to 500 varas from the door of the church in the four directions and no more.” 1697 Kessell, Hendricks, Dodge, and Miller, That Disturbances Cease, 85 Lázaro de Mizquía’s proposals to reorganize New Mexico (which were not adopted) “provide [that] each pueblo will be given one league in length.” 1704 SANM I:78 Petition for lands adjacent to San Felipe. Protector of Indians Alfonso Rael de Aguilar objects to the petition, referring to the Pueblo league as “granted by royal law to the Pueblo Indians.” 1704 SANM I:1339 Ignacio Roybal v. San Ildefonso. Rael de Aguilar argues that San Ildefonso is entitled to four square leagues, and acting Governor Páez Hurtado orders Alcalde Cristóbal Arellano to measure a league in each direction from the center of the pueblo. 1716 SANM I:500 Petition by Antonio Montoya for the sobras (excess lands) between the pueblos of Santo Domingo and San Felipe. Alcalde Manuel Baca reported that the Indians wanted their league measured so they would know what belonged to them. 1722 SANM I:1343 Proceedings concerning land between Santo Domingo and Cochiti. Rael de Aguilar (no longer serving as protector of Indians) measures 5,000 varas from the cemeteries of the church of each pueblo. 1724 SANM I:1344 Land between Santa Clara and San Ildefonso. Juan Páez Hurtado investigates claim of Mateo Trujillo. APPENDIX 2 332 Table continued Date Source Summary 1734 SANM I:1345 Baltazar Romero petitions to sell Spanish lands in the Bernalillo area to Santa Ana Pueblo; Governor Cruzat y Góngora denies the request, maintaining that lands should be sold to Hispanos, not Indians. 1736 SANM I:1039 José de Riaño asks for measurement of the lands of Santa Clara and San Ildefonso so he can see where his lands between the two pueblos are. Governor Cruzat y Góngora appoints Juan Páez Hurtado to measure the two leagues. Although these measurements from the center of the pueblo to the Riaño land fall short of a full league, Páez Hurtado claims that Riaño has 84 varas between the pueblos. 1744 SANM I:213 Roque Canjuebes receives a grant from Spanish authorities of land within the Santa Clara Pueblo league, without objection from pueblo officials, according to Alcalde Francisco Ortiz (see 1815 for appeal). 1748 SANM I:531 Fray Juan Miguel Menchero asks Governor Codallos y Rabal to authorize property confiscated from Pueblo Indians charged with a crime to be paid to him so he can improve the church at Sandia and thereby settle the Hopis there, who are scattered among the different pueblos. 1748 SANM I:848; SANM I:347 Sandia grant is made by Governor Codallos y Rabal of abandoned pueblo of Sandia to Indians living at Hopi. Governor orders Alcalde Bustamante Tagle to examine the site and allot “the lands, waters, pastures, and watering places which pertain to a formal pueblo of Indians.” Litigation subsequently ensues in the Spanish and Mexican periods over the northern and southern boundaries (SANM 1:1375) and in the American period over the eastern boundary Sandia Peak. 1754 Abiquiu grant, PLC 52 38/884 Vélez Cachupín makes grant to Genízaro Pueblo of Abiquiu citing Recopilación 6-3-8. The governor himself measured from the center of the pueblo, 5,000 varas to the south, 2,400 varas to the north, 2,550 varas to the east, and 2,550 varas to the west, and an ejido of a league for grazing south of the pueblo. 1763– 1764 SANM I:1351 Measurement of San Ildefonso’s league in light of possible encroachment by Francisco Gómez del Castillo and the heirs of Juana Luján. Carlos Fernández...

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