UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. DEPARTMENT OF STATE. To all to whom these presents shall come, Greeting: I certify, That annexed is a true copy of papers transmitted by Mr. EDGAR CONKLING on the twenty-ninth of September, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, and received on the day following at this Department, where they are yet on file; and that the certificates thereto in the Spanish language, with seal attached, are to all appearances genuine originals. After presentation to His Excellency the PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC, of your solicitation, asking a concession of Four Square Mexican Leagues of untitled Lands that may be found in Sonora, he has been pleased to grant the same, with the understanding, that it shall be for your account to ascertain and designate the place where said Lands exist. You to cause the same to be measured, and the boundaries drawn, by a competent surveyor, who shall form its corresponding plan and description. That after this being done, it shall be sent to this department, in order to obtain the corresponding Title of Ownership. According to the order of the Supreme Government, I advise you for the corresponding effect as the result of your above mentioned solicitation. God and Liberty! Mexico, March 27, 1857. Mr. CHARLES DENMAN. SILICEO. The undersigned 1st Chief Clerk of the Ministry of Foreign Relations: I hereby certify, that the signature at foot of foregoing official document is that of MANUEL SILICEO, Minister of Fomento, Colonization, Industry and Commerce of the Mexican Republic, and the same used in all documents that he authorizes. Mexico, April 22d, 1857. LUCAS DE PALACIO Y MAGAROLA, The undersigned, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to Mexico, hereby certifies, that the foregoing is the signature of LUCAS DE PALACIO Y MAGAROLA, Chief Clerk of the Department of Foreign Affairs of the Mexican Republic. Num. 158. Regdo. á fl. 31 del Libro respo. Dros $5 (cinco.) JOHN FORSYTH. CONSULADO MEXICANO en N. YORK. Certifico que las anteriores copias lo son á la letra de los documentos originales pre sentados á este Consulado, y los cuales han sido traducidos del idioma Castellano al Ynglés por el que subscribe. Y para que conste espido el presente certificado en Nueva York, á 28 de Sete. de 1858. J. M. DURAN. SELLO. Know all men by these presents, that I, CHARLES Denman, of the City of New York, in consideration of the sum of Twenty Thousand Dollars to me paid by EDGAR CONKLING, of the City of Cincinnati, and State of Ohio, have granted, bargained, sold, and assigned and transferred unto the said EDGAR CONKLING, all my right, title and interest in and to Four Sitios (or Leagues) of Land, situate in Sonora in the Republic of Mexico, to be selected by my said grantee, out of the untitled lands of said Republic, in the said State of Sonora, in conformity with the grant of the said four leagues of land made to me, by the said Republic of Mexico, bearing date the twenty-seventh of March, 1857, of which the following is a copy, the original being hereto annexed, viz.: "Dada cuenta al E. S. el Presidente de la Republica con la solicitud de V. contrahida á que se le concedan cuatro sitios de ganado mayor de los terrenos baldios que haya en Sonora se ha servido acordar de conformidad, bajo el concepto de que será de cuenta de V. señalar el lugar donde existan tales baldios, destinandolos judicialmente y midandolos por medio de un perito que forme el plano y description correspondiente. Que concluidas estas dilgencias las remita á esta Secretaria para que se le espida el titulo de propriedad correspondiente. Lo que de orden Suprema digo á V. para los efectos correspondientes como resultado de su mencionada solicitud." (Signed) Dios y Libertad! Megico, Mzo. 27 de 1857. SILICEO—Rubrica. And I, the said CHARLES DENMAN, do also assign, sell and transfer to the said EDGAR CONKLING, the grant above recited, and authorize him and his legal representatives in my name or otherwise, to locate, select and take possession of the lands in said grant mentioned, and to receive all proper deeds, patents and grants therefor, and to hold said lands to his own use forever; and to convey the said lands with like effect as I could do had I located the same, and these presents had not been executed; with power also to my said grantee to assign the said grant and to substitute his assign as my attorney for the purpose of locating and conveying said lands. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal at the city of New York, the ninth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight. } SS. United States of America, Be it known that on the ninth day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, before me CHARLES A. RAPPALLO, a notary public duly commissioned and sworn in and for the State of New York, dwelling in the City of New York, personally appeared Mr. CHARLES DENMAN to me personally known, and he executed the foregoing instrument in my presence, and in the presence of JONAH P. WINGATE and CHARLES T. MORSON, the subscribing witnesses, who signed their names as witnesses in my presence. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office the day and year last above written. Charles A. Rappallo, Notary Public, New York. CHARLES A. RAPPALLO, Notary Public. MEXICAN CONSULATE No. 127. Regis at p. 28 of corresps book Fees $2. } I hereby certify that the signature of Charles A. Rappallo, who it appears authorized the present document, is that of a notary public of this city; and that the same, as well as the accompanying seal, is entitled to full faith and credit. In testimony whereof, I hereunto set my hand and seal of office, in the city of New York, this (10th) tenth day of March (1858) one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight. Consulado J. M. DURAN. Ne in No. 159. Regdo á f1 31 del lib respo Dros 5$ (cinco.) CONSULADO MEXICANO EN N. YORK. Certifico que las anteriores copias lo son á la letra de los documentos originales presentados á este Consulado, y los cuales han sido escrupulosamente comparados y traducidos por el que subscribe del Castellano al Ynglés, la parte que lo requerìa. Y para que consto espido el presente certificado en Nueva York, á 28 de Sete de 1858. J. M. DURAN. SELLO. (5) Principal Office of the Department of Sonora, 1866. Señor SUB PREFECTOR OF THIS DISTRICT :— CUMMINGS CHERRY, a native of Scotland, Citizen of the United States of America for thirty years, and resident in Sonora for two months, appears before you, and, in the customary form, says: Because of a concession decreed by his Excellent Señor, the President of the Republic in office on the 27th of March of 1857, and other documents thereto annexed, and the Power of Attorney which I return, showing that I am entitled to own four square leagues of the public estate of Sonora, I have chosen-in accordance with the terms of my concession, and have found abandoned and deserted— the lands which were comprehended in the ancient ranche of "San Juan del Rio," and I make of these proper denouncement according to law, and have measured the same as follows, viz.: Commencing at and running easterly from the junction of "Joriquipa" cañada with the River a sufficient distance to include within the measurement the "Valenzuela" and "San Patricio " Mines; and thence running from this point southerly and westerly, a sufficient distance to include within the measurement the "Cañon de los Heurigos," this measurement to accommodate itself in form so as to include the desired lands. In the duties of the office in your charge, you will order the publication of this denouncement in the Official Periodical of the Department, to the end that if there are any persons who have just claims to the lands which I ask for, they may present themselves to prove the same within the legal period of time which you will designate; and if no claimants appear, nor no legal claims to the property be presented, in the legal period of time, I ask that the above described lands be awarded to me, as a step prior to the Official measurement and other procedures legal and proper to give me title in accordance with the conditions of my grant; consenting to pay such necessary costs and expense as may be incurred in placing me in possession of these lands. Through right of property, and not from malice, I do that which is necessary, etc. CUMMINGS CHERRY. Moctezuma, January 31, 1866. |