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<br /> <br />":I" <br />. t'w <br />'i.O <br />lel <br />(_:) <br />(-:, <br /> <br />Attachment 5 <br />(Continued) <br /> <br />4 <br /> <br />incorporated, your orator was anti tIed to purchase and ho Id the <br /> <br /> <br />premises hereinbefore described, with all the rights, privile.ges <br /> <br /> <br />and appurtenances thereunto belonging, and that by divers mesne <br /> <br /> <br />conveyances for good and valuable considerations your orator <br /> <br /> <br />became the sole owner of the most southerly five hundred thousand <br /> <br /> <br />acres of said Saqgre de Cristo Grant ,hereinbefore described, <br /> <br /> <br />except certain small tracts donated by the said Charles Beaubien <br /> <br /> <br />for town sites and similar purposes, and your orator further <br /> <br /> <br />that the Costilla River, in the County of Taos and Territory of <br /> <br />New Mexico, has its source and flows its entire length to its <br /> <br /> <br />confluence with the Rio Grande Del Norte, through the said lands <br /> <br /> <br />of your orator and that your orator and your orator's grantors <br /> <br /> <br />have been since the said 12th. day of January. 1844, and your <br /> <br /> <br />orator is now the owner of both banks of said stream from its <br /> <br />source to its mouth; that the waters of said stream are of great <br /> <br /> <br />value to your orator as the means of irrigation of the lands of <br /> <br /> <br />your orator adjoini~ and in the vicinity of said stl~am and for <br /> <br /> <br />other purposes. and that the waters of said stream are insuffioient <br /> <br /> <br />as your orator is informed and believest for the purpose of irri- <br /> <br /> <br />gating all the lands of your orator to which the SaJOO may be <br /> <br /> <br />diverted, and that -without such water for irrigation and domestio <br /> <br /> <br />pill~oses said lands are greatly depreciated in value and are <br /> <br /> <br />rendered Unavailable except for grazi~ stock in limited numbers. <br /> <br /> <br />And your ora tor further shows that your orator now has, and <br /> <br /> <br />it and its grantors have ever since the said 12th. day of. January, <br /> <br /> <br />1844. been in. the actual, open and notorious use. OCcl~ation and <br /> <br /> <br />enjoyment of s~id premises embraci~ said Costilla River and both <br /> <br /> <br />banks thereof from its source to its mouth under 01 aim and color <br />