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<br /> <br />C; <br />,'::J <br />lJ) <br />CJ <br />t4,,_) <br /> <br />Attachment 6 <br />(Continued) <br /> <br />5 <br /> <br />And your orator further shows that your orator now has, and <br /> <br />(_.OJ 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, occupation and <br /> <br />enjoyment of said premises embraci~"said Costilla River and both <br /> <br /> <br />banks thereof from its source to its mouth under claim and color <br /> <br />of title th~reto, and durtQg said entire periOd has paid all taxes <br /> <br /> <br />lawfully levied upon said premises. <br /> <br /> <br />And now' so it, is may it please yoo.r Honors. that the said <br /> <br />Ferdinand Meyer. Jose Manuel Mansanares, Erineo Garcia, Antonio <br /> <br />MaU9anares, Louis Cohn, Juan Andres Bernal, Jerman Manzanares. <br /> <br />Rumaldo Manzanares, Antonio Baca. Diego Pacheco, Pedro Rafael <br /> <br /> <br />Truj"illo, and Juan Rafael Madril. combining and confedera-tirg \'lith <br /> <br />divers persons at present unknown to your orator, but whose names <br /> <br />MIen discovered your orator praJrs it may be at liberty to insert <br /> <br /> <br />herein with apt words to char,ge them as parties defendant hereto, <br /> <br /> <br />associated as owners of the Manzanares Ditch, have diverted and <br /> <br />still continue to divert from the natural channel of-said stream <br /> <br />and without the consent of your orator. large quantities of the <br /> <br /> <br />water of said stream, which water so diverted by defendants and <br /> <br />07'M-A.,:J,&..( <br /> <br />their confederates is used~bY them and is not returned to said <br /> <br /> <br />stream, but is wholly lost to your orator, to its, your orator'~ <br /> <br />manifest wrong. dam~e and injury. <br /> <br /> <br />And your orator further shows that although said Costilla <br /> <br /> <br />River, from its source to its confluence with the Rio Grande Del <br /> <br /> <br />Norte, and both banks thereof. are located in the Territory_of New <br /> <br /> <br />Mexico, yet the waters so diverted from said stream by defendants <br /> <br /> <br />as aforesaid are conducted by means of said Manzanares Ditch out <br /> <br /> <br />of said Territory of New Mexico and into, the State of Colorado, <br />