History of Mendocino County, California : comprising its geography, geology, topography, climatography, springs and timber . villages. TheViceroy of New Spain had also of course authority to make grants in CaK-fomia, and sometimes exercised it. It was pursuant to his order that presi-dios, missions, and pueblos, were severally established, and the places for themindicated by the local authority. Under all these authorities, grants weremade; .strictness of written law required that they should have been made byexact measurements, with written titles, and arecord of them kept. In therude and unc
History of Mendocino County, California : comprising its geography, geology, topography, climatography, springs and timber . villages. TheViceroy of New Spain had also of course authority to make grants in CaK-fomia, and sometimes exercised it. It was pursuant to his order that presi-dios, missions, and pueblos, were severally established, and the places for themindicated by the local authority. Under all these authorities, grants weremade; .strictness of written law required that they should have been made byexact measurements, with written titles, and arecord of them kept. In therude and uncultivated state of the country that then existed, and lands pos-sessing so httle value, these formaUties were to a great extent disregarded, andif not then altogether disregarded, the evidence of their observance in manycases were lost. It is certain that the measurements even of the grants ofvillage lots, were very unexact and imperfect; and of larger tracts, such aswere granted to the principal men, no measurement at all attempted, and eventhe quantity not always expressed, the sole description often biing by a name. T/t^rc^^ M.^^- THE MEXICAN GEANTS. 199 descriptive, in fact or by repute, of the place granted. The law of custom,with the acquiescence of the highest authorities, overcame in these respects, the?written law. Written permits and gi-ants were no doubt usually given, butif any systematic records or memoranda of them were kept, they have nowdisappeared, or I was not able to meet with them. ]n some cases, but not inall, the oiiginaLs no doubt still exist in the possession of the descendants of thegrantees; indeed, I have been assured thei-e are many old written titles in thecountry, of which the archives do not contain any trace. But in other cases,no doubt, the titles rested originally only on verbal permits. It was verycustoinar}- in the Spanish colonies for the principal neighborhood authoritiesto give permission to occupy and cultivate lands, with the understandi
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