Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-06-28
PRIVATE LAND CLAIMS.
Adjournment of Above Entitled Court
Until OctOber-TeXt of Decree in
Peralta Overwhelmingly
Hearing of Reavis.

After rejecting the Peralta- Reavls,
Juan Gid, and other minor land grant
claims, and thus lifting the clouds of I'M
certainty from the titles to about 13OOO,-
600 acres of land in New Mexico and
Arizona, the United States court of
private land claims has adjourned until
the 9TH of October, and the judges there
of have departed for the east to enjoy
we'll earned vacations. Among the last
official acts of Chief Justice Reed before
leaving was to sign the decree in the
Peralta Reavis case as follows:
DECREE OF THE COURT.
In the court of private land claims,
Santa Fe district.
James Addison Peralta- Reavis and
Dona Sofia Loreto Micaela de
Peralta Reavis Lee Maso Silva
de Peralta de la Cordoba, hus-
band and wife,
Petitioners.
vs..
The United States,
Respondent.
On this Sd day of June, A. d., 1895, the
above entitled cause coming on to be
heard upon the amended petition filed in
said cause on the 18th day of November,
1893, and the amended answer and cross
petition duly filed by the United States
on the Sd day of June, 1895, and after
hearing and considering all of the evidence
presented by the plaintiffs in support of
said clam, and the evidence presented
by the government in opposition thereto,
and after considering the objections pre-.
sented by the plaintiffs to the testimony
offered by the government the court
hereby overrules the same.
The court finds from the evidence that
said grant or claim is not entitled to con-
tirmation in the name of the alleged orig
inal grantee, Don Miguel Nemecio Silva
de Peralta de la Cordoba, nor in the name
of anyone else claiming an interest
therein.
That the claim is wholly fictitious and
fraudulent, and the various documents
upon which the same is based, as we'll as
those tending to establish the plaintiff,
Dona Sofia Loreto Micaela Silva de Pc,
ralta, as the great-granddaughte of Don
Miguel Nemecio Silva de Peralta de la
Cordoba and the granddaughter of Don
Jesus Miguel Nemecio Silva de Peralta
de la Cordoba are each ard all of them
forged, manufactured and have been sur
reptitiously introduced into the records
and archives at Madrid and Seville in the
kingdom of Spain and into the records
and archives in the city of Guadala lara,
in the state of Jalisco, republic of Mex
leo.
And the court further finds that the
baptismal and burial records of the par
sh of San Bernardino and San Salvador,
in the county of San Bernardino, In the
state of California, copies of which were
introduced in evidence by plaintiffs in
support of their claim, for the purpose of
establishing the identity of one of the petit
tioners herein, Dona Sofia Loreto Micaela
Silva de Peralta, as the daughter of Dona
Sofia Laura Micaela de Peralta de la Cor
dova E. Vara and Don Jose Carmen
Masno are forgeries and have been fraud
emily and surreptItiously inserted in the
| records of said mission.
| And the court further finds that no such
person as Don Miguel Nemecio Silva de
Peralta de la Cordoba, bearing the var
ious titles of nobility and official rela-
tions with the King of Spain as set forth
| in said amended petition, and to whom
said grant is alleged to have been made,
ever existed, or that he had son Don
Jesus Miguel Nemecio Silva de Peralta
de la Cordoba, to whom he willed said
property so alleged to have been granted.
And the court further finds that the
plaintiff Dona Sofa Loreto Micaela Silva
de Perata de la Cordoba and her husband
and co-plaintiff, James Addison Reavis,
now styling himself James Addison Per-
ata-Reavis, are not in any wise related
to or connected with said alleged origi-
nal grantee, the alleged Don Miguel Ne
mecio Silva de Peralta de la Cordoba,
either by privity of blood or estate but
that they and each of them are fraudu-
lent and fictitious claimants for said
property described in the amended petit
ton.
1t is therefore ordered, adjndged and
decreed that the claim to the property
which is commonly known and called the
Peralta grant, situated in the territories
of Arizona and New Mexico, is hereby re-
jected. (Signed.) JOSEPH r. REED,
Chief Justice Court of
Private Land Claims,