Chabolla

The grantee in this case, on the seventeenth of May, 1S43, addressed a petition to the governor, representing that he had, some sixteen months previously, applied for a grant of land designated on a map, which he inclosed. This application, he stated, had been referred to General Sutter and the juzgado of the pueblo, but had been wholly neglected by them; and that in the meantime grants had been *388 made to Gulnac and other foreigners, less entitled than himself to favorable consideration. He therefore prayed the governor to mate him the concession as originally solicited. The governor made the usual marginal, decree or order of reference for information, and the juzgado of the pueblo of San José and the secretary, Jimeno, reported favorably to Chabolla’s application. On the twenty-fourth of January, 1844, the governor made his decree of concession, granting to Chabolla “eight sitios of ganado mayor on the borders of the river Cosumnes southward, and on that of the San Joaquin,” the possession to be measured two leagues on the bank of the river San Joaquin and the rest in the plain running to the east. The documento or title delivered to the grantee corresponds with the decree of…