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The claim in this case is under the general title of Mi-cheltorena. This title is as follows: “The • supreme departmental government not being able to extend, one by one, the respective titles to all the citizens who have petitioned for lands, with a favorable information from Don Augustus Sutter, captain and judge in charge of the jurisdiction of New Helvetia and Sacramento, I, in the name of the Mexican nation, by these letters confer upon them and their families the lands described in their applications and maps, to all and each of them, who has solicited and obtained favorable information from said Señor Sut-ter, up to this day, so that no one can dispute their titles. Señor Sutter will give them a copy of this in furtherance of a formal title, with which they will present themselves to this government, to extend the same title in the proper form, and upon corresponding sealed papier; and to establish this in all time I give this document, which will be recognized and acknowledged by all the authorities, civil and military, of the Mexican nation, in this and the other departments. Duly authenticated with the seal of the government and the military seal, in Monterey, this…