Bernal

The claim in this case was confirmed by the board, andoit has been submitted to this eourt on appeal without argument on the part of the United States. The claim seems to be one of the most meritorious 'which have been presented for our consideration The petition of Joaquin Bernal bears date on the tenth of May. 1834, and states that the petitioner was an invalid soldie^ ninety-four years old. and with a posterity of seventy-eight souls. That he had entered into possession of the place solicited five years before, by permission of the ayuntamiento of the pueblo of San José, and that he and his family had built four adobe houses, and had continued to occupy the land with his property consisting of twenty-one hundred head of cattle, one hundred and twenty sheep, three mares and fifty tame horses, etc The governor, after the usual references, acceded to the petition, and the concession was confirmed by the departmental assemblj’, with a slight modification of the boundaries of the tract — the assembly having-decided on the application of Juan Alvirez to except out of the land the portion claimed by the latter. In accordance with this resolution, the title was issued to Bernal on the…