Carpentier

This case comes up on objections to the survey, filed on the part of the United States and. of certain persons intervening in the suit. The circumstances of this case are, in some respects, peculiar. A statement of the various proceedings had in it is therefore necessary. The grai-t under which the land is claimed was made by Governor Figueroa on the 10th June, 1833, to Bartolo Pacheco and Mariano Castro. Under this grant two claims, each for an undivided half of the land, were presented to the board. One of these claims was in the name of Rafaela Soto de Pacheco, and in the other that of Domingo Peralta. The claim of Pacheco was rejected by the board, for some defect in the mesne conveyances; but that of Peralta was confirmed. Both cases were appealed.

The board had confirmed the' claim of Peralta to “one-half of the tract called ‘San Ramon’ containing two square leagues of land, more or less.” In the decree the boundaries of this tract were set forth, and reference was made to the diseño which accompanied the expediente On the hearing of the cause in this court it appeared that the calls of the grant and the delineation on the diseño described the tract with much certainty, and…