Castro

It appears, by the expediente in this case, that on the twelfth of June, 1834, there was granted to the successors of Francisco Ma. Castro, then deceased, the lawful ownership of a tract of land known by the name of “San Pablo,” and bounded by the ranchos of San Antonio and El Pinole, and by a portion of the Bay of San Francisco. For this tract Francisco Castro had previously, on the twenty-third of April. 1823, obtained a concession from the territorial deputation. The fourth condition of the grant of 1834 declares the land granted to be three square leagues, a. little more or less, according to the diseno which accompanies the expediente. On the twenty-third of'June of the same year, Joaquin Castro, the son and representative of Francisco Ma. Castro, addressed a petition to the governor, in which he states that, through inadvertence, he neglected in his first petition to ask for the extent included in the diseno annexed, and “only claimed the three square leagues which we formerly occupied. That, as this piece of land is rather too small for the number of cattle grazing on it, he solicits, in the names of the other heirs, and as their agent, that the said petition be understood…