Castro

This ease ha3 been submitted to this court on appeal without argument or the statement of any objection to its validity. We have, however, as in other cases, examined the transcript, which is unusually voluminous, and have perceived no obstacle to its confirmation. The first application for the land appears to have been made by Don Francisco Castro in 1823, and to have been addressed to the deputation. On the same day a degree was made granting the place solicited, and directing the military commander of the presidio of San Francisco to put the petitioner in possession. This seems, from various causes, not to have been done, nor does the title to the laud appear to have issued to Francisco Castro during his lifetime, although, as appears from the expediente, he had gone upon the land, placed cattle upon it, and from time to time solicited of the governor the formal title. On his death, his son and the administrator of his estate. Joaquin Ysidro Castro, petitioned the governor on the twenty-sixth of May, 1834, for the land occupied by tiie family, stating it to be three leagues in extent, and annexing to his petition a map of the land solicited. The governor, after having caused…