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OFFICIAL RECORDS AT SANTA FE'. 
improved) is annexed. It is more particularly referred to in chapter nr. With regard to their 
numbers, it is difficult to form a satisfactory estimate. 
Plate I. 
In the report of Lieutenant Abert is found an extract from an official statement of the popu¬ 
lation of blew Mexico, in which the Pueblo Indians are included. The following is a copy of it: 
Extracts f rom the records in the State Department at Santa Fe. 
[Translation.] 
“Mariano Martinez de Lejanza, brevet brigadier general and constitutional governor of'tlie 
department of New Mexico, to its inhabitants sends greeting : That the assembly of the depart¬ 
ment has agreed to decree the following : 
“ The assembly of the department of New Mexico, in discharging the powers which are con- 
peded by the 134th article of the organic law of the republic, decrees the following : 
‘ £ DIVISION OF THE DEPARTMENT. 
“ Article 1. The department of New Mexico, conformably to the 4th article of the constitution, 
is hereby divided into three districts, which shall be called the Central, the North, and the 
Southeast. The whole shall be divided into seven counties, and these into three municipalities. 
The population, according to the statistics which are presented for this purpose, is 100,064. 
The capital of this department is Santa Fe. 
CENTRAL DISTRICT. 
“ Art. 2. This district is hereby divided into three counties, which shall be called Santa Fe, 
Santa Ana, and San Miguel del Bado. The capital of these three counties shall be the city of 
Santa Fe. 
