Juan de Oñate, J 595 
235 
Let him be given the Indians who 
seem to be of that province and the 
Indian woman for whom he asks if 
she be living. 
Let the ordinance of his Majesty 
which is given in the ordinances for 
new settlements, articles 23 to 56 
inclusive, 7 be carried out. 
Let him be granted all that which 
his Majesty concedes by the articles 
of the said ordinances for new set¬ 
tlements to those who make such 
expeditions without excepting any¬ 
thing whatever, on condition that 
he fulfills on his part the obligation 
that he may have in accordance 
with them; for which purpose let 
them [the ordinances] be delivered 
to him, and let it be written to his 
Majesty that he should show him 
favor and reward his merits and 
services. 
Item: They must give me the 
Indians that are to be found in this 
City of Mexico of the nation Tata- 
ragueyes, 6 for they are the nearest 
to that province, and in particular 
an Indian woman who was brought 
from New Mexico, so that they may 
serve as interpreters on the expedi¬ 
tion. 
When the provinces and first set¬ 
tlements of New Mexico are reached 
they are to be resettled with Span¬ 
ish people as may seem best, and as 
the climate and nature of the land 
may demonstrate. 
That which your lordship, if you 
please, should grant to me and order 
to be observed in the name of his 
Majesty is the following: 
1. First, in virtue of the permis¬ 
sion which your lordship has from 
his Majesty for the purpose of this 
exploration, pacification, and settle¬ 
ment, you should do me the favor 
of issuing a writ for it, inserted in 
that of the royal cédula and com¬ 
mission and paragraphs of letters 
which your lordship has from his 
Majesty, with the title of governor 
and captain-general of the said pro¬ 
vinces of the new discovery, with 
the strength and security for its 
validation for the two lives granted 
by ordinance 56.® 
And your lordship should take 
it upon yourself to supplicate his 
Majesty to immediately grant two 
other [lives], making them four in 
view of the great expense and labor 
of the said expedition, so that, as 
such governor and captain-general, 
I may exercise in the name of his 
Majesty every jurisdiction, civil and 
criminal, upper and lower, mero 
mixto 9 power, and after my days, 
the said lives as I may appoint and 
as is granted by the said ordinance. 
