Luís de Velasco, 1597 
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hacienda of the said provinces of New Mexico, where he served your 
Highness for a long time, bringing very good results in the increase of 
the real hacienda. After this, by commission of the governor he went 
to make other campaigns and discoveries of mines in the said provinces, 
carrying out the orders that he had for it. Afterwards he was appointed 
procurer general of the army to consult with the Count of Monterey, 
viceroy of New Spain, and its royal Audiencia, about matters that came 
up concerning the said campaign, and served very acceptably. In the 
kingdom of Nueva Vizcaya he served in the office of captain and alcalde 
mayor, and in the province of Santa Bárbara, and the camp and mines of 
Mapimi, administering justice on the frontiers of Yndehe and Guanacebi, 
where, during the eleven years that he has been a resident, he has lent, 
from his well-filled household, arms, horses, and servants for anything 
that contributed to the service of your Highness. Because he had served 
in all that time on the said occasions and because it was a new country, 
it was necessary to use up a large amount of his fortune on the said 
occasions. He is poor, with a wife and children, and with obligations to 
live according to his station. All of this appears from the evidence, 
patents, and documents which I present, in view of which I beg that your 
Highness will have the goodness to appoint him in one of the districts of 
the province of New Spain to one of the offices of auditor, treasurer, or 
factor of its real hacienda, where he will receive pay. 
Gaspar de Lesquina. 
. . . And being at the spring called Santo Domingo, where the part of 
the army of his Majesty which is going to New Mexico is encamped, on 
July 13, 1597, before Don Juan de Ofiate, governor and captain-general 
of New Mexico and its kingdoms and provinces for our lord, the king, 
and before me, Juan Pérez de Denis, 70 clerk to his royal Majesty and secre¬ 
tary of the said expedition, he presented this petition [herein] contained 
and asked for what is contained in it: 
I, Captain Don Luis de Velasco, declare that as commissary judge of 
your lordship I went to the valleys of Súchil and Apoana to prepare for 
the journey the married people who are going on this expedition to New 
Mexico. I took many measures concerning it, as appears in the order and 
commission which your Lordship gave me, and the autos which I made 
and evidence which I present, in the prosecution of which I brought them 
as far as this place of El Agua de Santo Domingo, where they are at 
present lodged. Because it is necessary for my interests that certification 
of it be given me, I ask and supplicate your lordship to order the present 
secretary to give me two or more certified copies of the said order and 
diligencias upon which I ask for justice. Luis de Velasco. 
This petition having been seen by the señor governor, he ordered that 
the certified copy asked for be given to the said Captain Don Luis de 
Velasco as he asks, these autos being with the papers of the expedition; 
and Don Juan de Oñate so ordered and signed it, and it passed before me. 
Juan Pérez de Donis, clerk. 
