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206. Proposal of Carlos Leplicher to colonize in California. 1843. 11 ff. 
209. Petition of José Maria Ramirez requesting exemptions for his lands 
in California. June 14, 1844. 3 ff. 
211. Jd. by members of the Company of Bahia, Texas, now serving in 
the Army of the North, that they be not despoiled of their lands 
in Villa de Ampudia, on the left bank of the Rio Bravo. 1844. 
214, Petitions of Henrique Fitch, Carlos Gerolt, and Juan Andrés Cris- 
tiano, through Henrique Virmond, for lands on the Bay of San 
Francisco, Alta California. Correspondence of Virmond, Hijar, 
and others. 1832. 40 ff. 
(Note, from the date, that this expediente is filed out of place.) 
215. Claim of Carlos Leplicher to lands on the west side of the Rio 
Bravo. 1845. Cf. no. 206. 
216. Report of the Comisién de Californias on the influx of strangers. 
1844. If. 
219. Communication to the president of the Consejo de Gobierno trans- 
mitting a project for the colonization of the Department of Cali- 
fornia. The project is lacking. 1845. 1 f. 
221. Governor Pio Pico reports that he will do what he can to keep 
Americans bound for Oregon out of California. Oct. 20, 1845. 
227. Oficio addressed to Gonzalez Angulo commissioning him to present 
a plan to encourage the desertion of United States troops. 1846. 
22 ff. 
(Contains the report by Dr. Galvez of the plan of Nicolas Sinnot and Juan 
Murray to secure desertions by means of offering lands. Mexico, Sept. 
24, 1846.) 
Petitions for lands in California. 
Legajo 8. 1846-1848. 
Correspondence of the Direccién General de Colonizacion and the minis- 
ter of relations, concerning concessions in California and else- 
where. 1846. About 250 ff. 
248. Petition of Father Eugene McNamara, for the title to land in Alta 
California that had been granted to him by the governor. 1847. 
18 ff. 
253. Request by the Direccién General de Colonizacion, to the director 
of the Archivo General y Publico, for documents relating to the 
missions and presidios of the North. 1847. 
254, Report by the Direccién General de Colonizacién of illegal trade in 
California. Apr., 1848. 5 ff. 
Legajo 9. 1848-1850. see) 
Circulars relative to the frontier colonies, issued by the Direcciédn Gen- 
eral de Colonizacién and by the congressional Commission of 
Colonization. 
255. Petition of citizens of Laredo for permission to settle on Rio 
Salado. 1845. 
258. Report relative to the request of Father McNamara regarding lands 
in California. 1847. 
(See above, no. 248.) 
317. Request by the governor of Nuevo Leon for lands for the Sem- 
inoles, Kickapoos, and Muscogees. 
