from the lagoon of the high hill to the Punta de Lobos, and the same which is shown by the map which accompanies the documents. The magistrate who gives possession shall have it measured according to law. I consequently command, that holding the present title as firm and valid, a record be kept thereof in the corresponding book, and it be delivered to the party interested for his security and other ends. Given in the city of Los Angeles on the twenty-fifth day of June, eighteen hundred and forty-six, on this common paper for want of sealed This title has been recorded in the corresponding book. PIO PICO. MORENO. No. 2. In the port of Monterey, Upper California, on the nineteenth day of September, eighteen hundred and forty-six, before me, Walter Colton, justice of the peace of this district, and before the undersigned witnesses, appeared Don Benito Diaz, and said, that, in his own name and in that of his wife, Dona Luisa Soto de Diaz, and other heirs and successors, and whoever, through them, may have any kind of title, voice, or fame, that he sells and gives in public sale and perpetual alienation, in right of inheritance, and forever and ever, to Mr. Thomas O. Larkin, resident of this place, a land of which he is owner, in virtue of a grant made to him by his Excellency the governor of the department, Don Pio Pico, according to the title which accompanies the present writing, dated the twentyfifth of June of the present year, which land is composed of two square leagues, a little more or less, situated in the entrance and port of San Francisco, with the boundaries mentioned in said title, which are from the lagoon of the high hill to the Punta de Lobos. The seller declares that he has neither alienated nor mortgaged it, and that it is free from all public burdens; and, as such, he sells it for the price of one thousand dollars in common silver coin, which he has received to his entire satis faction; that, from this time, he renounces, and separates himself from the dominion, ownership, and every other right which he may have to said land, renouncing and transferring it to the buyer, that he may dispose of it as of a thing which belongs to him, the settler binding himself that this sale shall be to the purchaser certain, sure, and effective, and that no lawsuit shall molest nor move him. In testimony whereof, he signed it with me and the two subscribing witnesses. GUILLERMO R. GARNER, WALTER COLTON, Chief Magistrate, Monterey. BENITO DIAZ, J. DE CASTANEDA, JOSE JOAQUIN GOMEZ. Magistrate's Secretary. |