OF SPANISH AND MEXICAN LAW, IN RELATION TO MINES, AND TITLES TO REAL ESTATE, IN FORCE IN CALIFORNIA, TEXAS AND NEW MEXICO; AND IN THE TERRITORIES ACQUIRED UNDER THE LOUISIANA AND FLORIDA VOLUME I. CONTAINING A TRANSLATION OF THE MINING ORDINANCES OF NEW SPAIN-GAMBOA'S MIN- "NOVISIMA RECOPILACION," AND THE "RECOPILACION DE LAS INDIAS;" AND IN THE DECREES OF THE CORTES OF SPAIN AND OF FERDINAND VII., OF MINES, COLONIZATION, AND THE RIGHT OF FOREIGN- ALSO, EXTRACTS FROM PUBLIC DOCUMENTS, and froM THE LAWS OF CALIFOR- TOGETHER WITH A DIGEST OF THE COMMON LAW, ON THE SUBJECT OF BY JOHN A. ROCKWELL, COUNSELLOR AT LAW. NEW-YORK: JOHN S. VOORHIES, LAW BOOKSELLER AND PUBLISHER. 1851. Entered, according to the Act of Congress, in the Year Eighteen Hundred and Fifty-One, BY JOHN A. ROCKWELL, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York. ✔205478 CONTENTS. PREFACE. Page 7 I. Of the Tribunal General of the Miners of New Spain. 9. Of persons to preside over and regulate the general meetings of electors 30 10. Of re-election to such offices 11. Of the obligation to discharge such offices 12. How to proceed in case of an occasional vacancy in such offices 13. Of the duration of the offices of future administrators and directors general ib. 18. Of fiscal and promoter of the Miners 19. Of communications to be made to the King by the Tribunal 32 ib. 6. Of administrators voting for their principals 7. Who to preside at and regulate such elections 8. Territorial deputations-number of deputies composing them-mode of 14. Of the account of the election to be transmitted to the Tribunal 15. Of the mode of paying the territorial deputies, inspectors, and survey- Of Jurisdiction in Mining Causes. 17. Appeals from the first sentences of the Appeal Courts-by whom to be 18. Of the application to the King, in his Council of the Indies ib. |