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. LIBRARY 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 27. Of the table of fees to be received by persons employed in Mexico and in 28. Of the oath to be taken by persons filling the offices of the Tribunal ib. 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. 1. Administrative jurisdiction of the Tribunal General 2. The Tribunal General to take cognizance of causes relating to Mines, 3. Administrative jurisdiction of the territorial deputations 4. The territorial deputations to proceed in causes relating to Mines, indepen- dently of the Tribunal General 5. When proceedings to be had verbally 6. Of summary judgments in causes in the first instance, and also in ap- 7. Of appeals; in what cases admissible 8. Of signing decrees and judgments 9. When the Territorial Deputies may act separately, and what to be done 11. Of reports of the proceedings in causes 12. Of the execution of the sentences of the Tribunal, and of the Deputa- 13. Of appeals, and the persons who are to compose the Courts of Appeal 23. Of executions in Mines or reducing establishments 4. Of Mines given up under an execution, when liable to denouncement. |