State v. Bustamente

Roberts, Chief Justice.

The title filed with the petition in this case is a concession by the Governor of Tamaulipas, executed on the second day of January, 1848, accompanied with a plat and field-notes of a survey made in 1835.

The concession recites that the fifty dollars, at which the pasture land called “Los Confitas” was valued, was paid into the treasury; that the land had been denounced by Pedro Bustamente, as appeared from the expediente made to that effect. It does not recite when the proceedings commenced, which would properly have been part of the expediente, so as to show that they…