57By a decree issued July 17, 1844, the department of New Mexico had
been divided into the counties of Bernalillo, Rio Arriba, San Miguel.
Santa Ana, Santa Fé, Taos, and Valencia, all of which included territory
on both sides of the Rio Grande. Sen.
Ex. Doc.
41, 30th Cong, Ist sess
(Ser no 505), p. 478; also Bancroft, History
of
Arizona
and
New
Mexico,
311-312. In the Bancroft
Collection,
University of California,
is a "Map of New Mexico with Pueblos as noted by Calhoun, 1850,
which shows the boundaries of these counties as conceived by James S.
Calhoun, the United States Indian agent in New Mexico.
