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Abstract : Sept, 23, 1752. New Orleans. Michel to the minister. Commerce with France, the Islands, and Spanish colonies: exports of tobacco, indigo, wax, lumber, and furs; imports of Campeachy wood, piastres, and smoking tobacco. Culture of rice, corn, indigo, cotton, and wax trees; cotton gin; construction of public buildings and private houses at New Orleans; flour shipments from Illinois; need of settlers and negroes for farms; debauchery among negroes; asks that planters from Martinique be allowed to immigrate with slaves. 14pp. AC., C 13, 36:269.(Miss.)

Abstract : November 24, 1746. New Orleans. Vaudreuil to the minister. Spanish and Island trade; arrival of Dutch vessel from Curaçao; Vaudreuil and Lenormant differ over sale of cargo; cultivation of indigo. 3pp. AC., C 13, 30: 104; 110.

Abstract : January 2, 1749. Versailles, Minister to Vaudreuil and Michel. Informs them of a bounty granted by the English Parliament on indigo from their colonies; instructions to prevent all trade in Louisiana with English and Dutch. 2pp. AC., B 89:348; C 13, 34:5. (LC.)

Abstract : January 29, 1744. Marly. Minister to Vaudreuil. French and Louisiana trade with Spanish colonies; cultivation of indigo; Dalcourt\'s slave trade. 2 pp. AC., B 78:459. (LC.)

Abstract : November 20, 1712. Marly. Minister to Crozat. Graveline; tobacco factory; Negroes from Santo Domingo for Louisiana; growth of indigo. 2 pp. AC., B 34:134. (LC.)

Abstract : May 22, 1731. Marly. Royal memoir to Périer and Salmon. Retrocession; their relations with each other; duties and powers as to military affairs, land grants, police, justice, church affairs and debts; agriculture, cotton, indigo, hemp, flax, silk; rice, wheat, etc.; pitch and tar; lumber; commerce with France and the Islands; Spanish trade; superior council administration of funds, food, munitions, and merchandise; Indian affairs; troops; flour supply; fortifications; Illinois country and its government; artillery. 19 pp. AC., B 55: 593. (LC.)

Abstract : August 26, 1732. Marly. Minister to Duclos. Transmits certificate respecting indigo seed sent to Louisiana. 1 p. AC., B 56:547.

Abstract : August 26, 1732. Marly. Minister to Salmon. Instructions regarding military reports; Louboey\'s quarters; trade of French merchants in Louisiana; Rasteau\'s St. Paul; cultivation and shipment of tobacco; indigo; cotton; pilots at Balize; navigation at mouth of the Mississippi. 3 pp. AC., B 57:791. (LC.)

Abstract : September 2, 1732. Marly. Royal memoir to serve as instructions to Bienville as governor of Louisiana. Reasons for making him governor; religion, missionaries, Jesuits and Capuchins; Ursuline convent, at New Orleans, nun\'s hospital and school; administration of justice; history, composition, and jurisdiction of the superior council; power of the governor; police; care of Negroes; marriage to be encouraged; legal ages; sugar industry; growth of indigo, rice, wheat, cotton, hemp, and flax; tobacco, its price and market; pitch and tar; commerce of colony with French merchants, French Islands, Pensacola, and other Spanish colonies; military affairs, Swiss and French troops with equipment, militia, artillery, and fortifications; Indian affairs, Natchez, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Illinois, and others. 22 pp. AC., B 57:796. (LC.)

Abstract : September 2, 1732. Marly. Minister to Crémont. Approval of his report on Indian affairs and agriculture at Mobile; refuses, as useless, an inspector of storehouses at Indian posts, second surgeon, Negro overseer, and constable for Mobile; rice, indigo, tobacco, pitch and tar; Beauehamp\'s enterprise. 4 pp. AC., B 57:808. (LC.)

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