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Abstract : August 14, 1739. New Orleans. Bienville and Salmon to the minister. Rejection of proposal respecting Du Breull\'s house. Reduction in price of pitch and tar. (Duplicate.) 2 pp. AC., C 13, 24:19.

Abstract : November 25, 1738. New Orleans. Salmon to the minister. Bills of exchange drawn on appropriation for 1739; report with prices on pitch, tar, indigo, and rice; mortality of children and soldiers; nun qualified as an apothecary. Marginal notes. 8 pp. AC., C 13, 23:134.

Abstract : July 30, 1738. Compiègne. Minister to directors of Company of the Indies. Accepts their price for Louisiana pitch and tar. 1p. AM., B 2, 305:408.

Abstract : April 15, 1735. New Orleans. Bienville and Salmon to the minister. Trade with Spaniards at Balize, Mobile, Pensacola, and Adayes, by Beaubois and other priests; trade with French islands; growth of tobacco and indigo; silk worm; cotton and its ginning; pitch and tar; character of farmers. (Abstract.) Notes by the minister. 8 pp. AC., C 13, 20:52.

Abstract : April 20, 1735. New Orleans. Salmon to the minister. Acknowledges position of adjudicator for Company of the Indies, by royal decree of October 16, 1733; explains Superior Council\'s ruling on debts to the company; fixes the prices of pitch, tar, indigo, and other native products to be received in payment. 9 pp. AC., C 13, 20: 208.

Abstract : September 4, 1735. New Orleans. Salmon to the minister. Sends Capt[ain] Seignette\'s statement of amount of colonial products in his cargo to France; statement of pitch, tar, tobacco, and furs still awaiting shipment; cultivation of indigo. 1p. AC., C 13, 20:257.

Abstract : February 20, 1736. New Orleans. Salmon to the minister. Reasons for drawing large bills of exchange: to pay for merchandise; advances to contractor of public works for materials; aid to pitch and tar industry; promotion of trade with the Islands; expenditure for the Chickasaw war. (Ext.) 10 pp. AC., C 13, 21:245.

Abstract : April 15, 1736. New Orleans. Bienville and Salmon to the minister. Criminal conduct of Manne; lead from France received in bad condition; quality of pitch and tar shipments; arrival of carpenters, De Villers placed in charge of shipbuilding; acknowledge receipt of cables and anchors; pilots; Gerald\'s dishonest dealings in Island trade; English merchant ships at Mobile; supply of food to Pensacola; governor of Florida asks for guns for defense against English. 9 pp. AC., C 13, 21:7; 13 (duplicate); AE., Esp., 443:115 (ext.).

Abstract : June 3, 1736. New Orleans. Salmon to the minister. Pitch and tar industry; the apothecary, supply of medicine, and hospital patients; slaughter-house at New Orleans, animals shipped from Natchitoches; scarcity of food; shortage of salt; mediocre harvest. 8 pp. AC., C 13, 21a:256.

Abstract : June 10, 1736. New Orleans. Bienville and Salmon to the minister. Establishment of trade with Spaniards of Pensacola, Mexico, and Adayes; agriculture; tobacco, indigo, cotton, silk, hemp, and flax; need of Negroes; pitch and tar; trade with the Islands. 10 pp. AC., C 13, 21:25; 31 (abstract, with the minister\'s notes in the margin). (Miss.)

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