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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 : November 20, 1731. Marly. Minister to Beauharnais [Beauharnois]. Grants passage to Louisiana on the Somme to four Ursulines, two Jesuits, and two servants, captains Renault d\'Hauterive and Merveilleux, and Ensigns Morrison and Montchervaux; freight allowed Renault. 2 pp. AC., B 55:230.

Abstract : August 26, 1732. Marly. Minister to Salmon. Instructions regarding Ursulines, number of sisters, quarters, hospital, and government support; pay of surgeons; officers, quarters; trade between Louisiana and French Islands. 3 pp. AC., B 57:794. (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 Bienville and Salmon. Louisiana troops, rations, disapproval of better conditions for Swiss than French, reduction in lard and flour from France, Illinois products, pay, and powder; funds for Ursuline orphanage at New Orleans; disapproval of house of correction, as the number of dissolute women is decreasing; relations of Jesuits and Capuchins, recall of Father Hyacinthe, his passage to France on the Gironde; supply of wine and brandy. 3 pp. AC., B 57:810. (LC.)

Abstract : February 5, 1732. Marly. Minister to the Bishop of Quimper. There is no place in Louisiana troops for Kernion Huchet [Huchet de Kernion], who is ineligible, since he owns a plantation near New Orleans; recommends him for a place in militia being organized by Governor Périer. 1 p. AC., B 56:12.

Abstract : May 13, 1740. Marly. Minister to Abbé de l\'Isle Dieu. Instructions regarding Capuchin missionaries to be sent to Rochefort to embark for Louisiana. 1p. AC., B 71:89.

Abstract : May 22, 1703. Rochefort. [Collinet to Villermont]. Plan to send a few reputable girls to the Mississippi, under the charge of Gray Nuns, to be married. 1p. BN., MSS. fr., 22812:126.

Abstract : June 27, 1724. New Orleans. Decree of the Superior Council, ordering the Capuchins to bury dead in the cemetery because of sanitary conditions. 2 pp. AC., A 23:48. (LC.)

Abstract : April 11, 1725. New Orleans. Decree of the Superior Council, prohibiting drinking and gambling during divine services. 2 pp. AC., A 23: 58. (LC.)

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