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Abstract : [ca. 1761]. Memoir on necessities the king must accord to Louisiana for twenty years to sustain the colony; exemption from duty in France of peltries, silk, wool, lead, tin, etc. 1p. AC., C 13c, 1:310.

Abstract : [1726]. Memoir [by Bienville] on Louisiana. Administration of colonial affairs; criticism of the form of government; the commandant general; clerks at Balize, Illinois, and Mobile; engineers; justice; the conseil de régie, its composition; posts at Balize, Mobile, Fort Toulouse, Natchez, Arkansas, Yazoo, Illinois, Missouri, and Natchitoches; need of others; commerce with Spaniards of Pensacola, Adayes, and the Islands; products, indigo, rice, pitch, tar, and tobacco; mines; lumber; Negroes; concessions; Indian affairs. 65 pp. AC., C 13c, l: 362, 387. (LC.)

Abstract : [ca. 1731]. Memoir on Louisiana. Indian wars; fortifications; troops; annual expenses; Indian trade; Spanish commerce; plantations; cultivation of rice, indigo, cotton, hemp, and flax; tar, pitch and silk. 11 pp. AC., C 13c, 1:261.

Abstract : November 24, 1721. New Orleans. Census of New Orleans and of settlements in its vicinity. (Enumeration of men, women, children, French servants, Indian and Negro slaves, cattle, and horses; report on soil, rice, corn, wheat, grains, indigo, silk, lumber; Mississippi floods. Plantations: name of owner, location, name of overseer, number of workmen; size and kind of last harvest; fortifications.) 15 pp. AC., G 1, 464:n.p. (LC.) BN., MSS.fr., n.a., 9300:261 (Margry\'s copy, dated March, 1722).

Abstract : January 13, 1744. Versailles. Minister to Salmon. Instructions for shipments to France of mulberry plants and seed; Fabry or Piot de Launay for work with troops; disapproval of Barbier as attorney for estates; bills of exchange drawn on Valiet. 2pp. AC., B 78: 449. (LC.)

Abstract : October 13, 1741. VersaIlles. Minister to Salmon. Value of Louisiana lumber sent to France; pardon to Gauvin; finances of the colony; passage to Louisiana for wives of Latioles, Coquelin, and Bordelar; expenses for rationing Karrer\'s troops. Shipment of mulberry seed and plants from Louisiana. 2pp. AC., B 72:486. (LC.)

Abstract : October 17, 1740. Fontainebleau. Minister to Salmon. Workmen; carpenters; escheat to Breton. Pardons Clérc for the killing of Tousp; Vanderheck\'s affair; shipments to France of lumber and mulberry seed; medicine for the colony; Prat made a councillor. 2pp. AC., B 70:455. (LC.)

Abstract : December 26, 1739. Versailles. Minister to Salmon. To send seed from Louisiana mulberry-trees to Ricouart, to be planted in France. 1p. AC. , B 68:427. (LC.)

Abstract : September 19, 1712. Versailles. Minister to Desmaretz. Question of exempting Louisiana silk from certain duties. 1p. AC., B 34:127. (LC.)

Abstract : September 2, 1734. Versailles. Minister to Bienville and Salmon. Trade with Spaniards at Pensacola, Balize, Dauphin Island, Mexico, and Natchitoches; tobacco; Jesuit indigo; pitch and tar; procuring of Negroes; peltries; silk industry; hemp and flaxseed; Beaubois\' cotton-gin; Fayet\'s trade with French Islands. 9 pp. AC., B 61:650. (LC.)

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