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| Abstract : June 3-4, 1729. Paris. Minutes of meetings of directors of the Company of the Indies. Shipment of deerskins on same basis as tobacco and beaver skins; soldiers; dredges; New Orleans public works; Mandeville's death, his place given to Louboey; shipbuilders; hemp; Natchez fortifications; land grants; Negroes for farmers; Illinois garrison; Secretary Chavannes recalled, Guy put in his place; peltry trade to go to New Orleans to thwart independent traders; movement of company's ships; secret deliberations of the Conseil de Régie; Fox war; exchange of furniture for sugar with islands; advance of salary to Montigny and Jantzen; surgeons for posts; gunsmith Pinet supplies guns to officials; pilots; rations for Negroes; orphans; Indian trade; Diron's Choctaw trade; powder; passports for Pinet's wife and slaves; tobacco; La Chaise's plantations; brickyard; Ursulines; silk industry. 10 pp. AC., C 13, 11:346. |
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| Abstract : April 14, 1718. Paris. Ordinance of Company of the West, regarding commerce of Louisiana: French merchandise; colonial products, tobacco, rice, silk; deerskins; domestic trade. 4 pp. AC., B 42bis:236. (LC.) AC., F 3, 241:n.p. |
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| Abstract : [1720. Paris.] Memoir by Company of the Indies, on Louisiana and the establishment of plantations there. Location; climate; Indians; the Mississippi River; cultivation of tobacco, silk, rice and indigo; pitch and tar; Indian trade; transportation to Louisiana; land grants to the noblesse and others; need of plantations as regards money, workmen, Negroes, Indians, utensils, provisions, and management. 24 pp. AC., C 13c, 1:333. |
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| Abstract : [March 25, 1758.] Versailles. [Royal memoir], defining the respective powers of Kerlérec and Rochemore and stating in what branches of government they are to act conjointly: military affairs; Indians; fortifications; artillery; navigation; finances; justice; land grants; police; agricultural matters, indigo, rice, cotton, silk, tobacco; making of pitch and tar; commerce with France, Spain, and islands; religion; hospitals. 18pp. AC., C 13, 40:4.(Miss.) |
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| Abstract : September 20, 1718. [Versailles.] Bobé to Delisle. Samples of silk and cotton taken from Louisiana; copy of a letter, New Orleans, June 1, 1718, from a clerk of the company, on clearing of land at New Orleans; number and location of farmers; various establishments, Alibamons, Natchez, Natchitoches, Illinois, etc. 3 pp. ASH., 115-16:no.4. (LC.) |
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