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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.)

Abstract : September 9, 1734. Versailles. Minister to Bienville and Salmon. The Charente instead of the Gironde destined for Louisiana; date for departure, cargo, tobacco for return; European war; to follow letters patent of 1727. 1p. AC., B 61:667. (LC.)

Abstract : September 8, 1733. Versailles. Minister to Bienville and Salmon. Cultivation of rice, wheat and other grain, vines, sugar cane, indigo, cotton, tobacco, hemp, and flax; pitch and tar; French commerce with Mobile and New Orleans. 4 pp. AC., B 59:581. (LC.)

Abstract : September 16, 1733. Versailles. Minister to Bienville and Salmon. Decision of the farmers general on Louisiana tobacco; visit of the bishop of Quebec to Louisiana; settlement of Capuchin-Jesuit trouble; Capuchin missionaries. 2 pp. AC., B 59:619. (LC.)

Abstract : September 2, 1721. Paris. Regulations of the commissioners, regarding prices of Negroes, tobacco, rice, merchandise, copper money, division of Louisiana into districts, the church, government, etc. (In twelve articles, with marginal notes.) 9 pp. AC., A 23:30; AC., C 13, 6:238. (LC.); AC., B 43:83; BN., MSS.Moreau, 1396: 214; BMM., MS.73, vol. 13:145 (printed). La. H.C., III. 101(under wrong date).

Abstract : September 5, 1721. Paris. Regulations of the commissioners, for the administration of Louisiana by a council for the Company of the Indies, Composition and power of the council; troops; hospitals; duties of clerks and of directors; merchandise and prices; settlers; police; division of the colony into nine districts; navigation on the Mississippi; Indian presents; trade and plantations of officers of the company; fortifications; public works; artillery; agriculture, tobacco, rice, etc; Negroes; religion. 44 pp. AC., B 43:11; C 13, 6:196 (82 pp.). (Ill., LC., Miss.)

Abstract : July 27, 1728. Paris. Instructions for Lunel, chosen by Company of the Indies to teach the farmers of Louisiana how to grow and prepare tobacco for shipment. 5 pp. AC., B 43:736. (LC.)

Abstract : September 30, 1726. Paris. Memoir of Company of the Indies to serve as instructions for Périer as commandant general of Louisiana. Change in colonial authority to prevent strife between military and civil officials, Périer to be in charge of civil administration, La Chaise of justice, both directly responsible to the Company of the Indies; work at Mobile tobacco, indigo, pitch, tar, and Spanish trade; peltries; hostilities between Chickasaws and Choctaws; colonial boats; mouth of the Mississippi; engineers and their work; armories; inventory of artillery; arsenal at New Orleans; carpenters; hospital at New Orleans; posts at Natchez, Arkansas, Wabash, Illinois, and Natchitoches; Foxes; garrisons; police; slave trade; cattle from Spaniards; the superior council; Jesuits and Capuchins. 50 pp. AC., B 43:655; C 13b, 1:n.p. (LC.) MC., C 2, 17:134. Margry, VI. 452, 658(extracts).

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 : May 14, 1717. Memoir on Louisiana, by Crozat. Origin and importance of the colony; products; Spanish treatment of Indians; Illinois mines; settlers; Indian affairs; expenses; commerce; tax on price paid for his trading privileges; attitude of English and Dutch; tobacco; trade with New Spain. 29 pp. AE., Mém. et Doc., Amér., 1:225.

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