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Documents Covering Impeachment of Bienville 31
have bought some, how much and at what price, he said that he has no knowledge of it.
Questioned whether it is not true that they have sent them by the King?s vessels to be sold at Vera Cruz, he said that he knows nothing about it.
Questioned whether it is not true that on all the voyages the vessels have brought goods for the account of these two brothers, he said that he knows nothing about it.
Questioned whether it is not true that Sieur de Bienville had a ship?s boat dispatched after another that was carrying the letters of Mr. De La Vente, the curate, to the Aigle, he said that he has no knowledge of it. ?
Questioned whether it is not true that the ship?s boat dispatched by Sieur de Bienville having overtaken the one dispatched by Sieur de La Vente, he had the letters delivered to him, he said that he knows nothing about it.
Questioned whether he does not know the people who were in these ship?s boats, he said ?No.?
When the present interrogatory was read to him (p. 301) he declared that it contained the truth, that he did not wish to add to it or to take from it and he declared that he did not know how to sign his name or to write [and asked that] he be questioned.33
Collated with the original.
D?Artaguette. (p. 303)34
Louisiana
Interrogatory officially held by order of my lord the Count de Pontchartrain by us, Commissary of the Navy, sent by order of the Court to the inhabitants of this toivn.
OF THE 27th OF FEBRUARY, 170S.
Questioned as to his name, surname, age, quality and religion, he said, after having taken and received the oath required and customary in the case by which he promised to tell the truth, that his name is Rene Boyer, aged thirty-two, a gunsmith, an inhabitant who had left the pay of the King on the first of last January, and that he was of the Catholic, Apostolic and Roman religion.
FACTS CONTAINED IN MY FIRST INSTRUCTIONS.
OF THE 30th OF JUNE, 1707.
Questioned whether he has no knowledge of the voyages that the King?s vessels have made to sea, he said ?No.?
Questioned whether he has not sent goods belonging to him on these vessels to the ports of Mexico, of what they consisted and what return he got from them, he said ?No.?
?The translation is uncertain. The French is de ce faire interpelU.
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