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PHILIP SAUC!^ OBTAINS TITLE
TO BAYOU DeLISLE LAND PROVIDED HE BUILDS ROAD,
CLEARS LAND, AND OCCUPIES LAND WITHIN ONE YEAR July 16, 179I+
Source:	Copy	of	Spanish	Records	(translated)
in possession of V. James Stevens received from Gulf Regional Planning Commission - Anril 10,	1973
To	his Excellency the Governor add Intendant General,
Philip Saucier, an inhabitant of this jurisdiction, with the most prfound respect represents to your Excellency and says:
That there is a tract of vacant land situated on	Bay Saint Louis
on	a	Bayou called de Lisle, having a front of tventy	arpens	on said
Bayou, bounded on the South West by land belonging to Bartholemis Grelot, and on the North East by vacant land which said tract of land has until the present time been claimed by any persons.
Your petitioner, therefore, most humbly requests that your Excellency may be pleased to grant the ? said tract tof land to your petitioner, and to order that the necessary titles may be filled in his favour from the Secretary's office of His Government.
Wherefore, your petitioner entreats your Excellency to grant the land prayed for and in so doing he will receive grateful thanks.
Mobile, sixth of July, one thousand seven hundred and ninety four.
(signed) PHILIP SAUCIER
To his Excellency the Governor and Intendant General,
From the information which I have received from many of the inhabitants residing on the Bay of Saint Louis, it apriears evident that the land prayed for by the Petitioner is vacant and does not belong to any person; and the petitioner is prepared to enter upon the cultivation of the said land. It does not appear to me that any inconvenience can arise from granting to him the number of arpens for which he prays a title, provided it is agreeable to your Excellency to take that course on the petition.
Kobile, seventh day of July in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety four.
(signed) MANUEL de Sauza (Seal)
Nev Orleans, Sixteenth day of July, one thousand seven hundred and ninety four:
Charles Saveau Trieman, Surveyor General of this Province, vill find the petitioner in possession of the tract of land containing twenty aruens in front by the usual deoth of forty which he solicits at this spot.designated in the forwarding memorial provided the same is vacant and without causing injury to a third person, since the