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Documents Covering Impeachment of Bienville
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Bienville bought some brandies from Mr. De Noyan without knowing the quantity nor for how much nor whence they came.
Questioned whether it is not true that they sent them by the King?s vessels to be sold at Vera Cruz, he said that he knows nothing about it, but that he had heard it said that he had sold some here.
Questioned whether it is not true that on all the voyages the vessels have brought goods for the account of these two brothers, (p. 277) he said that he knows nothing about it.
Questioned whether it is not true that Sieur de Bienville dispatched a ship?s boat after another that was carrying the letters of Mr. La Mente, the curate, to the Aigle, he said that he has no knowledge of it at all.
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 knew nothing about it.
Questioned whether he does not know the people who were in these ship?s boats, he said ?No.?
The present interrogatory having been read to him, he said that it contained the truth, maintained it and signed with us. Thus signed: J. B. La Loire.
Collated with the original.
D?Artaguette.
(p. 279)25	Louisiana
Interrogatory officially held by my lord the Count de Pontchar-train by us, a commissary of the Navy, sent by order of the Court to the inhabitants of this town.
OP FEBRUARY 25th, 1708.
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 Guillaume Boutin, an inhabitant, aged thirty-one years, of the Catholic, Apostolic and Roman religion. '
FACTS CONTAINED IN MY FIRST INSTRUCTIONS.
OF JUNE 30th, 1707.
Questioned whether he has no knowledge of the voyages that the King?s vessels have made to the sea, he said that he knows that one of- them was sent to the Mississippi to get some cattle belonging to the inhabitants and that it was lost while entering the port of Massacre [Island].
Questioned whether he did not send some 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.? (p. 280).
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