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Documents Covering Impeachment of Bienville
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other goods and that the powder that was sold at the warehouse belonged to the King?s powder-magazine.
Questioned whether he has nothing more to say on the subject of Sieurs d?Iberville, Bienville and Chateaugue, he said ?Yes,? that Sieur de Bienville once gave an Indian two pounds of powder to oblige him to say that he had sold to him a sword of the King.
Questioned whether he did not work at all while he was in the pay of the King for the private service of this family, he said ?Yes,? that he together with another gunsmith who was also in his Majesty?s pay set up thirty guns that they sold to the Spaniards for ten to twelve piastres each.
Questioned whether it is not true that these guns belonged to the King, he said ?No,? that they belonged to the late Mr. D?Iberville. (p. 312,).
Questioned whether it is not true that the King?s weapons have been ruined for lack of care because they were always busy in the service of the private business of these gentlemen, he said ?Yes? and that he has heard it said that more than three hundred guns had been lost and that he was directed to say to those who wished to buy them to send them to him and to assure them that they were good although they were worth nothing.
When the present interrogatory was read to him he declared that he neither wished to add to it nor to take from it and certified that it contained the truth, maintained it and signed with us. Thus signed, Boye. Collated with the original.
D?Artaguette.