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10	The Louisiana Historical Quarterly
II.
D?Artaguette?s Analysis of the Charges under the Evidence.
Ministry of the Colonies, Series C. 13, General Correspondence of Louisiana, Vol. 2, pages 71 to 75; copy Vol. 2, pages 96 to 101. February 25th, 1708, Fort Louis. Mr. D?Artaguette. Memorandum of Mr. D?Artaguette concerning the reply to the complaints formulated by Mr. De La Salle on the 1st of October, 1706, against Mr. De Bienville, and which had been previously transmitted to Mr. De Pontchartrain.
(P. 71)
Memorandum serving as a reply to the complaints that Sieur De La' Salle [had] made on the first of October, 1706, which were sent to me by my lord the Count De Pontchartrain on July 28d, 1707.
ON THE FIRST ARTICLE
It appears by the evidence I have taken6 that there is no complaint at all of Sieur de Bienville. I shall make others in the future. I began with the inhabitants who seem to me the least interested in the private disputes.
ON THE SECOND ARTICLE
It does not appear to me that Sieur de Bienville has taken possession of his functions.
ON THE THIRD ARTICLE
This article is a fact. The truth will be seen in the testimony that I am sending to the Court and [in that] of those that I shall send later.
ON THE FOURTH ARTICLE
It is these backwoodsmen who give news of the Indians and keep us in their friendship, partly because the Indian?s horror is a man who gives him nothing and because these people always bring them something. When there are a.ny of them who behave badly towards them it is necessary to punish them. It is so much the more easy because they do not fail at all to (p. 72) take themselves every year to the fort for the arrival of the vessels.
ON THE FIFTH ARTICLE
It is the same with this article as with the articles above, the truth of which results from the testimonies taken and to be taken.
?The French is Les Informations que J?ay faites.