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12
The Louisiana Historical Quarterly
ON THE FOURTEENTH ARTICLE
This man is here and he is poor. When anything is done for him he will be made to pay.
ON THE FIFTEENTH ARTICLE
I shall investigate this article and I shall render an account of it. (p.74).
ON THE SIXTEENTH ARTICLE
The commerce that has been carried on and that which it will still be possible to carry on as long as this colony is no further advanced can result only from the funds that have been provided in money.9 On the arrival of the vessels it was the custom to pay each one the balance due him. All those in the King?s pay paid where they owed and with the remainder bought clothes for their use on board these same vessels at the price at which they were willing to sell to them, which doubtless has always been excessive; so, very far from being able to buy merchandise to trade with the Spaniards, they have always found themselves in debt as they still are to-day.
ON THE SEVENTEENTH ARTICLE
The private quarrels that Sieur de Bienville, the Commandant, and Sieur de La Salle, performing the functions of Commissary, have given ground, as I can discover, to many facts which this latter has set forth. He complains that a soldier of Vaulezard?s 10 company stole goods to the value of 162 livres, which were received and concealed by an inhabitant. This inhabitant was condemned to pay this sum and a fine of 138 livres. It seems to me that he ought to be satisfied with this justice, (p. 75).
He complains that the warehouses are open at all hours of the day. He merely had to order as I did that they shall be open from two11 in the afternoon until five in the winter and in summer from seven until ten and from three in the afternoon until six. When that has once been made known those who need anything will conform to it.
ON THE EIGHTEENTH ARTICLE
As for the building that the late Sieur D ?Iberville had had begun in 1702, the man named Le Rouj^an assistant shipbiulder of Rochefort, had begun it with the ca^enters from the vessels. This man went back to France with Mr. D?Iberville. He left it uncompleted and no workmen have been found here at all who have been able to finish it. It is decayed.
?The French is ne peut provenir que des fonds qui ont ete porttz en argent.
JftThis name is variously spelled Vaulezart, Vaulezard, Volezard; it appears here as Yaulezar.
nThe copyist ca'ls attention by a ?sic? to the fact that the word heures, corresponding to ?o?clock? in English, is omitted throughout this passage.