86 AUDUBON, THE NATURALIST 



citizen Jean Audubon, lieutenant of frigate, retired, and pro- 

 prietor at Santo Domingo, aged 59 years, infirm and unable 

 in consequence of his infirmities to go himself to attend to his 

 business affairs in Santo Domingo, living in Rubens Street, in 

 the Mocquard house, 10 No. 39, in the city and commune of 

 Nantes, department of Loire inferieure: 



Who has made and constituted for his general and special 

 attorney Jean Francois Blanchard, merchant, and originally 

 from the commune of Chataubriand, department of Loire in- 

 ferieure, living at the town of Les Cayes, in the southern section 

 of the island of Santo Domingo, opposite He a Vaches, to whom 

 he gives full and complete powers to revoke for him, and in 

 his name, every preceding bill of attorney, for the purpose of 

 managing the stores [magazins] at Les Cayes, in the southern 

 part of Santo Domingo, opposite He a Vaches : To demand and 

 obtain all accounts from the holders of said properties, who 

 have had or still have charge of them there; to examine the 

 said accounts, to debate, close up and stop them ... to lease 

 the said properties, without the power of making any exten- 

 sive repairs to them whatsoever, about which he had not in- 

 formed the constituent in France, and that he has not author- 

 ized him there to do, at least by a special letter, it being under- 

 stood that the actual tenant is obliged to make all the neces- 

 sary repairs to the said houses and stores to the extent of 

 15,000 francs, and he should not use more than 4,000 francs 

 yearly for the space of five years, counting from the month of 

 thermidor, year 8 [July 19-August 17, 1800]. 



It is demanded of citizeness Fauveau, or of her assigns, to 

 know the reason why she has failed, to the present moment, to 

 pay to the constituent in France for the domicile of the citi- 

 zeness Coyron, 17 the twelve thousand six hundred francs that 



16 This house was rented at the time to Francoise Mocquard (see 

 Note 7, Vol. I, p. 57), hut it is prohahle that Lieutenant Auduhon had 

 reserved rooms which were occupied during his visits to the city while 

 his permanent home was at Coueron. In the power of attorney issued 

 by Jean Audubon, his wife, and Claude Francois Rozier, at Nantes, April 

 4, 1806, the senior Audubon gave his residence as "rue Rubens, No. 39. 



17 Presumably a widow of one of the Coyrons Cor Coironds), mer- 



