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10a. Translation of the Power of Attorney issued by Jean 

 Audubon, Anne Moinet Audubon, and Claude Francois 

 Rozier to Jean Audubon and Ferdinand Rozier, April 

 1806. 



[stamp] j n presence of Royer and his colleague, notaries, 

 J 7 ' 5 ' living at Nantes, department of the Loire-inferi- 



cen cure, undersigned, have appeared 



Sieur Jean Audubon, capitalist, and Madame Anne Moinet, his 

 wife, whom he authorizes [to act], living at Number 39, rue 

 Rubens, and Monsieur Claude Fra^ois Rozier, of rue de la 

 Fosse, all three of the commune of Nantes : who empower, to 

 act as their general and special attorneys, Jean Audubon, the 

 younger, and Ferdinand Rozier, the son, to whom, jointly and 

 severally, they give authority and warrant of attorney to make, 

 for and in the best interest of the grantors, all settlements of 

 accounts, assignments of credits, recoveries of debts, payments, 

 and other analogous acts with all tenants, representatives, 

 debtors and creditors of the grantors in the United States of 

 America ; to go into court, settle, compromise, receive, to give 

 receipts, to renew [loans or notes], to grant time, to expedite, 

 and in general to do for their benefit all that shall seem to 

 them most fitting; the whole, according to the instructions, 

 papers, and documents relating thereto, which have been, are, 

 or shall be furnished them, as well by the grantors as by their 

 previous agents and attorneys in the aforesaid United States, 

 to govern, conduct, and administer the half, belonging to the 

 grantors, of the farm of Mill Grove in Pennsylvania, as well 

 as to exploit, or cause to be exploited the lead mine recently 

 discovered on the said farm; to consult, in every important 

 matter, Mr. Miers Fisher, merchant at Philadelphia, as a 

 common friend and good counsellor ; to keep all necessary books 

 and registers ; at the end of each year, or sooner, to strike the 

 balance of receipts and expenses for the control of the said 

 farm and the exploitation of the mine, should there be reason 

 for it; to sell at prices, charges, stipulations, and conditions, 



