86 AUDUBON, THE NATURALIST 
citizen Jean Audubon, leutenant 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,'® No, 39, in the city and commune of 
Nantes, department of Loire inférieure: 
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- 
férieure, living at the town of Les Cayes, in the southern section 
of the island of Santo Domingo, opposite Ie 4 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 Ie 4 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,'’ the twelve thousand six hundred francs that 
*°This house was rented at the time to Francoise Mocquard (see 
Note 7, Vol. I, p. 57), but it is probable that Lieutenant Audubon had 
reserved rocms which were occupied during his visits to the city while 
his permanent home was at Couéron. 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.” 
* Presumably a widow of one of the Coyrons (or Coironds), mer- 
