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intendants, laying before them all thefe fadts above- 
mentioned ; their juft apprehenfions ; the public 
good; the trouble, that this diftruft caufed in this 
colony ; the complaints and hatred, that thefe ac- 
cufations occafioned among them ; the laws made 
formerly againft fuch leprous perfons, and their ex- 
pulfion from civil fociety. They required a general 
viiitation of all perfons fufpe&ed of this diftemper, 
that fuch, as were found infedted, might be re- 
moved into particular hofpitals, or into fome feparate 
places. 
Thefe memorials were fent to court, which, giving 
due attention to thefe juft: reprefentations, iflued or- 
ders for the required vifitations in the moft conve- 
nient manner, for the good of the public and of the 
ftate. 
In the mean time, the poft of phyfician-botanift 
became vacant in the ifland of Cayenne. The mini- 
fter was pleafed to name me for it ; and altho’ this 
ifland was much more fertile in philofophical difeo- 
veries than all the others, he thought proper to 
change my deftination, and fent me to this ifle 
Guadaloupe ; and did not forget the article of the 
leprofy in my inftrudtions. 
When I arrived at Martinico in 1727, Monfieur 
Blondel de Juvencourt, then intendant of the French 
ifles, communicated to me both the orders of the 
court, and all the memoirs, that related to this 
affair. A tax was then laid upon the Negroes of the 
inhabitants of the Grande Terre, to raife a neceffary 
fund for this viiitation, thus made at the expence of 
the colony; and Monf. le Mercier Beaufoleil was 
chofen treafurer of this fund. 
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