Amerique 
1 (1712-1725) 
[1713-1716], [n.s.]. .Statement of sums advanced 
annually by company of La. for king, and for which re- 
payment is due (ff. 437-438). 
1716, Feb. 8, [n.s.]. Memoir on La.; settlement; 
resources; possibilities; plan for colony's reinforce- 
ment and development; one hundred convicts, one hundred 
women annually; more troops required; in favor of Crozat 
(ff . 52-67) . 
Sept. 28. Crozat to Marine Council, enclosing 
memoir on Mississippi mines, just received from La. (ff. 
275-276); enclosing: [1716], [n.s.], memoir on gold, 
silver, lead, and copper mines newly discovered in La. 
and Illinois (ff. 277-279). 
[1716-1717?]. Le Bartz, two memoirs on La. and means 
of extracting greatest profit from colony; forts; land 
grants; justice; tobacco; mines; gold on Missouri; Spanish 
ill-treatment of Indians; French Indian policy; commerce 
and development; second memoir deals with union of Canada 
and La. ; fur trade and competition from English in Carolina 
(ff. 156-175) . 
1717, Apr. 3, [n.s.]. Memoir on best means of building 
up La. colony; need of sending civilian, not a soldier, to 
La.; settlers; Illinois should be seat of government because 
of mines and central position; Bienville should persuade 
Indians to work mines; settlement at Manchac (ff . 280-286) . 
May 14. Crozat, two memoirs on La.; origins of 
colony; Spanish ill-treatment of Indians; Illinois mines; 
need for colonists; means of civilizing savages; necessary 
expenditures; organization of company; no commerce via St. 
Lawrence; British and Dutch uneasiness at Crozat' s monopoly; 
king should furnish settlers and defense; Crozat will super- 
vise exploitation; taxes on his ships too high; he envisions 
discovery of gold and silver, and growth of tobacco; com- 
munication with New Spain via Red River; value of mines he 
owns is superior to that of sums he requests (ff . 225-240) . 
May 19. Duche to Marine Council, account of 
his conferences with Legendre, Janury, Fenelon, and Moreau 
on La. affairs; drafting of proposed letters-patent and of 
general memoir; need of immediate aid for La.; Indians 
turning to British; protection of mines; settlers (ff. 313- 
316) ; enclosing: draft of letters-pat net to royal company 
of La. (ff . 388-408) . 
Aug. Lettres Patentes ^^ Portant Establisse- 
ment _ s _ Li de Compagnie d'Occident ^^ (ff . 409-418) [Dupli- 
cates in volume 6, ff. 203-212, and volume 7, ff. 33-42, 
this series.] 
Sept. 15. D'Orleans, approved list of directors 
of company of Occident (f . 419) . 
Sept. 24, 27. Bourgeois to Marine Council, two 
869 
