Amerique, 1662-1769 891 
1765, Oct. 18. Order concerning paillasses aboard 
vessels engaged in cod fisheries (ff. 412-413). 
Printed Royal Letters Patent 
1768, May 1. Granting freedom of commerce for twelve 
years to Cayenne and French Guiana (ff . 483-486) . 
1769, Mar. 12. Concerning liquidation of Canadian 
obligations (ff. 487-492). 
Other Material 
1662, Mar. 13. Extract of letter from d'Estrades, 
used by English to prove that former boundaries of Acadia 
were not confined to Peninsula (f. 160). 
1753, May. Statement of British expenditures for 
Nova Scotia from 1749 to 1753 (ff. 48-54). 
July 3. Extract of letter published in London 
newspapers; affairs in Halifax and Nova Scotia (ff. 70-72). 
1753, Memo ire signifie . Pour l'Eveque de Quebec , au 
sujet de son intervention dans 1' Instance d'entre le 
Chapitre et le Seminaire de la meme Ville (ff . 118-121) . 
[1753?], Cn.s.]. Memoir on La.; bad condition of 
colony; commerce; merchandise for Spanish trade; gloomy 
outlook for merchants; need of negroes; comparison with 
Martinique and Santo Domingo; mines (ff. 42-45). 
1754, Feb. 12. Extract from letter from Charleston, 
S. C, published in British papers; respecting English in 
Isles Turques and their removal of marks of French posses- 
sion (ff . 122-123) . 
June 21, Cn.s.]. Account of affairs in North 
America; British in Ohio and Mississippi valleys; Jumon- 
ville affair; communications between Canada and La.; 
British Indian policy; Dusquesne's activities (ff. 126- 
128) . 
July 3. Capitulation of Fort Necessity (ff. 
135-136, 139-140) . 
July 24. Dusquesne to [?], French moderation 
towards British (ff . 137-138) ; enclosing: campaign journal 
of Coulon de Villiers, June 26-July 7, 1754; surrender of 
Fort Necessity; Jumonville affair (ff . 129-132) ; June 27, 
1754, decision as to course of action in avenging death 
of Jumonville, taken at a conference among French off icers 
on Ohio (ff . 133-134) . 
Sept. 4. Account of capture of Fort Necessity, 
taken from London Gazette (f. 144). 
Oct. 28. Duquesne to Machault, affairs on 
upper Ohio (ff. 147-148). 
Dec. 9, 17. British newspaper clippings, with 
translations, concerning funds voted by colonies for 
expedition against Fort Duquesne (f . 153) . 
1755, July 2-7. Extracts of Letters from Vaudreuil, 
Duquesne, Bigot, Dieskau to Machault, concerning expedition 
of Virginia troops against Belle Riviere (ff. 162-166). 
Aug. 20. Soliz to Vaudreuil, complaint against 
Marseillan, who sets himself up as governor of Gulf of 
Darien (f . 168) . 
