Amerique, 1763-1784 901 
1777, Apr. 15. Edit ^^ Portant etablissement a 
Versailles , d'un Depot des Papiers publics des Colonies 
(ff . 199-203) . 
1778, Jan. 11. Arret ^^ Pour la Police des Noirs, 
Mulatres , ou autres Gens de couleur qui sont dans la ville 
de Paris ; by declaration of Aug. 9, 1777, all colored 
persons entering France were to be deported, except those 
brought as servants or already resident; these latter to 
be registered; those so -registered must obtain a certificate 
within a month; punishment for failure to do so-deportation 
(f . 231) . 
1780, [n.s.]. Memoir on situation of French colonies, 
and present state of war with England; bears mostly on 
Santo Domingo; utility of attacks on British commerce (ff . 
233-244) . 
1781, Apr. 25. Bertrand de Saint-Ouen, political 
memoir on French colonies; relation of colonies to U.S.; 
trade and commerce (ff. 260-289). 
1782, Aug. 24. Lettres patentes _ 1 _ 1 _ L Concernant les 
Anoblissemens dans les Colonies _ J _ ii (ff . 316-319) . 
[Several letters, memoirs, drafts, etc. are included on 
this subject.] 
1783, June. Bruny, memoir on regulation of French 
commerce with U.S. as regards French colonies in America 
(ff . 359->375) . 
1783, [n.s.]. Memoir on provisioning of French 
colonies after peace is concluded; commerce between U.S. 
and French colonies (ff. 320-347). 
[See MVC, July 15, 1763.] 
17 (1784-1823) 
1763, July 15. Arrest _ : _ 1JL Qui fixe des Epoques pour 
le Payement des dettes des Colonies , contractees en France 
(ff . 173-174) . 
1784, Jan. 10, [n.s.]. Memoir on commerce of French 
colonies; regulated freedom of trade with U.S. should be 
granted colonies; balance of trade in objects produced in 
France in exportable quantities should favor France; articles 
to be supplied exclusively by France; exclusively by U.S.; 
jointly by two nations (ff. 5-9). 
Feb. 16. Dupont de Nemours, memoir on U.S. 
trade with French colonies, and on means of preserving for 
French merchants commerce in colonial products with foreign 
states (ff . 14-32) . 
Feb. 21. Dupont de Nemours, memoir on French 
colonial grain trade (ff. 38-46). 
Aug. 30. Arret _ iJt _ i _ concernant le Commerce 
etranger dans les Isles Francoises de 1* Amerique (ff . 53- 
57) . 
[1784], [n.s.]. Fragment of memoir on domestic com- 
merce of French islands and on their foreign trade with 
France and U.S. (ff. 47-52). 
