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THE AUSTIN PAPERS.
LE.AD SHIPMENTS
. • :May 1800 Shipped on Board a Boat under my -Command,-belonging to Doctor George Fisher and myself, twenty five Keggs and seven Cases, said to weigh Seven thousand and three hundred pounds french weight of Shot, and one thousand and Eleven pounds french weight and one thousand three hundred and sixty pounds and a half English weight of Bar lead- All of which I will deliver to :Mr. vVilliam Stephens :Merchant new orleans, the Dangers of the river excepted, he paying freight therefor at the Rate of one Dollar for every hundred pounds-of this Bill of lading I have signed Dupli- cates, one whereof being fulfilled the other to be void-vVitness my hand St Genvieve 28 th
J 01:IN FISHER.
7300 lbs Shott- 1011 lbs French bar lend 13G0½ lbs English D 0 D 0
Receved the within Nombur of Packages of shoat Content un- known and the within Spesifayecl Qantaty of Lead acordingly to the vVithin Receat New orlens J oulay 14th 1800 wm. STEPHEN
ANTOINE SOULARD TO ~I. AUSTIN
~t Louis, June the 30th, lROO.
Sir [From what] you told me I expected to have seen you soon after I came up, You would have found Mr· [undecipherable] who is to Set out in a few days and will be the Bearer of this. after having made to ]\,rr. Iieut 0 • Governor an official return of the Sunrey of Your Land, I freely dcliver'd to him my private opinion on the matter, and I con- fidentially say, that the Survey which has been made, will stand as it is without any alteration, 'till the decision of the Government General. -and the business cannot be brought there, unless the Inhabitants concerned can prove in writing that the manner in which your Land was Survey'd is prejudicial and ruinous to them: I likewise belie,·e th.at M. Delnssus will inform in your favor. a friend of mine being now with me, enables me to Speak to you Somewhat more openly than I could have done otherwise. I have no doubt but that you will Judge rightly of My J\iotives, and keep all this between Ourselves- In the course of next month I shall draw on You for 150 D 118 • in lead @ 5 dols pH in favor of Mr· Puscal-Detchemendy nnd Should
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