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Titre : Annual report of the Bureau of American ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian institution
Auteur : Bureau of American ethnology (Washington, D.C.). Auteur du texte
Éditeur : Government printing office (Washington)
Date d'édition : 1896
Contributeur : Powell, John Wesley (1834-1902). Directeur de publication
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Type : publication en série imprimée
Langue : anglais
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Description : 1896
Description : 1896 (N18,PART2)-1897.
Description : Note : Index.
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Date de mise en ligne : 15/10/2007
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these present letters and forever, all the lands, çoasts,. ports, havens, and islands which compose our province of Lonisiana, in the same way and extent as we have granted them to M. Crozat by our letters patent of 14th September 1712, to enjoy the same in full property, seigniory, aud jurisdiction, keeping to ourselves no other rights or duties than the fealty and liege homage the said company shall be bound to pay us and to the kings onr successors at every new reign, with a golden crown of the weight of thirty marks.
SEC. VI. The,said company shall be free, in the said granted lands, to negotiate and make alliance in our name with all the nations of the land, except those which are dependent on thé other powers of Europe; she may agree with them on such conditions as she may think fit, to settle among them, and trade freely with them, and in case they iusult her she may declare war against them, attack them or defend berself by means of arma, and negotiate with them for peace or for a trace; By section 8 authority is given to .the company "to sell and give away the lands granted to her for whatever quit or ground rent she may think fit, and even to grant them in freebold, without jurisdiction or seigniory."
lu section 53 it is declared
Whereas in the settlement of the lands granted to the said company by these present letters we have chiefly in view the glory of God by procuriug the salvation of thé Indian savage and negro inhabitants whom we wish to be instructed in the true religion, the said comr.any shall be bound to build churches at her expense in the places of her settlements. as likewise to maintain there as many approved clergymen as may be necessary.
Substantially the same privileges, powers, and requirements were provided for in the grant made ninety years before (April, 1627), through Cardinal Richelien's influence, to the Company of One Hundred Associates, while France was struggliug, through the leadership of Champlain, to obtain a permanent settlement on the St Lawrence.1 Although these are the strongest passages having any bearing on the point indicated which have been found in the early grants, it must be admitted that référence to the Indian title is only to be inferred. The policy both in Louisiana and Canada seems to hâve been to take possession, at first, of those points at which they desired to make settlements by peaceable measures if possible, though without any pretense of purchase, thus obtaining a foothold. Either preceding or following such settlement, a treaty was made with the tribe, obtaining their consent to corne under the dominion of the King of France and acknowledging him as the only rightful rnler over themselves and their territory.
As an illustration of this statement, attention is called to the following paragraph:2 2
What is more authentic in this matter is the entry into possession of all those Countries made by Mr. Talon, Intendant of New France, who in 1671, sent Sieur de St. Lusson, his Subdelegate, into the country of the Stauas, who invited the Deputies of all the tribes within a circumference of more than a liundred leagues to meet J. G. Shea, Charlevoix's Hist. New France, vol. n, p. 39.
SDenonville,Memoir on the Prerich Limits in North America, New York Colonial Documents, vol. IX, p. 383.