License of the Commissioners of Our Treasury, under the pain of confiscation thereof, and of the ships and vessels in which the same should be imported. Notwithstanding whereof, many of Our Subjects do employ and consume considerable quantities of Foreign Salt, upon domestic and ordinary uses, albeit the Salt made in this Kingdom be abundantly sufficient for the same, and that the commissioners appointed for managing of the Salt, are willing and ready to furnish and provide Our Subjects in all parts of the Kingdom with competent quantities of that Salt at reasonable rates. And seeing the intent of the foresaid Acts and Proclamations is like to be altogether frustrate, and the profitable Manufactory of Salt in this Kingdom will be exceedingly damnified, if the foresaid practice be not restrained for the future. Therefore, We, with the advice of the Lords of Our Privy Council, do hereby prohibite and discharge all Our Subjects of this Kingdom, after the first day of January next, in the year one thousand six hundred and seventy-three, to imploy or consume for domestic uses of any sort, any Foreign Salt, under the pain of twelve pounds Scots, to be applied to our behoove, for every Boll of Foreign Salt, and proportionally for any lesser quantity which shall be made use of by them, in manner foresaid and this but prejudice of the penalties provided by the foresaid Proclamations, against the importers of Foreign Salt. And ordains these presents to be printed and published at the Mercat-cross of Edinburgh, and other places needfull, that none pretend ignorance. Given at Our Palace of Holyrude house, the eighteenth day of September, one thousand six hundred and seventy-two, and of Our Reign the twenty-fourth year.

EDINBURGH: Printed by His Majestie's Printers, 1672.

AL. GIBSON, Cl. Sti-Concilii.

MARRIAGE CONTRACT BETWEEN MR. ROBERT NAVARRE AND MISS MARIE L'HOTEMONT-BARROIS, ETC.* *

Before the undersigned, Jacques Pean, Esquire, Seigneur de Livandière, Knight of the Military Order of St. Louis, Major of town and government of Quebec, commanding for the King in the Fort Pont Chartrain du Detroit Erie, and the Reverend Father Bonaventure, Franciscan friar, missionary at the said post. Were present Robert Navarre, son of Marie Francois Navarre and of Jeanne Pluyette, his father and mother, born in the parish of Villeroy, diocese of Meaux, in France,

*Translated by Rud. Worch and Dr. F. Krusty, editors of the Michigan Volksfreund Jackson, Mich.

And Mr. Francois L'Hotemont, called Barrois, and Demoiselle Marie Anne Sauvage, his wife, residents at the said post at Detroit, who stipulate for Marie L'Hotemont-Barrois, their daughter, who is present and accepts. And the said Robert Navarre and Marie L'Hotemont-Barrois, with the agreement of their parents and the following friends, on the part of the said Robert Navarre: of the above said Esquire Pean, of Mr. Duburont, Second Commander at Detroit, and of Mr. Duyveux, on the part of Marie L'Hotemont-Barrois: of her father and her mother, of Mr. and Mrs. De Roquetaittade, her grandparents on her mother's side, of Mr. Joseph Lequin de Laderoute, her uncle, on account of Francois Sauvage, her aunt on her mother's side, and of Charles Chesne, her uncle, on account of Catherine Sauvage, her aunt on her mother's side, and of the aforesaid Rev. Bonaventure, have promised and promise to take each other for husband and wife, by laws of marriage, and to have the same celebrated as soon as it may be done, and as shall be determined upon between them and their parents. The said couple shall be married in face of Our Mother, the Holy Catholic Apostolic and Roman Church, and have everything in common, personal property, earnings and real estate, according to the custom of Paris, which is followed in this country, and to which they refer and submit. In case they should live or acquire property in countries where custom should be contrary, the said future wife shall be endowed by the said future husband in the sum of three thousand livres, which shall not be deducted from her dower proper.

The surviving party shall in either case have in preferred claim upon the estate of their future common property up to the sum of two thousand livres, according to an inventory to be taken by them and to an estimate to be made before the division and without auction, or in ready cash, at the choice of the survivor.

The said future husband, with his present and future rights and titles, takes the said future wife, and they have agreed with each other that in case the pre-decease of one of them shall arrive without their having any children, the share which they shall have in the said common property, shall remain and properly belong to the survivor, without his being obliged to render account of said share to the parents or heirs of the pre-deceased, they making each other a present in fee simple, in the best form in which a donation can legally be made; and in case the dissolution of the future marriage shall take place, by the decease of the future husband, the future wife shall have the choice of accepting the said future common property or rejecting and renouncing the same, to take away frank and free, all that she shall have brought in, as her dower, as well as her preferred claim, together with her

clothing, linen and other things for her use, with her furniture; and in general all that which shall have come to her, or been left her, during the said future marriage, be it by succession, donation or otherwise. All this shall be reciprocal to the future husband, in case of the decease of the said future wife; and for the execution of these presents the said future married couple have made and constituted the bearer of this their procurator, to whom they gave power for them and in their name, to have the said donation recorded in the Royal Court, at Montreal. For such has been agreed and stipulated by the said parties, each promising legally and obliging and renouncing, and made and delivered at the Fort Pont Chartrain du Detroit, Erie, in the house of the said Mr. Pean, the tenth day of the month of February, one thousand seven hundred and thirty-four, at which day they have signed, the persons who are hereafter named: Mr. and Mrs. Barróis and Madame Seguin de Laderoute, having declared that they cannot write with their own hands, and having made their ordinary mark, after this document had been read to them.

(Signed) Marie L'Hotemont, Robert Navarre, Pean de Livandière, J. Bte. Laderoute (led), C. Sauvage, Duburont, Francois Bonaventure, Duyneaux, F. L. Raimbault.

To-day, on the seventh of May, one thousand seven hundred thirty-four, at eight o'clock A. M., before the Royal Notary in the Royal Jurisdiction of Montreal, Has appeared, Francois L'Hotemane, called Barrois, bearer of the contract of the marriage between Robert Navarre and Marie L'HotemaneBarrois, made before Jacques Pean, Esquire, Seigneur de Livandiére, Knight of the Military Order of St. Louis, Major of town and government of Quebec, commanding for the King in the Fort Pont Chartrain du Detroit, Erie, which said Barrois in the name and as procurator of the said Navarre and Marie Barrois has said and declared, that the parties have voluntarily agreed in presence of their parents and friends to the clauses, conditions, and conventions mentioned in said marriage contract, which remains on file with the records of our notary office so that recourse may be had to it, if occasion requires, and they are willing and consent, that it be executed according to its form and contents, as if the said contract had been delivered before myself, and said donation therein explained avails to the profit of the survivor, in the case that on the day of the decease of the dying there be no children born or expected from the said future marriage.

For this purpose, and promising, and binding, and renouncing, and in

order to have recorded the said marriage contract and these presents in the Royal Court at Montreal, and wherever else it may be necessary, in the interest of this said future married couple, the said parties have made and constituted the bearer of these presents their procurator, to whom they gave power to have them recorded and to require act made and delivered at the said Montreal office of the said Notary. The day and year above mentioned, in presence of Mr. Benoit and Jean Bte. Sener as witnesses, both residing at said Montreal, who have signed to the minutes of these presents in the name of the above named Barrois, after hearing them read.

To all to whom these presents may come, greeting: In the name of Pierre Raimbault, Royal Counselor and Lieutenant General, civil and criminal, at the seat of the royal jurisdiction of Montreal, be it known that this day and date of these presents, in open court, has appeared Mr. Francois L'Hotemane, called Barrois, bearer of the Marriage Contract between Robert Navarre and Marie L'Hotemane-Barrois, taken before Jacques Pean, Esquire, Seigneur de Livandiére, knight of the military Order of St. Louis, major of the town and government of Quebec, commanding for the king at the Fort Pontchartrain du Detroit, Erie, this tenth day of February last and filed with the notarial records of Mr. Claude Portier, Royal Notary and Clerk of the Court of our jurisdiction, containing a donation pure and simple for life between living persons and irrevocable in favor of the survivor of them who accept both and either [jointly and severally] the personal property and real estate, present and future, to enjoy them during life, as is more at length set forth in the said marriage contract, and has requested us to order it to be recorded. We, having taken cognizance of the said marriage contract of the tenth of February last and the ratification of the same delivered before Mr. C. Portier, Royal Notary, to-day after hearing it read by our clerk of the Court in our court room, have ordered that the donation contained in the said marriage contract shall be recorded and registered on the register record

of this seat as above named, that they may be of use and value to the parties in law and equity, whereof we order act to be taken. Given at Montreal by us, the said Lieutenant-General, in open court, Friday, the seventh of May, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty-four.

C. PORTIER,

(Signed)

C. RAIMBAULT.

Clerk of the Court.

By order of Mr. Pierre Raimbault, Royal Counsellor, Lieutenant General, civil and criminal, at the seat of the Royal Court of Montreal, the donation contained in the marriage contract of Robert Navarre and Marie L'Hotemane-Barrois, received by Mr. Pean, Comman. of Detroit, has been recorded and registered upon the Register-Record of this Court, at the request of the said parties, in order to be of use and value in law and equity. Thereof act made at Montreal, in the said Record-Office, the twenty-second of May, one thousand seven hundred and thirty-four.

(Signed)

C. PORTIER, Clerk of the Court.

DEED TO LAND AT FORT DETROIT.

Charles Marquis de Beauharnois Commander of the Military Order of St Louis, Governor & Lieut. Gen., for the King in New France and Louisiana. Gilles Hocquart, Knight, Counselor of the King in his council Intendant of Justice, Police and Finances in New France and Louisiana.

Upon the representations made by the inhabitants of Fort Pont-Chartrain, on the Detroit (strait) of Lake Erie, to Messrs. de Bois-hebert, Capt. of a company of a marine detachment and formerly a commanding officer in said Fort Pont-Chartrain and Peon, Knight of the Military order of St Louis Major of the city and Government of Quebec and now the commanding officer of the said Fort, and which representations they have tendered to us, stating therein that the inhabitants aforesaid, have not to this day dared to undertake the clearing and settling of the land situated and lying on the aforesaid strait, because they had no title by which the possession thereof would be secured to them; that should we be pleased to grant them said titles, they