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Correspondencia del Intendente de Luisiana, Juan Ventura Morales, con el Secretario de Estado y del despacho universal de Hacienda de España e Indias, Miguel Cayetano Soler.
Legajo 584. [1784-1786, 1796, 1797, 1800-1802.] Correspondencia de oficio.(Luisiana 97.) A, 21 cm., 800 letters. The legajo consists of the drafts of letters of the intendants of Luisiana to the ministers of treasury (hacienda), accompanied by the originals and drafts of the letters and documents which formed the enclosures. They are arranged in chronological order in the following series: 1784, mar.-1786, sept. Martín Navarro to José de Gálvez, nos. 203, 206, 207, 213, 319, 419. See legajo 593. 1796, may 3-1797, mar. 3. Juan Ventura Morales to Diego Gardoqui, nos. 1-100, except (indexes only) nos. 1, 43, 63, 70, 83, 94. Cf. legajo 2343 (e). 1797, mar. 31-oct. 16. Juan Ventura Morales to Pedro Varela y Ulloa, nos. 101-159, 161-173, except (indexes only) nos. 109-111, 115, 122, 129, 162. Cf. legajo 2343 (e) and (f). 1797, oct. 23. Juan Ventura Morales to Príncipe de la Paz, nos. 175-180. 1800, jan. 15, apr. 30. Ramón de López y Angulo to Cayetano Soler, nos. 1, 14. 1799, sept. 11. Juan Ventura Morales to Cayetano Soler, no. 326. 1801, july 28-1802, dec. 31. Morales to Soler, nos. 1-34, 36-107, 109-179, except (indexes only) nos. 19, 63, 98, 116, 167. Series continued in legajos 270-2, 595, 2330; cf. legajo 638. Subjects treated: 1784, date of indian congress; trade with France; 1796, commerce, importation of flour from Kentucky; general Collot; expenses of demarcation of boundary; repairs on posts; finances; the Missouri company; canary islanders; 1797, aid for posts in spanish Illinois; contract made with Barón de Bastrop without intendant¿s knowledge; arrival of situado; tobacco; indian affairs and gifts; commerce with foreign ports; relief for Santa Genoveva and Cabo Girardeau on account of inundation; con dition of treasury in sept.; capture of merchantmen by corsairs; arrival of Andrew Ellicott at Natchez; William Panton and indian trade; defense of colony; 1801, capture of the english privateer Voltaire; duties on products of the United States; contraband; report on the expenses of the recapture of Apalache; english attempt on Mobila River; situado; state of the royal warehouses in sept.; difficulties with the governor; 1802, suspension of the right of deposit, effect in Natchez; list of americans having goods depos ited; indian gifts; peace with the followers of Bowles; order for the transfer of Luisiana to the french; report on tobacco; situado; attack of Bowles on Apalache and the expedition for recapture. Listed