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Show APPENDTX. Observctlions antl 'l't>Jlrctions on tile p1·nwnt antl jut u1·c slnlr of lfpJH'J• IJOilisiana, in 1't'Lttlion to the go"l'ICl'lWICnl of /he lndiltn'luttiou."' in1tafJitin,; Lllltt countJ·y, mut lite trade £t1llL inLe1·course ·with the sctmc. I:!] cnplain Lewis. 'VrTH a view to a mot·e eompl tc clfw(•lotJm<'nt or this subject., I lla.vc deemed it ('Xpedicut in the out."id, t.o state the )catlin~-; measureR JHll'!:mcd hy the pl'ovincial government of, pain, in l'Cla.tion to this snhjcct; H c ~viis '"hieh flowed f1·om those measm·cs, as W(')l to the Indians as to the whites, in o1·der that we may }ll'Oflt by Owi1· et'I'Ol' , ~ ncl he oursches the heUct• enabled to apply the nt•cC~'S<\l'Y cot·t·ectives to the remnant of evil:; which the it· practice intt·o<luo~d. Fl'om tlac commence111cnt ol' the Spanish 1u·ovinc~ial f,;'Overument in Louisiana, whether by the p<'rmis,:,ion of the crown, or Ol'iginatin;; in the pecunial'y rapaC'ity of thch· governo• ·s general, this olliccL' a!:lsnmetl to himself exclusively the right of tl'ading with all the Indian nations in Louisiana; ami thc•·eforc pt·occcd<'d to 'lio.,pose of this priyil<·gc to intlivicluals, for cet•tain Sl)ccific sums: his example was i mitated by tlac governors of U ppct· Lou· ~i~ua, who ma•le n furtlaet· cxn.rtion. 'l'laosc exclusive lHWH iss ions to i udividuals v~u·icll as tn the extent of <'Oll llll'y 01' uations they ('JnlH'aC(' d, and the }leriod fot• wJaieh g-t·ant(·tl~ lwt in aH t•ase~ the <!Xclnsiv ·liccn ·cs were offcl'cll to lht~ hi ·~hcst hidde~·, antl, eou- 'CtJUlmlly, the sums l)aicl by the incli,iduahi lhH'cha.diH~, \Vcru tjuitc as much as the profits uf the trade would bear, ami in |