Woodcutting contract between L.F. DeGruy and the New Orleans Canal and Banking Company, New Orleans

Degruy, L.F.

1862-12-18

The New Orleans Canal and Banking Company granted DeGruy the privilege of cutting up to 500 cords of firewood from the company land, situated on the south side of the New Canal and extending from Metairie Ridge to the shore of Lake Pontchartrain. DeGruy was not to cut live oaks, cypresses, or other timber trees, but he could cut willows, maples, and ashes. He would pay the company two dollars for each cord of firewood cut and six dollars for every thousand hoop poles cut.

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Document signed. Countersigned: H.A. Rathbone, President, New Orleans Canal and Banking Company

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Rosemonde E. & Emile Kuntz Collection, National period, 1804-1950, Manuscripts Collection 600, La Research Collection

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