Articles of agreement between Robert Brazil and Thomas Rill, both at the Opelousas post

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Before Nicholas Forstall, Commandant of the Opelousas post, appeared Robert Brazil, who obligated himself to cut for Thomas Rill 4,000 cypress stakes, each ten feet long, from the cypress grove at Prairie Basse. Rill agreed to pay five piastres per hundred, but if Brazil failed to deliver the stated quantity before December 15, he had to pay Rill one hundred piastres.

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Articles of agreement between Robert Brazil and Thomas Rill, both at the Opelousas post

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1788-10-22

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Before Nicholas Forstall, Commandant of the Opelousas post, appeared Robert Brazil, who obligated himself to cut for Thomas Rill 4,000 cypress stakes, each ten feet long, from the cypress grove at Prairie Basse. Rill agreed to pay five piastres per hundred, but if Brazil failed to deliver the stated quantity before December 15, he had to pay Rill one hundred piastres.

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Document signed. In French.

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Rosemonde E. & Emile Kuntz collection: Spanish colonial period, 1769-1803, Manuscripts Collection 600, La Research Collection

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