Antoine Bernard Dauterive, Captain in the Infantry, declared that until recently he had been in possession of four leagues of land, which he had acquired from a Mr. Masse for the purpose of raising cattle. Governor Alejandro O'Reilly in his regulations for the Attakapas district had ordered the size of holdings used for livestock reduced to 1 1/2 leagues river frontage. The petitioner now requested that the Governor grant him title to 1 1/2 leagues frontage in the original tract. [This document is bound with seven others, all of which relate to the Dauterive grant. There is a separate entry for each item. Mention of Dauterive's cattle business appears in H.L. Griffin, The Attakapas Country, pages 8, 15-16.]
