DECREE of the Conseil d’Etat, revoking the Privilege granted to the Shareholders in the Compagnie du Sénégal in execution of the Contract of 21 March 1679, and forbidding the said Shareholders, the Captains of their…

THE KING having had presented to him in his Conseil the Contract made on 21 March 1679 between the sieurs Bellinzani and Mesnager, Directors of the Domaine d’Occident, and the Shareholders in the Compagnie du Sénégal, by which the said Shareholders offered and bound themselves to carry each year, for eight years, the quantity of two thousand nègres to the French islands of America, on condition that they alone would trade on all the Coasts of Guinea as far as the Cape of Good Hope; together with the Decree of the Conseil of 25 March of the same year, by which His Majesty annulled the Treaty made on 16 October 1675 with Maître Jean Oudiette, Fermier of the Domaine d’Occident, who had undertaken to have eight hundred nègres carried to the said islands each year for four years.