DECREE of the Conseil d’Etat, which approves the Trade of the Compagnie du Sénégal on the Coast of Africa, in Merchandise as well as in nègres, to the exclusion of all others

SEEN by the King in his Conseil, the Treaty made by the Directors of the Commerce of the West Indies with Maître Jean Oudiette, Fermier-Général of the Domaine d’Occident, on 16 October 1675, by which the said Oudiette bound himself to have carried to the French Islands of America, for four consecutive years, the quantity of at least eight hundred nègres each year, on pain of nullity of the said Treaty, whom he would be at liberty to sell by private agreement, and under the other charges, clauses and conditions set out in the said Treaty, which was confirmed by Decree of the Conseil of the 26th of the said month of October 1675, which Treaty the said Oudiette has not fulfilled.