ORDINANCE of M. the Intendant, which fixes the price of travel days of nègres, Mules, Carts, Acons and Canoes employed for the King’s service

ALEXANDRE Jacques de Bongars, etc. The necessity of taking daily for the King’s service the Carts, Acons, Canoes, nègres and Mules of various Private persons obliges us, to avoid any kind of dispute in this regard, to fix in a precise and uniform manner the price of the payments to be made on this account, which can no longer be the same as those established for wartime; We, by virtue of the powers granted to us by His Majesty, have ordered and do order that henceforth and counting from this day, the following sums shall be paid to the Private suppliers; Namely: For a trip of a Cart drawn by a mule and driven by two nègres, For a day of a Cart harnessed and driven as stated, For a day of an Acon manned with five nègres, And without nègres, For the trip of a Canoe manned with nègres, For the day of a Canoe without nègres, For the day of a Canoe manned with nègres, For the day of a mule, For the day of a nègre, 1 livre.