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4 pages on legal size 4 page conjugate. 12-3/4" x 7-3/4". Signed by Madden with 8 lines of additional commentary by Don Carlos De Hault deLassus signed by him, also signed with commentary by John Price and J. P. Leuvard (?). 

Petition in French made to the last Governor of Upper Louisiana before the Spanish were forced by the French to relinquish it to the United States following the Louisiana Purchase.  The purchase was finalized on December 20 1803, and transfer of government was made on March 10,1804.  The present petition, made when deLassus had barely a month to go in office, undoubtedly has to do with some final disposition of spoils.  DeLassus himself was a large landowner, having made numerous grants of land to himself during his tenure as governor, but these were not upheld by the United States.

Donated by Michael Ginsberg Books, Sharon, Massachusetts.