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Administrative problems: civilian, military; clerical, upkeep of the crew of the Spanish wreck, Vigilante. Arrival of the Saint Rand. Damage caused by the hurricane. Indian affairs: Illinois, Natchez, Natchitoches, Choctaws. Construction of a lighthouse at La Belise. Isaac invents a cottonmill. Several French ships lost at sea. A college is needed at New Orleans. Swiss troops. Quarrels among church authorities. Tobacco. Reports of Saint Denis on the Natchitoches. Livaudais' mission to Vera Cruz; a loan in silver requested but is refused by the Vice Roy of Mexico. Bienville and Salmon inspect Mobile. Financial accounts of the Company and the King in 1732. Barter merchandise; exchange rates of differenent monie. Negro slaves. Crop failure in Illinois country. Scarcity of food supplies. Epidemics at New Orleans. Diron d'Artaquiette reports on his inspection in Illinois country. Unrest among Indian tribes in part due to English intrigues. Construction of public buildings at New Orleans; plans.

An English ship seized at Ile Dauphine. Mobile receives supplies; New Orleans also; sale of newly arrived cargoes. Wood, tar, and other naval stores. Personnel problems; civilian, military, clerical. Compliments addressed to the Swiss. Incidents at the Nachitoches post. La Balise. Public health and medical problems; hospitals. Agriculture: indigo, tobacco, rice, cotton, flax and "Chanvre"; naval stores; furs. Commerce with the Spanish. Arguments in favor of "card money". Indian affairs; defense and fortifications; the Ursuline convent. Shipbuilding in Louisiana. An English ship calls at Mobile. Detailed reports from Mobile. Construction work at La Balise. The Natchez fort; the Natchitoches fort; fortifications in Illinois country; artillery; trade. Navigation on the Mississippi. Missionaries from the "Missions Etrangeres", Paris. Artaquiette appointed commander in Illinois country; tribal warfare in the upper Mississippi Valley. English intrigues cause troubles with the Choctaws.

Import and export trade. Ships calling at New Orleans. Louisiana produce. Slaves required. Shipbuilding in the colony. English intrigues among the Choctaws. Cotton. Food supplies still low. Defense, arms, fortifications. Agitation among Indian tribes. Church affairs. Medical problems. Financial questions; letters of credit. Success of Artaquiette's mission to the Illinois. The Ursaline sisters. Missionaries needed. The post at La Balise. Various reports on the Swiss detachments at Mobile and at New Orleans. An English ship seized at Mobile; reports from Diron; Indian affairs. Military affairs at New Orleans; personnel questions. 60 English families settle in Appalachian country. Maritime liasions between Louisiana and Saint Domingue. Death of the Alabama chief, Mingo. Payment of scalps. Engineering projects for Mobile, La Balise and New Orleans. Finances of the "Compagnie". Contraband trade with Havana and Vera Cruz.

Relations with Indian tribes, tribal wars, English efforts to isolate the French from their Indian allies, relations with the Spanish, especially at Pensacola. Trade with the home country; naval stores. Food supply. Ships arrive from France and from the French islands. Artaquiette defeated by the Chickasaws. Troops arrive aboard the Girodne. News from the various French posts. Health and sanitation. Disappointment with tobacco crops. Slaves needed. Indian trade; merchandise requested by the Indians. A church is built at Natchitoches; other church affairs; problems with clerical personnel. Financial management of the colony; accounts. Public works at New Orleans, at La Balise, at Mobile; situation at the forts. Rumors of war; necessity of maintaining the Choctaw alliance. Relations with Vera Cruz. The Illinois fort. Medical doctors for the colony. Indian trade and prices; competition with the English. Consequences of the defeat of Artaquiette. Epidemic among the Fox Indians. Indian policy applied to the new English colony, Georgia. Events on the Ohio; 4 French are killed. The Perle, Reine des Anges and Comte de Maurepas arrive. Public opinions reports. Supplies arrive, including medicines. Card money instituted. Death of M. de Vincennes; situation in Wabash country. Swiss soldiers form Karrer's regiment. Missionaries. Correspondence from Mobile, form Artaquiette's brother.

Card money. Bad weather-poor harvests; public works; construction at New Orleans, at La Balise. Ships and boats built in the Colony. Troops; Swiss soldiers. Barter merchandise; preferences of Indians. Settlers for the colony. Slaves also. Agriculture. Navigation on the Mississippi. Reports and maps of Chickasaw country. English incursions. Treaty with the Spanish for the restitution of deserters. Military personnel: officers and men. The Choctaws incited to go on the warpath against the Chickasaws. Repercussions among other tribes. Medical affairs: doctors, hospitals, medicines. Naval stores. Arrival of supply ships; return cargoes. Trouble in Wabash country. Letters of credit. The Osage and Cherokee nations showing signs of hostility. English ship at Biloxi. Diron d. Artaquiette's reports on Indian affairs in his region; Choctaw-Chickasaw rivalry. A new Spanish Vice Roy arrives in the Americas; difficult relations with Pensacola. Troops recuited for the colonies. Reports on the various posts. Memoirs on the state of the colony and its development in the future.

Construction of churches; church affairs; Jesuit and Capuchin Orders. A new campaign against the Chickasaws is being prepared. Navigation on the Mississippi; the pass is still dangerous; the Louisiana is wrecked. Garrisons built at New Orleans; improvements made on posts. Medical personnel. La Balise pass filling up with silt. French prisoners held in Carolina (Chevalier du Clos and a soldier). Exchange procedures for deserters adopted by the French and Spanish. Good harvests in Illinois country. Food supplies. Trouble in Wabash country. Ships calling at New Orleans. English intrigues countered. Peace between the Choctaws and the Chickasaws means danger for Louisiana and Canada. Pressure exercised on the Alabamas by the English. Medicines; a nun pharmacist requested for the colony. Decrease in fur trade; high cost of return cargoes for merchant ships. Debts of the Society of Jesus. Security measures taken in Natchitoches and Natchez country, and at Pointe Coupee. Swiss inhabitants at Mobile. A slave trading company established at New Orleans.

Arrival of supply ships but troops and Indian goods delayed. Military affairs. A fort built in Wabash country. Need for slaves. Construction work throughout the colony. Officers and soldiers. Privileges granted to Louisiana products in the Iles de Vent. The French get the upper hand again with the Choctaws. Bourville, governor par interim at the Ile Royale, reports several winter; food urgently needed; supplies purchased from English; French and English rivalry for influence over Indians. Unrest among Indian tribes. The English have their troubles too. Swiss troops. Longueil at the head of Canadian, Iroquois, Abenaki, and Huron troops from Canada is to meet troops from Louisiana at the Riviere a Margot in November for the second campaign against the Chickasaws. Navigation on the rivers and bayous is difficult. Administrative, religious, medical affairs. Arrival of the supply ships Atlas and Profound. Epidemic of yellow fever at New Orleans. Tobacco in Maryland and Virginia. English expansion threatens Florida, Acadia, the Iroquois country, the Appalache region. Reports on Georgia, on other English colonies in America, on the British naval and colonial services. Reports from Pensacola and other colonies. Reports from New York.

The Charente arrives in New Orleans, the merchant vessel Andromede also. Military matters: mortality, housing, rotation between home and colonial duty, food, clothing, Swiss troops. Financial problems. New letters of credit must be issued. Negro slaves; a regular slave ship once a year would be sufficient to meet the colony's needs. Construction of the Chartres fort in Illinois country suspended; advantages of having a fort in Wabash country. A church to be built at Kaskaskia. The quality of Louisiana tobacco to be strictly controlled. Loss of the frigate Atlas. Supplies received aboard the Atlas, Louis Erasms, Sultane, Profond, and Charente. Navigation of the Mississippi. Bienville's detailed report on the Chickasaw campaign. Activities of Georgia's governor among Indian tribes in his region. British intrigues against the Spanish at Saint Augustine. News from Mobile; the fort to be repaired. Service records of officers on duty in Louisiana. Surviving Natchez Indians take refuge among the Cherokees. Epidemics at New Orleans. Indian tribal warfare. Cost of the campaign against the Chickasaws. Ships from France: la Reins des Anges, l'Aimable Suzanne, la Comte de Maurepas. State of the colony's finances after the Chickasaw campaign. Religious affairs. News from the Alabama trading post. English incursions into regions hitherto under French influence; "Soulier Rouge" and 16 other Choctaws reported to have been killed by the Chickasaws.

Financial matters: accounts for 1740. Cost of the Chickasaw campaign. La Somme arrives; no flour aboard; M. de Rossel refuses to unload the canons at La Balise. Renaud's accounts with the Compagnie des Indes. Mines in Illinois territory. Supplies: medications, food, guns, ammunition, other merchandise required. Exports: tobacco, indigo. Navigation on the Mississippi. Shipbuilding in the colony; ship timber sent to France. Trade with Alabamas. A small detachment under the orders o M. Fabry accompanies traders to Santa Fe. Work to be done at La Balise, at Mobile. The Triton and Reine des Anges arrive. Indian tribal warfare; British and French rivalry. Mobile and the Choctaws. Letters of credit in circulation; card money and treasury bonds depreciated. Hurricane damage: La Balise, New Orleans, Mobile, Pensacola, Ile aux Vaisseaux: losses suffered. Defense plans in case of a British attack; Spanish forces. Hostilities in the upper Mississippi Valley; the Cherokees are on the warpath. Commerce between Louisiana and the French Islands (la Martinique, St. Domingue). Louisiana agriculture. The slave trade. Salmon severely criticizes Bienville's action in the Chickasaw campaign. Expenses of la Fee, la Somme, while in the colony. Tobacco production, furs, naval stores. Negroes born in the colony. Doctors needed. Settlers also. Pensacola re-fortified. Chickasaw and Natchez raids; unrest throughout the colony. Crops good outside hurricane area. English offensive in the Caribbean; l'Etenduere's squadron attacked.