Authorized The Granting Of Lands

Flags In New Madrid, Missouri

"When he [Charles Dehault Delassus] went to New Madrid to command, he found the regulations of Carondelet; he left them there when he came here to command. They had authority only in Upper Louisiana. Those regulations authorized the granting of lands, according to the number of family and means...".

"He consulted no ordinances of the King for his duties, but the orders and instructions of the Governor which were authoritative to him. He was likewise governed by the usage and customs of his predecessors."

Sign In New Madrid

"When he left Orleans to take command at Madrid, Carondelet told him in person what lie afterwards wrote, that he wanted him to invite inhabitants from the United States, not hunters, but those who had families and great means; and to grant lands as much as they want, according to their means."

"He was commandant at New Madrid from the year 1796 to 1799. Those papers, with others, he lost at Baton Rouge on the revolution there."

( Source: Congressional Series of United States Public Documents, Volume 202)