Moreover the said Sieur De la Salle having erected quarters (logemens) with settlers at the said Niagara in the year one thousand six hundred and Sixty Eight which quarters were burned Twelve years ago by the Senecas, which is one of the causes of discontent that with many others have obliged us to wage war against them, and as we considered that the houses we have thought fit to rebuild could not remain secure during the war, did we not provide for them, We have Resolved to construct a Fort there in which we have placed one hundred men of the King's troops to garrison the same under the command of Sieur de Troyes, one of the Veteran Captains of His Majesty's troops with a necessary

number of Officers to command said soldiers. This Acte has been executed in Our presence and in that of Monsieur Gaillard, Commissary on behalf of the King attached to the Army and subdelgate of Monsieur de Champigny, Intendant of Canada which Acte We have signed with Our hand and sealed with Our Seal at Arms, and caused :

to be subscribed

by Mess rs de Callieres and Vaudreuil and by Monsieur Gaillard, and countersigned

by Our Secretary.

And they sign

:

J.

Rene de Brissay, Marquis de Denonville, le Chevalier de

Callieres, Chevalier de Vaudreuil, Gaillard ; and lower down by Monseigneur Tophlin.

[

From Council Min. V. ] ffort James Tuesday ye

Mr Brockholes Informed y

e

19^ July 1687. (0. S.)

Council he is now come from Albany & Schenectadae with Instructions