from the price of the present sale, Mr. Barlow binds his principals
towards the society purchasing or its assigns to put them, in possession
and enjoyment of an amount of the three million acres proportionate
to the amount of the said payment at the aforesaid rate of six livres
Tournois per acre, and these acres thus gradually paid for, shall at
first be located on the river Ohio at the east line of the seventeenth
Township range to the twentieth range at the west and at the north;
following the arrangements marked upon the plats joined to the
minutes of these presents, in the order of the remittances proportion-
ately to the payments herein above fixed.
The said society may moreover resell all or a part of the three
million acres, before the times herein above fixed for the payment of
their price, provided that the said society give up to the Sieur Barlow,
under the title of pledge the agreements of the under purchasers, but
the said Sieur Barlow shall give back to the said society these agree-
ments when it shall pay to him their entire value.» »»*****»•»
Who while approving and confirming the engagements herein above
contracted by their co-associates for their society have by these presents
appointed for their attorneys, general and special, Mr. Playfair and
Mr. Barlow herein above named and M. Jean Antoine Chais of Soisson,
advocate to the Parliament to whom jointly and severally they have
given power to resell all or a part of the said three million acres at
the best price, terms or conditions of receiving the price thereof, or to
assign it all or in part, and to go out of the society with respect to
the principals of the Sieur Barlow, to give for this purpose every
acquittance, consent, subrogation and to disseize in consequence the
society of its rights of property over the object of resale in favor of
their purchasers and generally to do for the ease and accomplishment
of the said sale all which the said Sir attorneys appointed shall judge
most fit for the advantage of the said society, to substitute in the
present powers one or several associates.
And for the execution of these presents the parties have chosen
domiciles and names in their dwellings in the aforesaid four places
anything to the contrary notwithstanding.
Made and done at Paris and the residence of the parties:
November 3d, 1789, before noon » * * have signed the minutes of
these presents remaining with M. Fairmain one of the notaries above
mentioned.
Signed     Farmain
pour Copie:   Signed     F. M. T. De Barth.
Ill
PETITION OF FRENCH EMIGRANTS TO THE AGENTS OF THE
OHIO COMPANY, IN DECEMBER, 11195.
The  French  inhabitants  of  Gallipolis  by  their  Agents  Matthew
«Here follows a partial list of tbe members of the Society of the
Scioto.   For full list see above, p. 25.
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