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[150] Houck, History of Missouri, ii, p. 240; Wheeler, A Practical Treatise of the Law of Slavery, pp. 12–14. O’Reilly’s instructions to the various commandants at Natchitoches, the coast and elsewhere, are given in Gayarré, History of Louisiana, Spanish Domination, pp. 20, 25.