Étienne-François, duc de CHOISEUL (1719-1785) minister of foreign affairs. P.S., Versailles May 25, 1776; 13 pages in-fol. on vellum in a booklet (1st f. detached). Extract from the registers of the King's Council of State, outlining the execution of the charge given by the Minister of War in 1762 to Sieurs Alexis-Louis Sainctmarc, Jean-Baptiste Boyer de Saint-Laurent, and three other munitionaries of the southern provinces, to act as stewards to his auxiliary troops in Spain, who were to move to Portugal with the army of His Catholic Majesty: supply operations at the camp under Bayonne and as far as Valladolid, in ammunition bread; "extraordinary and expensive" means put into effect to obtain wheat from the inhabitants; necessity of dismissing superfluous employees; submission of accounts, etc.