268        ILLINOIS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
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scrivener of the Isle of Montreal, residing at Villemarie, and the witnesses named at the end, were present in person Francois Picard, of Boucherville, who of his good will has obligated himself to the Sieur Alphonse de Tonti, esquire, half-pay captain of the detachment of the marine, and Michel le Pailleur, Sieur de Laferte,1 associated for the voyage to the Ottawa, here present and accepting to ascend to the said country of the Illinois and the neighboring nations and to remain there as long as the partnership of the said Sieur de Tonti and de Laferte shall last, during which time the said Picard shall be bound faithfully to serve and work for and to do all that shall be commanded him that is honest and licit for the said partnership, to seek its profit and to warn whoever has charge of it of loss and damages that may befall it if they come to his knowledge. And the said Sieurs de Tonti and de Laferte promise that he shall be treated humanely as befits him, and further shall be subsisted at the expense of the said part-
1 Michel le Pailleur, father-in-law of J. B. Adhemar, was notary at Quebec from 1701 to 1702 and at Montreal from 1703 to 1733. At Montreal he served also as court crier and jailer, but he was relieved from duties in the latter capacity in 1709, after he had allowed a prisoner to escape. October 9, 1726 he became procurator of the king on the stipulation that he would not act as notary •while holding this office. Suite, Melanges Histori-qiies, 1:113 n.; Roy, Histoire du Notariat au Canada, 1:132, 133, 153.