GARD. Signed "D'ALPHONSE" (François-Jean-Baptiste, baron) 17 - Lot 395

GARD. Signed "D'ALPHONSE" (François-Jean-Baptiste, baron) 1756, as Préfet du GARD - 16 vendémiaire an 13 (8 Octobre 1804) - Extract from the Registres des Arrêtés du Préfet du GARD - 3pp large in-folio - "... the Chief Engineer recognized that the request of the Mayor of BELLEGARDE for the opening of a North counter-channel in the territory of the Commune of Bellegarde was well-founded, and that he had invited the administrators of the Compagnie du Canal de Navigation d'AIGUES MORTES à BEAUCAIRE to give the necessary orders for the cleaning and opening of the said counter-channel from the ARLES bridge to ST GILLES...". - Printed letterhead - Nice vignette, GARD Prefecture stamp.