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Early Detroit
the strong arm of the law, than are to be found in the papers, official and unofficial, of those Jesuit Fathers. But most of the colonial officers were, directly or indirectly, interested in the fur trade, and consequently in this traffic, and they, as well as the traders with all the energy, ingenuity and determination of purpose that belongs to self-interest, resisted the efforts of the holy fathers. But in 1694 the latter secured an ordinance from the King prohibiting the transportation of brandy to.
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