SENEGAL Arrest du conseil d’état du roy, qui défend, pendant un an, la sortie du royaume, de la Gomme du Sénégal; à peine de confiscation & de trois cens livres d’amende. Du 2 novembre 1751.

Ruling prohibiting the export of Senegalese gum. "The excessive quantity of Senegalese gum exported abroad could cause a shortage of this drug in the kingdom".

Today known as gum arabic, this substance is used in the manufacture of soft drinks, in oenology, painting, photography, ceramics, etc.