A letter of the recording and fields were sent on December 23, 1850 to the Prefect of Morbihan.

This one the formless one that two individuals whom one says English origin make undertaken on the shore of the sea in the commune of Penestin between the point of the three young ladies and that of Lomer. The engineer in chief of the coastal engineering informs the administration which it cannot make draw up verbal lawsuit by insufficiency of personnel.

WHAT SOUGHT THESE ENGLISH ?

A letter of the engineer in chief of the Mines of Mans informs the Prefect of Morbihan of the following facts on January 17, 1851.

Illicit a tin Ore exploitation takes place by two English in the commune of Penestin and it would be necessary that Mister the Prefect causes continuations against the contraveners.

A letter of the Mayor of Penestin is sent to the Prefect on December 24, 1851 to intercede in favour of the two workmen.

Mister the Mayor of Penestin sends this day a plan of the coast which it extracted from the chart of Mr. Beautemps Beaupré following the request from Jean Jeffrai, Joseph and William Wellington which wishes to obtain an authorization to wash stanniferous sands which are in various places of the coast of Penestin.

Mister the Mayor asks for Mister the Prefect of be so kind as to be interested in these workmen who are fathers of families and to give them as soon as possible the authorization which they ask.

It also mentions that their work can harm nobody because the product which they will be able to withdraw from their work would be lost for all, because it is necessary to be as skilful as they are it in their industry to withdraw something.