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1. " Correspoudauce Officiele," first series, Vols. I — V. There are transcripts from the 

 Paris docvimeuts copied in France for the State of New York, and translations of all of 

 them are in the ninth and tenth volumes of the " Documents relating to the Colonial His- 

 tory of the State of New York." 



2. " Correspondance Officiele," second series, Vols. II, IV — VIII. These papers exist 

 in manuscript, and have not been translated into English. There are copies in the Library 

 of Parliament, Ottawa, and in the Archives Office of the Quebec Grovernment. 



3. A collection of papers made by an agent of Massachusetts at Paris, Mr. Ben. Perley- 

 Poore, in 1844. They were copied afterward in Boston on an order from the Quebec Grov- 

 ernment, and are in the keeping of the Eegistrar at Quebec. These documents were pub- 

 lished in four large quartos by the Quebec Government, in 1883-85, under the general 

 title " Collection de Manuscrits." Mr. Perley-Poore's copies, comprising ten large volumes, 

 are to be found in the Archives' Eooms of the State House, Boston. These papers are very 

 valuable as far as they go, but the copyist left many gaps unfilled, and returned to Massa- 

 chusetts without completing his work. 



The original Eegister and Proceedings of Council, in several volumes, remain in very 

 fair condition in the Archives of the Quebec Government. The first, a folio bound in calf 

 and indexed, bears two titles, the first of which is, " Registre des Insinuations du Conseil 

 Supérieiir de 1663 à 1682," pp. 96. It begins with the king's edict creating the Superior 

 Council, dated April 1st, 1663, and ends with the " Procès Verbal " of the Superior Council 

 concerning the " Redaction " of the " Code Civil," or Ordinance of Louis, April 14th, 1667, 



The second title is, " Jugements et Deliberations du Conseil Souverain de la Nouvelle 

 France, 1663 à 16*76," pp. 281. It begins with an arrêt of the Superior Council ordering 

 the registration of the king's edict of April 1st, 1663, creating the Superior Council for 

 New France, to be held at Quebec ; and ends with an interlocutory judgment, dated 

 December 19th, 16*76, upon a petition of François Noir Roland, complaining of his curate 

 for refusing him absolution. This book or register is authenticated by the certificate of 

 the governor. Comte de Frontenac, on the first page, as follows : " Le Présent Registre du 

 Conseil Souverain contenant trois cents soixante et seize feuillets a été ce jour paraphé ne 

 varietur par premier et dernier, par nous Louis de Buade de Frontenac Chevallier Comte 

 de Palluau, Conseiller du Roy en ses Conseils, Gouverneur et Intendant Général pour 

 sa Majesté, en la Nouvelle France, Québec, le quinzième Janvier mille six cents soixante 

 et quinze. — Frontenac." The entries in general throughout this end of the book are 

 authenticated by the governor, bishop, intendant, councillors, or clerk of the Council ; 

 and the last, or two hundred and eighty-first leaf, is signed by Duchesneau, intendant, 

 and by Dupont, member of the Council. Its general contents consist of a A'ariety of 

 orders, regulations, ordinances, judgments, civil and criminal, of the Superior Council, 

 licitations, and adjudications of Crown estates, representations to the king and his 

 ministers upon A*arious subjects. There are the four following volumes of this Register 

 in the Archives at Quebec, bearing the dates, 16*77 to 1680, 1681, 1681 to 1687, and 1688 

 to 1693, respectively. Each of these contains interesting details of Council proceedings 

 during the first administration of Frontenac, the time of de La Barre and de Denonville, 

 and during Frontenac's second term. 



The "Edits et Ordonnances," Vol. Ill, contains copies of the Commissions of Fronte- 

 nac, La Barre and de Denonville. 



