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Members were to be a quorum. In cases over £500 Sterling there 

 was the further Appeal to the King in Council. 



NOTES TO CHAPTER H. 



(1) The Oath of Supremacy is prescribed by 1 Geo. I, St. 2, C. 13; the Declara- 

 tion against Transubstantiation, &c., by 25 Car 11, C. 2. cf. Blackstone's Commen- 

 taries, vol. 4, Chap. 4. 



(2) The Royal Instructions to General Murray, December 7, 1763, are printed 

 in Shortt and Doughty, ut supra, pp. 132 sqq. 



(3) The first Legislative Council of the Province of Quebec met "At the Council 

 Chamber in the Castle of St. Louis in the City of Quebec on Monday, the thirteenth 

 day of August, 1764." 



Those present were: — 



"His Excellency the Honorable James Murry, Esq. 

 and 

 William Gregory 

 Paulus Emilius Irving 

 Hector Theophilus Cramahé 

 Samuel Holland 

 Walter Murray 

 Adam Mabane 

 Thomas Dunn 

 Francis Mounier. 

 Nominated members of His Majesty's Honorable Council by His said Excel- 

 lency." 



(Extract from the State Book "A," containing the Minutes of said Council 

 from the 13th August, 1764, to 22nd May, 1765). 



But it appears that there was a Royal Mandamus, July 20, 1764, appointing 

 James Goldfrap (the Governor's Secretary) to the Council, and he received a Sum- 

 mons the same day (Index to State Book "A" pp. 72, 669): he was not sworn in, 

 however, till Oct. 10, 1764, and therefore did not take part in the first meeting. 



Benjamin Price took the oath on his appointment to the Council and took his 

 seat October 31, 1764, thereby completing the number the Governor could appoint. 

 William Gregory was a English barrister who was in 1764 sent out by the Home 

 Government to Quebec as Chief Justice of the Province. He was superseded, 

 February, 1766, never having been of the slightest service to the country and leaving 

 no mark on its jurisprudence. He was succeeded both as Chief Justice and as 

 President of the Council, September, 1766, by William Hey, a much abler man. 



Gregory is said to have "been let out of prison to preside on the bench, was 

 ignorant alike of civil law and the language of the country," Garneau's History 

 of Canada (translated by Bell), Montreal, John Lovell, 1862, Vol. 1, p» 91, 



Lt.-Col. Paulus Aemilius Irving, an officer in the British Army, who for a few 

 months in 1766 acted as Governor on Murray's recall by Conway; he was of the 

 family of Irving of Bonshaw, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, had taken part in the Siege 

 of Quebec under Wolfe and been wounded on the Plains of Abraham. 



Hector Théophile Cramahé, a Protestant Swiss, who had been Civil Secretary 

 for the District of Quebec during the military occupation from the time of Murray's 

 appointment as Lieutenant-Governor of that District. 



Murray had great confidence in him and in October, 1764, sent him to London 

 to explain certain difficulties which had arisen. When in 1769 Sir Guy Carleton 

 obtained leave of absence from his post as Governor in chief, Cramahé was appointed 



