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The settlement is under the government (it can 

 scarcely be said the control) of a governor, council, 

 and recorder, all nominated by the Hudson's Bay 

 Company. The recorder is the civil and criminal 

 judge, presides at jury trials, and is aided by 

 justices of the peace, and a constabulary in the 

 Company's pay. 



In 1849 a bishop was sent from England to 

 oversee the Episcopal church. There are also 

 some ministers of the Wesleyan persuasion ; and 

 the Roman Catholic worship is maintained by two 

 bishops, a staff of priests, and a nunnery. The 

 Hudson's Bay Company aid the clergymen of all 

 the persuasions by free passages, rations, and other 

 advantages, besides granting salaries to those em- 

 ployed at their fur posts, whether Protestants or 

 Roman Catholics. There are also various educa- 

 tional establishments in the colony for the settlers 

 and native population ; and most of the children, 

 both male and female, of the Company's officers 

 are now instructed in a boarding-school in the 

 colony of a high character, a few of them only 

 being sent to Great Britain or Canada. Many of 

 the young men so educated have entered the Hud- 

 son's Bay Company's service as clerks, and some 

 have attained the rank of chief traders and chief 

 factors ; while the young women, in their vocations 

 as wives of the officers and clerks, diffuse a know- 



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