yo Auguft 1749. 



deavour to get as many bills as they can, 

 and change them for bills upon the French 

 treafury. Thefe bills are partly printed, 

 fpaces being left for the name, fum, &c. 

 But the firft bill, or paper currency is all 

 wrote, and is therefore fubjedt to be coun- 

 terfeited, which has fometimes been done; 

 but the great punifhments, which have been, 

 inflidted upon the authors of thefe forged 

 bills, and whichgenerally arecapital,havede- 

 terred people from attempting it again ; fo 

 that examples of this kind are very fcarce 

 at prefent. As there is a great want of 

 fmall coin here, the buyers, or fellers, 

 were frequently obliged to fuffer a fmall 

 lofs, and could pay no intermediate prices 

 between one livre and two *. 



THEY commonly give one hundred and 

 fifty livres a year to a faithful and dili- 

 gent footman, and to a maid-fervant of the 

 fame character one hundred livres. A jour- 

 neymen to an artift gets three or four li- 

 vres a day, and a common labouring man 

 gets thirty or forty fols a day. The fear- 

 city of labouring people occaiions the wages 

 to be fo high; for almoft every body finds 



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* They?/ is the lowed coin In Canada^ and is about the 

 value of a penny in the Englijh colonies. A li<vre, or fr <nc, 

 (for they are both the fame) contains twenty fols; aud three 

 livres, or francs, make an ecu, or crown. 



