146 Auguft 1749* 



poflifllons in the country. They leafe the 

 land to the fettlers for a certain rent,* 

 which, if it be annually paid according to 

 their agreement, the children or heirs of 

 the fettlers may remain in an undifturbed 

 poffeffion of the lands, A piece of land, 

 three arpens * broad, and thirty* forty,, or 

 fifty arpens long, pays annually an ecu -f*, 

 and a couple of chickens, or fome other 

 additional trifle. In fuch places as have 

 convenient water-falls, they have built wa- 

 ter-mills, or faw-mills, from which they 

 annually get confiderable fums. The fe- 

 rninary of Montreal poffeffes the whole 

 ground on which that town (lands, toge- 

 ther with the whole ifle of Montreal. I have 

 been affured, that the ground-rent of the 

 town and ifle is computed at feventy thou- 

 fand livres; befides what they get for fay- 

 ing maffes, baptizing, holding confeffions, 

 attending at marriages and funerals, &c^ 

 All the revenues of ground-rent belong to 

 the feminaries alone, and the prieftsrin the 

 country have no mare in theiru 'But as the 

 feminary in Montreal, confiiling only,,^ 

 fixteen priefts^ has greater revenues than 

 it can expend, a large fum of money is an- 

 nuaUy, fent Qy^r to France, to th^, chief 



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* A French acre/ 



t A French coitt, value about a crown 



