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L:IW &ili 3ljy&33d A bs3ooDiJcn >.liv/ rx; is-: 

 prefent. The firft fettlers paid a trifling 



rent for their land ; for frequently the whole 

 leafe for a piece of ground, three arpen* 

 broad and thirty long, confifts in a couple 

 of chicken ; and fome pay twenty, thirty, 

 or forty fols for a piece of land of the fame 

 fize. But thofe who came later, muft pay 

 near two ecus (crowns) for fuch a piece of 

 land, and thus the land-rent is very unequal 

 throughout the country. The revenues of 

 the bifhop of Canada do not arife from any 

 landed property. The churches are built 

 at the expence of the congregations. The 

 inhabitants of Canada do not yet pay any 

 taxes to the king; and he has no other re- 

 venues' from it, than thofe which arife from 

 the cuftom-houfe. 



THE priefts of Montreal have a mill here, 

 where they take the fourth part of all that 

 is ground. However the miller receives a 

 third part of this (hare. In other places 

 he gets the half of it. The priefts fome- 

 times leafe the mill for a certain fum. Be- 

 fides them nobody is allowed to ered: a mill 

 on the ifle of Montreal, they having referv- 

 ed that right to themfelves. In the agree- 

 ment drawn up between the priefts and the 

 inhabitants of the ifle, the latter are obligr- 

 ed to get all their corn ground in the mills 

 >9f the former. 



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