70 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, ^r. 

 But the hrft bill, or paper currency Is all 

 wrote, and is therefore fubjedt to be coun- 

 terfeited, which has fometiraes been done; 

 but the great punifhments, which have been 

 iniiidted upon the authors of thefe forged 

 bills, and which generally are capital, have de- 

 terred people from attempting it again j 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 charader 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 occafions the v/ages 

 to be fo high; for almoil every body finds 



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* Theyo/ls'the loweft coin in Canada, and is about the 

 value of a penny in the EngUJh colonies. A livre, or franc, 

 (for they are both the fame) contains twenty folsj and three 

 iivres, or francs, make an ecut or crown. 



