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prefent. The firil fettlers paid a trifling 

 rent for their land -, for frequently the whole 

 kafe for a piece of ground, three arpens 

 broad and thirty long, conlifts in a couple 

 of chicken -, and feme 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 Catiada 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 kingj 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 gf^ts the half of it. The priefts fome- 

 times leafe the mill for a certain fum. Be- 

 fides them nobody is allowed to eredl a mill 

 on the ifle of Montreal, they having referv- 

 ed that right to themfelves. In the agree- 

 ment dravv'n up between the priefls and the 

 inhabitants of the ifle, the latter are oblig- 

 ed to get all their corn ground in the mills 

 of the former. 



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