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at the king's posts in the upper country — lespays d'en 

 haut. 



2nd. To regulate the number of soldiers required at 

 each post. 



3rd. To limit the proportion of vehicles for their con- 

 veyance and the amount of provisions necessary for the 

 route. 



4th. To provide each post with the arms and stores 

 requisite for their defense and maintenance for one 

 year. 



5th. To deliver permits to traders for leave to trade 

 at these posts. 



6th. To fix the number of assistants required by the 

 traders and by others for the king's service in order to 

 be able each year to keep exact count of the number 

 of persons leaving the colony. 



7th. To receive the delegates of Indian tribes, who 

 each year visit Montreal to bring offerings to the king ; 

 to warn and advise them of what the French sovereign 

 expected of them and to present these delegates with 

 necklaces as tokens of their good faith. 



There were several other important subjects which 

 engaged the attention of the General-in-Chief, in his 

 annual visit to Montreal, embodied in other memoirs 

 addressed by Franquet to his sovereign. 



The 14th January was the date selected for the 

 departure of the quasi-regal expedition for Montreal, 

 quite a gala day. An invitation from the courtly 

 Marquis to form part of it was as highly prized at 

 Quebec as was an invitation from the French sovereign 

 to a courtier to join the royal excursion from Paris to 

 Marly, so says Franquet. Bigot had selected a party of 

 the elite, ladies and gentlemen, to accompany with 

 him the General as far as Pointe-aux-Trembles, twenty 

 miles west of Quebec, on the north shore of the 

 St. Lawrence ; all were to be Bigot's guests at dinner 

 that day and, at breakfast, the following morning. 



