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lodging of the drivers, the services of public officials or 

 any special mission. Franquet, in his memoirs, proposes 

 the following remedies to these growing and ruinous 

 abuses : 



1. The heads of the Government to travel merely on 

 sheer necessity. 



2. That, as a suitable escort, four tandems only be 

 allowed for conveying them — their secretaries, captain 

 of the guard and lackeys and six one-horse vehicles to 

 convey their equipage on the road. 



3. That 30 sols be allowed for lodging over night in 

 the country parts for the master and 15 sols for his 

 servant, each to pay for his meal. 



4. That to diminish corvees, the number of carioles 

 in winter to be furnished by the peasantry, to precede 

 high public officials be limited ; that the militia guard 

 be suppressed; that the king should open out public 

 roads, twenty feet broad, to be kept up by the owners 

 of the land under the direction of the militia captain of 

 the parish. This, says Franquet, would do away with 

 the expenditure of keeping up a Grand Voyer. The 

 shrewd engineer officer was right, but Grand Voyers (1) 

 continued to flourish in Canada for nearly a century 

 later, until 1841. Franquet was clearly in advance of 

 his age. 



(1) The last Grand Voyer was the genial and handsome 

 Lieut.-Col. Antrobus, subsequently appointed A. D. C. to the 

 Earl of Elgin, Governor-General of Canada. 



