36 An Hîjl or leal Journal of 



have only Time to compleat what concerns the Trade in ge- 

 neral. 



Nothing has more contributed todiftrefs the Trade than the fre- 

 Various Chan es ^^^^^ Changes which have been made in the 

 'n the^Mone ^^^^^ Money ; this is the Hiftory of it in few 

 tn e oney. Words. In 1670, the Weil- India Company, 



to whom the King had given the Domain of the Iflands of the 

 Continent of French Amerkay had leave to fend to thefe lilands 

 a hundred thoufand Livres (a) in fmall Money, marked with a 

 particular Legend, that was proper to it. The King's Edid is 

 dated in February^ by which this Species was to be current only 

 in the Iflands. But upon fome Difficulties which arofe, the 

 Council made an Oïàtx Nonjemher \%y i(>J'2., that the faid Mo- 

 ney, and all other Species that was current in France^ fliould 

 pafs alfo, not only in the French Iflands, but alfo on the Conti- 

 nent of America fubjed to the Crown, with an Augmentation of 

 one fourth Part ; that is to fay, the Pieces of fifteen Sous for 

 twenty, and the reft in Proportion. The fame Order decreed 

 that all Contrats, Notes, Accounts, Sales, and Payments, fliould 

 be made according to the Rate of the Money, without making Ufe 

 of Exchanges, or accounting in Sugar or other Merchandize, on 

 the Penalty of making all fuch Ads void. And for all paft it was 

 ordered, that all Contrads, Notes, Debts, Dues, Rents in 

 Sugar, or other Merchandize, fliould be paid in Mcney, ac- 

 cording to the Currency of the faid Species. In the Execution 

 of this Order, Money encreafed one fourth in Ne^uj France, which 

 foon occafioned many Difficulties. In Fad, M. de Champigny 

 Norcy, who was made Indendant of ^ehec in 1684, and v^/ho is 

 now Intendant: at Ha^vre-de-Grace, found himfeli foon embarrafled, 

 both in the Payment of the Troops, and other Expences of the 

 King in this Colony. 



Eefides this, the Funds which were fent from France, aimoft 

 always came too late ; and by the firfl: of January the Officers and 

 Soldiers were to be paid, and other Payments to be made, which 

 were equally indifpen fable. To fatisfy the moft prelTirig De- 

 mands, M . ^de Champigny m2iàQ Notes to fupply the Place of Mo- 

 ney, obferving always the Augmentation. And by Order of the 

 Governor and the Intendant, they fet on every Piece of this Mo- 

 ney (which was a Card) theTreafurer's Sign Manual, the Arrr.s of 

 France, and the Seals of the Governor and Intendant in Wax; they 

 afterwards got them printed in France, on Pafteboard, with the 

 fame Marks as the current Money of the Kingdom ; and it was 

 ordered that they fliould be prefented every Year before the 

 Arrival of the Ships from France, to add a Mark, to prevent 

 Counterfeits. 



(a) A Livre is about j j.- 8 "rt of our Mcneyi-' 



