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Who was appointed intendant of Quebec, in 1684* 

 and who is now in the fame employ at Havre de* 

 Grace, found himfelf foon embarraffed as well with 

 refpect to the payment of the troops, as to the other 

 expences the king miift be at in this colony^ 



And befides 1 the funds which were fent from 

 France, arrived almoft always too late, the firft of 

 January being the day on which it was abfolutely 

 neceffary to pay the officers and foldiers, as well as 

 to defray other charges equally indifpenfable. To 

 obviate the moft preffing demands, M. de Cham- 

 pigny thought proper to iflue certain bills, which 

 mould ftand in place of coin, taking care, however, 

 conftantly to obferve the augmentation of the value 

 of the money. A verbal procefs was drawn up of 

 this proceeding, and, by virtue of an ordinance of 

 the governor- general and intendant, every piece of 

 this money, which was made of cards, had its va- 

 lue, with the mark of the treafury, and the arms 

 of France, ftamped upon it* as were thofe of the 

 governor and intendant in Spanifti wax. After- 

 wards paper money was ftruck in France, and ftamp- 

 ed with the fame impreftion as the current- money 

 of the realm, and it was ordained, that the bills 

 mould be returned into the treafury of Canada every 

 year, before the arrival of the fhips from France, 

 in order to receive an additional mark to prevent 

 the introducing of counterfeits. 



This paper^money was of no long continuance, fo 

 that they returned to the ufe of card- money, on which 

 new imprefiions were ftamped. The intendant 

 figned fuch bills as were of four livres and upwards 

 value, only marking the others. In latter times, 

 the governor- general figned alfo fuch as were of fix 

 livres and above, In the beginning of the Autumn, 

 K 2 all 



