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the counsellor to the king at Paris, bearing date 

 20th April, 1664, by which the seminary of St. 

 Sulpicius in that city, and other persons con- 

 cerned with them, granted to the seminary in 

 Canada the lands and seigniory of Montreal ; 

 3d. An arret of the council of state of his most 

 Christian Majesty, made at Versailles in the 

 month of March, 1693, by which the king agrees 

 to and accepts the surrender made to him by the 

 ecclesiastics of the seminary of St. Sulpicius, 

 at Paris, of all the property possessed by them 

 in the island of Montreal ; and 3dly, Letters 

 patent, in form of an edict, issued by the King 

 of France in July 1714, being a confirmation 

 of all titles to the lands granted to the ecclesi- 

 astics of the said seminary, at Paris, by letters 

 patent, dated March 1677, with the right of 

 alienation. As early as the year 1657 a large 

 part of this, even at that period valuable pro- 

 perty, was cleared and settled, under the di- 

 rection of the Abbe Quetus, who had arrived 

 from France with authority from the seminary 

 for that and other purposes. The island is di- 

 vided into the following nine parishes, St. Ann, 

 St. Genevieve, Point Claire, La Chine, Sault 

 au Recollet, St. Laurent, Riviere des Prairies, 

 Pointe-au-Tremble, and Longue Pointe, There 

 are altogether 1376 concessions, formed into 

 ranges, or as they are termed cotes, distinguished 



