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and inconvenience. On the north side of the 

 St. Lawrence they are, it is true, identified with 

 the seignorial divisions ; but on the south side 

 they are only ideal lines, prolonged to the 

 boundary of the province, not only cutting se- 

 veral townships, but even farm lots in them, by 

 which they are placed in two districts. The 

 evil consequence of this has been frequently 

 apparent in judicial proceedings, when persons 

 summoned to attend the courts of law have 

 gone from a great distance, and at much ex- 

 pense, — to Montreal, for instance, — before they 

 discovered that their attendance was required 

 in the district court of Three Rivers, and so 

 with respect to the others. Men living far in 

 the interior cannot be supposed to have a criti- 

 cal knowledge of the direction that an imagin- 

 ary line should take, even though it be liable 

 to interfere with their rights and privileges ; it 

 ought, therefore, to be made plain to then], and 

 which certainly could be accomplished without 

 difficulty. It might be done by having the 

 boundaries surveyed and marked in the field 

 along their whole line, if it be deemed prefer- 

 able for them to preserve a straight direction; or 

 otherwise, they might be made to run along the 

 limits of the townships that they now intersect, 

 and which, although irregular, would thereby 

 be as exactly defined as by any other method, 



