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building. The ground floor apartments are 

 disposed for holding the quarter sessions, and 

 other inferior courts, offices of clerks of the 

 different courts of law, &c. &c. Above stairs 

 there is a spacious chamber, in which the 

 courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas, 

 the Court of Appeals, and the Admiralty Court 

 are held, with separate offices for the high 

 sheriffs and other magistrates, and a room for 

 the occasional convening of militia courts- 

 martial. In the same building is the hall and 

 offices of the corporation of the Trinity-house of 

 Quebec, established by an act of the Provincial 

 Parliament in the 45th year of George the 3d. 

 The embellishments of this edifice, both interior 

 and external, are in a style of simplicity and 

 neatness ; the arrangements for public busi- 

 ness methodical and judicious ; the whole may 

 be considered a great ornament to the city, 

 and does honour to the liberality of the pro- 

 vince, thus to provide for the easy and expe- 

 ditious administration of justice. It occupies 

 part of the site upon which stood an old 

 monastery, church, and garden of the Recol- 

 lets, destroyed by fire in the year 1796 : it was 

 at one time a very extensive establishment, 

 covering the whole space between the parade, 

 Rue des Jardins, de St. Louis, and de Ste. 

 Anne; the order is now extinct in Canada* 



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