ACTE DE VENTE DU PALAIS ÉPISCOPAL— 1er AOUT

On the first day of August in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight liundred and tliirty-one. Before the undersigned Public notariés duly commissioned and sworn in and for the Province of Lower Canada, résident in the city of Quebec, in the said Province, personally corne, appeared and were présent the Very Reverend Bernard Claude Panet, Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Quebec, of the one part; and William Burns Lindsay, Jacques Leblond, the elder, and Gustavus William Wickstead, ail of the city of Quebec aforesaid, Esquires, Commissioners named and appointed under and by virtue of and in pursuance of the *sixteenth chapter of the Statutes of the Parliament of the said Provinced passed in tlie first year of His Majesty’s reign acting in the name and on behalf of His Majesty, His Heirs and successors, of the otlier part ; which said jiarties did déclaré, covenant, promise and agréé to^and with each other in manner following, that is to say: Whereas the said Very Reverend Bernard Claude Panet continues willing to cede to the said Province the property of the Episcopal Palace and of the ground tliereunto belonging, situated in the city of Quebec aforesaid, upon the ternis and conditions in the said

act of the Provincial Parliament mentioned. And whereas the said William Burns Lindsay, Jacques Leblond, the elder, and Gustavus William Wickstead, as such commissioners as aforesaid hâve caused a correct plan to be made of the ground whereon the said building is erected and of the whole ground thereunto attached according to the several plans and title deeds relating to the same, andmost especially, according to the plan and procès-verbal made and drawn by Lemaître-Lamorille, Surveyor, recognized by a judgment rendered by Mr. Bigot, the Intendant of the Province, bearing date the twenty-third day of January, one thousand seven hundred and fifty-nine. Now these présents witness that the said Very Reverend Bernard Claude Panet, Catholic Bisliop of the diocese of Quebec for himself and for his successors Catholic Bishops of the said diocese of Quebec or other persons having the administration of the said diocese of Quebec, hath surrendered, transferred andmade over unto Ilis Majesty, His Heirs and successoi’s the said épiscopal palace and ground thereunto belonging or attached, situated in the city of Quebec aforesaid, particularly clescribed in a plan thereof made as aforesaid, hereto annexed and signed by the said parties and by us the said notariés for the letter identification thereof, and which said lot of ground is of an irregular polygond form, containing seventy-six thousand nine hundred and ninety-three feet,french measure, equal to two hundred and thirty-seven perches, and two hundred andfive feet in superficies ; bounded as follows, that is to say : on the north west bythe censive*of the seminary of Quebec, denoted on the plan by the line AB, and by the property ofthe widow and heirs of the late Morin, described in the plan by the letters A, P, O ; on the north west and south sides by Mountain Street, and on the east partly by the walls of the fortifications, and partly by a lane adjoining the properties of

Amiot, Laurent and Trudel, as tlie same are described in the aforesaid plan of the sanie annexed to these présents. To liave and tohold the said épiscopal palace and ground hereby surrendered and transferred unto His Majesty, liis heirs and successors tor the public uses of the civil government of the said province for ever. And these .présents further witness that the said parties hâve covenanted and agreed to and with each other that the said surrender and transfer is ruade, and that the same and the said épiscopal Palace and ground hereby surrendered and transferred shall at ail times hereafter be held subject to the following conditions. First, that there shall be paid to the Catholic Bishop of Quebec and his successors as such, or to the person lraving the administration of the said Diocese of Quebec for the time being and of the public moneys of the Province, a perpétuai and annual ground rent not subject to rédemption (une rente foncière annuelle, perpétuelle et non rachetable) of one thousand pounds sterling per annum. Secondly, that the said rent shall be paid by warrant under the hand of the Governor, Lieutenant Governor or person administering the Government by half yearly payments. Thirdly, that the said rent shall be épiscopal property and shall represent the said ground and building, and shall as such hâve to ail intents and purjjoses, the same destination as the said ground and building would hâve had if the surrender and transfer thereof by these présents had never been made. For the due execution of these présents, the same parties make élection of domicile irrevocable at the office of Archibald Campbell, His Maje«ty’s Notary, and one of the undersigned here. Thus done and passed at Quebec, in the office of the said Archibald Campbell, the date first above vvritten.

In witness whereof the said parties hâve hereunto set and

suscribed their names and signatures in the presence of us the said notariés, also liereto suseribjng. In faith and testimony of the promises, tkese présents being first duly read. Signed on the original.

f Bern. CLe , Cath. Bishop of Quebec, Wm.-B. Lindsay, Commissioner,

Jacques Leblond, Commissioner,

G. W. Wickstead, Commissioner,

Ed. Glaokmeyer, N. P.,

Arch. Campbell, Ilis Majesty’s Notary and Notary Public.