ACTE DE VENTE DU PALAIS ÉPISCOPAL—1er AOUT

On the first day of August in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one. Before the undersigned Public notaries duly commissioned and sworn in and for the Province of Lower Canada, resident in the citv of Quebec, in the said Province, personally come, appeared and were present 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, all 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 the first year of His Majesty’s reign acting in the name and on behalf of His Majesty, His Heirs and successors, of the other part; which said parties did declare, covenant, promise and agree 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 thereunto belonging, situated in the city of Quebec aforesaid, upon the terms and conditions in the said

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act ofthe Provincial Parliament mentioned. And whereas the said William Burns Lindsay, Jacques Leblond, the elder, and Gustavus William Wickstead, as such commissioners as aforesaid have 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, and most especially, according to the plan and procès-verbal made and drawn by Lemaître-Lamorille, Surveyor, rccognized 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 presents witness that the said Very Reverend Bernard Claude Panet, Catholic Bishop 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 and made over unto HisMajesty, His Heirs and successors the said episcopal palace and ground thereunto belonging or attached, situated in the city of Quebec aforesaid, particulariy described in a plan thereof made as aforesaid, hereto annexed and signed by the said parties and by us the srid notaries 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 perehes, and two hundred and five feet in superficies ; bounded as folluws, that is to say: on the north west by the 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 À, P,0 ; on the north west and south sides by Mountain street, and on the east partly by the walls of the fortifi-

cations, and partly by a lane adjoining the properties of