THE CHAPTER OF QUEBEC

The Chapter consisted of a Dean and twelve Canons, their revenue consisted of an Abbey in France, which brought them in about four thousand livres, and a pension from the King of eight thousand, paid out of the Domaine, the whole was divided into fourteen shares, of which the Dean had two.

There is one vacancy in the Chapter;

the present Bishop, the Abbé de la Corne, a Canadian, and five of the Canons are in France.

The Town and suburbs form but one parish, which is very extensive, and is served by a Curé with two Vicars under

him ; the Church is Parochial as well as Cathedral, no part of it is left standing but the bare walls ; a Chapel of ease in the Lower Town was likewise burned during the siege.

The people at present perform their devotions in the Chapels of the several Religious Communities; some part of the Lordship of Quebec is the property of the Catheral or parish Church, stiled here, la Fabrique, and is appropriated to the repairs of it; a dispute subsists between the Chapter and Seminary about the nomination of the Curé, the affair was to have been judged by the King but was still undecided.