SEMINARY OF QUEBEC

These are secular Clergy ; their institution is to educate the youth and fit

them for the priesthood. They have à large house and Chapel in the city of Quebec, both in a ruinous condition ever since the siege of 1759; it is a dependance upon the Seminary for foreign missions at Paris, who nominate the Superior and Directors of that of Quebec, and the whole extent of the country from the Sault de Montmorenci to the river du Goufre in the bay of St. Paul’s inclusively, and the Islands of Coudres. This immense tract does not bring them in very considerably; their great revenue in these parts arising from the two large farms in the parish of St. Joachim, where before the breaking out of the war, they had between three and four hundred head of Cattle ; on their estate in the bay of St. Pau’'s, they discovered some years ago, a lead mine ; the veins which have been tried are slight, but two Germans who were brought over to the country on account of the like discoveries in the upper country, examined thisand thought it worth the working ; the war has prevented making further essays upon it.

The income of their estate in this Government is about 9,000 livres per annum.

They consist at present only of the Superior and four Directors.