CONVENT OF HOTEL DIEU OF QUEBEC

This is a community of women particularly instituted for the care of thesick.

They had been in good circumstances, but their house having been entirely consumed by fire a few years ago, they are considerably indebted for the rebuilding of it.

This house has two distinct purses, one belonging to the community, another to the poor.

The former owes about 108,000 livres to different Artificers and for sums borrowed towards rebuilding the Convent.

They have a rent charge upon the

Hotel de Ville of Paris, which

brings them in... sise 1330 Livres.

A Seigneurie in Charlebourg, with estates and garden in this Town. 3500 For its share of the 7,500 paid by the King.

Livres 7830

They keep some pretty large farms in their hands, cultivated by their domesticks, out of the produce whereof they are at present chiefly subsisted.

Number of Nums.

(a) Invalids

The poor have a rent charge on the Hotel de Ville of Paris, foundation of a Dutchess d’Aiguillon

The Lordship of St. Augus- GUN svsucsos vovossoae 00000 00 0808 60

Their other estates in the suburbs of Quebec including a small oneinthe Island of Orleans produce

Livres 646 12 0

Livres 6346 12 0 CONVENT OF THE URSULINES OF DITTO.

This is likewise a community of women, their institution is for the education of young girls.

They have a rent charge on the Hotel de Ville of Paris Livres 1400 A farm in Normandy 900 The Lordship of Port Neuf in this country, and St. Croix, Their other estates in and about this Town 0 0

Livres 4032 0 0

The chief estate of this community consists in their Boarders, and a number of little ingenious works, for which there

(a) They are not in ciroumstance to take in any.

is a great demand, by means of which they live decently and comfortably.