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500	0	0	From the Marine appointments	12,000
125	0	0	From Do allowance for Freight of necessaries from France	3,000
18	5	0	From the Domaine in lieu of duties he paid	450
187	10	0	From the E. India Compy a present of one and a half per Ct on all the Beaver exported by them at a medium	4,500
50	0	0	From the Marine allowance for a Secretary	1,200
50	0	0	From Do for a Gardiner	1,200
930	15	0		22,350
13,961	12	10½	From the foregoing it appears that the Country duties raised in 1757 together with the other Revenues belonging to the King produced that Year the sum of		335,079	8	11
11,158	10	5¼	From which deducting the Etat du Roy amounting to 114,180. And the expenses ordered on this side by the Intendant 153,624 10 6		267,804	10	6
2,803	2	5¼	Remained a surplus of		67,274	18	5

Which surplus when there was any, was paid by the Receiver General of the Kings domaine, into the hands of the Commis of the Treasurer General of the Marine as an addition to that Fund, out of which all the general expences were paid. Such as the Subsistence and provision of the eight Battalions, Forty Companies of Marines and Detachment of Royal Artillery serving in Canada, the officer of the naval Yard of Quebec, and in short all the ordinary and extraordinary expences attending the Military and Civil Government of Canada the officers of the Court of Admiralty only excepted, who were paid by the High Admiral of France.

The expence of Government in this Country was formerly very moderate, for a series of Years to that of 1726, it never exceeded 360,000 Livres; the two ensuing ones it was advanced to about half a Million, on account of the Colonies being at War at that time, with the Indian nation of Renards. From this period it gradually increased to a Million, and from the breaking out of the war with Great Britain in 1744, till peace was concluded with her in 1748, the annual expence amounted to about 2 Millions

In the month of August in that very Year the late Intendant M^r Bigoe came over, the expences have ever encreased and to 1753 inclusive did not amount to less than three, four, or five Millions every Year.

	In	1754	Bills were drawn on France for	6,000,000
		1755		5,500,000
		1756		8,000,000
		1757		12,000,000
		1758		24,000,000
		1759		30,000,000
		1760	The Intendant was directed not to exceed two Million four hundred thousand Livres and drew only for	1,300,000
			To the above is to be added thePaper Money remaining in the Country, and for which no Letters of Exchange have been drawn	22,000,000
4,533,333	6	8		108,800,000
3,333,333	6	8	Of the whole upon the most moderate computation, at least 80 Millions are still owing

The manner of transacting the business is thus. The Intendant for every expence emitted the ordonnances, which passed current with his bare signature only, one of which, (No 4.) is annexed to shew the nature of it; in August notice was given to the proprietors, to bring into the Treasury within the Month of September, and untill the 10^th of October, the Ordonnances in their possession, for which they took the Treasurers receipt, and commenced drawing the Letters of Exchange, which continued fifteen or twenty days, or till the navigation was shut up.

From the Year 1740, to that of 1746 Letters of Exchange were drawn only for three fourths of the value brought into the Treasury; these indeed payable in 6, 7, 8, or 9 months, when they were duly discharged, the remaining fourth was reimbursed the proprietors, by a Card Money, of which there is to the amount of near a Million still existing in the Colony.

From 1746, to 1752, Letters of Exchange were drawn for the full sum brought into the Treasury and were all made payable sometime within the ensuing Year.

But the expences having encreased considerably orders were given to to divide those of the Year into three equal parts payable in 1, 2, or 3 Years. This was put in execution in 1753, but the very Year following another arrangement took place; only one fourth part was made payable in the course of the ensuing Year, one half two Years after that and the remaining fourth in three; and this Method was ever after observed 'till the Year 1760. By this means a great number of those drawn in the preceding Years, were not come in course of payment, when the Kings Arret of October 1759 suspended payment entirely

NB^e the Clerks of the Marine and other Officers employ'd in that department, having left the Country it has not been possible to procure certain accounts of the expences of that branch.

Throughout these calculations and in every other part of this Report, The French Livre to avoid Fractions is esteemed at ten pence Ster^lg.