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This is a community of Women, they have a Foundation for taking care of Thirty Invalids, Idiots or Incurables, which they are at present in no condition to fulfil, their revenues being no way equal to the expence, and as a large sum is owing them by the King of France for the sick of his army. In the time of the French they were allowed rations for as many of the above as they took in and a pension of 2,000 Livres. The Ladies of this community are of the best Families in Canada and by the presents they were continually receiving from them they were chiefly enabled to subsist; That revenue is now at an end, as the Gentry in general are at present in the most distressed circumstances.

They owe a very large debt contracted in a good measure for the support of the sick Officers and Soldiers of the French Army. The French King owes them a large sum, sufficient to discharge it, but they must be reduced to the utmost beggary and distress if he does not; The sale of all their houses and Lands will scarce be sufficient to satisfy their Creditors.

Their whole estate in this Country does not bring them in at the most above	5,000	Livres.
A rent on the Hotel de Ville at Paris	1,800	— —	6,800
Their Number Nuns	33
Invalids	33	— —	66