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profits, and privileges thereunto belonging in as full and ample manner as the minifters of churches in any of our colonies in America have usually held and enjoyed, or of right ought to hold and enjoy, the fame. And for fo doing this fhall be your warrant. And fo we bid you heartily farewel.

Given at our court at Saint James's, the 12th day of February 1768, in the eighth year of our reign.

By his Majesty's command.

HILLSBOROUGH.

N. B. This royal mandate feems to be founded upon a fuppofition that the King is general patron of all the ecclefiaftical benefices in the province, agreeably to the clause to that purpose in the commiffion of captain-general and governour in chief. See above, page 98.

A DRAUGHT of a COMMISSION to the Reverend Mr. DAVID FRANCIS DE MONTMOLLIN to be Rector of the Church of QUEBEC, made in pursuance of, and conformably to, the King's Mandate for that Purpose, dated on the 12th Day of February 1768.

GEORGE the THIRD, by the Grace of God, King of Great Britain and the Territories thereunto belonging, Defender of the Faith, and fo forth; To all to whom these Presents shall come, fendeth Greeting:

WH HEREAS the church of Quebec, in our province of

Quebec, is now vacant; and whereas the gift, collation, and free difpofition of the said church doth fully and intirely belong to us in right of our crown of Great Britain: and whereas we have received a good report of the piety, learning, and abilities, and

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likewise of the loyalty, prudent conduct, and fober converfation of our trufty and well-beloved David Francis de Montmollin, clerk, and are perfuaded that he is a fit perfon to fill the faid church, and to have the care of the fouls of our good subjects in the parish of the fame committed to him :

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Now know ye that we, for thefe and other good reafons and causes us thereunto moving, and of our especial grace, certain knowledge, and mere motion, have given, conferred, and granted, and, Gift, or collaby these our prefent letters, do give, confer, and grant the faid church of Quechurch of Quebec to the faid David Francis de Montmollin; and bec to Mr. de do ordain, make, and conftitute him, the said David Francis, curate Appointment of and rector of the fame, and minister of the holy gospel in the parish and rector of of the fame; provided that he, the faid David Francis, fhall, before he the fame. takes poffeffion of the faid church, take an oath upon the holy gospels of Almighty God to pay lawful and canonical obedience to our Oath of canoniright trusty and well-beloved Richard, the lord bishop of London, the bishop of and his fucceffors, bishops of London, under whofe fpiritual jurisdiction we have thought proper to place our aforefaid province of Quebec; and likewife that, by another folemn oath upon the holy Oath of abjuragofpels, he fhall renounce, deny, and reject all, and all manner of Pope's power foreign jurifdiction, power, authority, and fuperiority whatsoever, jurifdiction, and fpiritual as well as temporal, and fhall acknowledge our royal authority to be fupreme in all causes and matters whatsoever, ecclefiaftical as King's ecclewell as temporal, according to the force, form, and effect of a macy. certain ftatute of the parliament of the realm of England in that cafe made and provided: which oaths the said David Francis shall take before the chief justice of our faid province of Quebec in open court, at one of the feffions of the fupreme court of judicature holden before the faid chief juftice, whom we do hereby authorize and require to adminifter the faid oaths unto the faid David Francis:

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To have, hold, and enjoy the faid church of Quebec, together Habendum. with all rights, dues, profits, and privileges thereunto belonging, in as full and ample a manner as any minifters of churches in any of our colonies in America have usually held and enjoyed, or of right

• This claufe of general reference to all the colonies in America, without mentioning any one in particular, feems to be very vague and uncertain, and was inferted only in order to make the commiffion intirely conformable to the royal mandate on which it was founded. See above, pages 127, 131, 134.

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ought to hold or enjoy, the fame, for and during the natural life of him, the faid David Francis de Montmollin.

In witness whereof we have caused these our letters to be made patent, and the public feal of our province to be affixed thereunto this day of July, in the eighth year of our reign, and in the year of our Lord Jefus Chrift one thousand feven hundred and fixty-eight.

Given at our castle of Saint Lewis at Quebec in our province
of Quebec aforefaid, on the day and
year above-mentioned.

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This commiffion has not been paffed,-July 10, 1769.

N. B. In making the foregoing draught of a commiffion to Mr.. de Montmollin to be rector of the church of Quebec, or rather of the collation, or gift, of the faid church to Mr. de Montmollin, I have followed the words of the King's mandamus as closely as poffible, and have fupplied what was further wanting to it from two precedents in the appendix to bishop Gibson's codex, the one of a donation of a donative church or chapel, the other of the collation or gift of a church by a bishop, to whom the right of giving it away is devolved from the patron of it by lapfe of time.

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NUMBER XXIV.

COMMISSION of RECEIVER GENERAL.

GEORGE R.

GEORGE the THIRD, by the Grace of God, King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, and so forth; To all to whom thefe Prefents shall come, Greeting :

KNOW ye that we, repofing especial truft and confidence in the

ability and prudent circumfpection of our trufty and well-beloved L. S. Thomas Mills, Efquire, and his fitnefs for the performance of the truft hereby intended by us to be committed unto him, have constituted Appointment." and appointed, and by these prefents do conftitute and appoint, L. S. him, the said Thomas Mills, to be, during our pleasure, the Habendum. Receiver General and Collector of all the royal patrimony, rents, revenues, farms, taxes, tithes, duties, impofts, profits, and casualties whatsoever (our revenue of cuftoms always excepted) belonging unto us, and which have arisen or fhall arife within our province of Quebec.

Hereby giving and granting unto the faid Thomas Mills full power and authority to afk, demand, and receive all fums of money fo due, and to become due, unto us, and to give acquittances for the fame, and (if need be) to pursue and profecute the recovery the faid rents, duties, impofts, profits, and other things abovementioned, by all just and lawful ways and means.

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die Aprilis 1766. recept. Scaccarii imo BARTH. LUCAS. Intrat in officio auditoris

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And we do hereby require him, the faid Thomas Mills, in the The receiver execution of the truft hereby committed unto him, and in all things general is to act concerning the fame, to obferve and follow, and govern himself fuch inftrucaccording to, fuch orders, rules, and inftructions as he shall receive receive from the from us by any warrant or writing under our royal fign manual, of the treasury. counterfigned by the commiffioners of our treasury for the time being, or from the faid commiffioners of our treasury, or our high treasurer for the time being.

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And also to render into our Exchequer, according to the due Exchequer for courfe thereof, an account of, and duly anfwer unto us, all monies which he shall have received in virtue hereof.

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And in confideration of the labour, pains, charges, and expences which the faid Thomas Mills may be at in the execution of the faid office, and for the whole charge thereof and in lieu of all fees, profits, and advantages on accouut of the faid office, we do hereby grant and allow to him, the faid Thomas Mills, a yearly falary or Salary 2001. per allowance of two hundred pounds Sterling, to be retained by him. out of the faid rents, revenues, and incomes, and to commence. from the day of the date hereof, and to be accounted payable unto him for and during his continuance in the faid office.

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And we do hereby command and require all our officers and ministers and loving fubjects whatsoever, in their several and respective stations and places, to be aiding and affifting to the said Thomas Mills in all things to be done and performed by him in the due execution of this our commiffion.

And the faid. Thomas Mills is strictly required not to enter upon. Exchequer for the execution of the faid office until he hall have given fecurity in our Exchequer to the good liking of the commiffioners of our. treasury for the due execution thereof.

the due execution of this

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Given at our court at St. James's this 10th day of July 1765, in the 5th year of our reign.

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Thomas Mills, Efq; to be Receiver and Collector of the
Revenuesin the Province of Quebec.

N. B. The falary of this office has been fince increafed to 4001. per

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