INDORSEMENT 5. This is inrolled in the remembrances of the Exchequer at Westminster of our Sovereign Lord King George the Third, of the fixth year of his reign, to wit, among the common matters of Michaelmas term, the firft roll in the cuftody of the King's. Remembrancer. King's Remembrancer's Office, 19th July 1765. WOOD for ARBUTHNOT. These are to certify that the within-named Thomas Mills, Efquire, hath given fecurity in the office of his Majefty's Remembrancer of the Exchequer at Weftminster, for the due execution of his within-mentioned office of Receiver General of the Revenues in the Province of Quebec, pursuant to a warrant from the Right Honourable the Lords Commiffioners of his Majesty's Treasury in that behalf.. WOOD for ARBUTHNOT. KING'S COMMISSION-Thomas Mills, Efquire, to be Receiver and Collector of the Revenues in the Province of Quebec : T Entered in the office of the Lords Commiffioners for Trade and Plantations. Entered in the office of Mr. Cholmondeley, Auditor General of America, this 19th Auguft 1765. 01 DAVID BALFOUR, Received into the Register's Office in Quebec, on Wednesday the 2d day of July 1766, at twelve o'clock at noon. J. GOLDFRAP, D. Regifter. Registered in faid office on Thursday the 3d day of July 1766, at ten o'clock forenoon, in register A. page 175, J. GOLDFRAP, D. Regifter. The duties paid in the time of the French government, To demand and receive the old time of the INSTRUCTIONS. HIS Majefty having by his commiffion under his royal fign manual, dated the 10th day of July 1765, appointed you Receiver General and Collector of all the patrimony, eftates, revenues, farms, taxes, tithes, duties, impofts, profits, and cafualties whatsoever (his revenue of cuftoms always excepted) belonging to his Majesty, and which had arisen or should arise within his Majefty's province of Quebec; and his Majesty having in the fame commiffion required you to follow fuch orders, rules, and inftructions as you fhould receive from his Majesty, as therein is 'mentioned, or from the commiffioners of his Majefty's treasury, or his Majesty's high treasurer for the time being; we the Commiffioners of his Majefty's Treafury, now being, have thought fit to give unto you the orders, rules, and inftructions herein after contained for your government in the execution of the truft committed to you in and by the said recited commiffion; that is to say: Whereas it appears unto us that the following duties were raised, payable, and paid for the fupport of government there while the country was fubject to the French king; that is to say, The In Sterling money. Livs. Sols. 12 1. S. d. Eau de vie de liqueur, per gallon, o 10 O O Dry goods imported, three per cent. on their valuation. O 5 We do hereby order and inftruct you to demand and receive the duties that were faid several duties, and that in fo doing you do ftrictly conform yourpayable in the felf to the ancient customs and ufages of the faid country before it was French govern- conquered by his Majefty; and that you demand and take all such and the like papers, orders, and inftructions for the regulation of your conduct in the faid office as formerly and ufually were given ment. to to those who had the management of the revenue of that country before the conqueft thereof; taking care that English and other brandies, eau de vie de liqueur, rum, and wines, from whatever parts they may arrive and be Imported into the faid province, do pay the like duties and rates thereupon as were formerly and ufually paid as aforefaid; and that the like rule be obferved by you in refpect of dry goods imported or exported, and allowing fuch and the like exemptions of duties and taxes as have formerly and ufually been allowed in the faid country whilft in the poffeffion of the French king. 4 public money i former officers And whereas it is neceffary that regular accounts fhould be made to demand an and exhibited by fuch of his Majefty's officers, who have had the account of all management of any of his eftates and revenues in the faid province the hands of y fince the conqueft thereof, you are hereby strictly enjoined to demand who have reof all the faid officers exact and complete accounts of all fums of ceived the fame; money, of the duties, fines upon alienations, taxes, and revenues of the crown whatsoever, which have arifen and grown due to his Majesty, and have been received for his Majefty's use by the faid officers, or any of them; and if any fuch duties and revenues are and to demand outstanding in the hands of the inhabitants who ought to have paid the inhabitants the fame, you are further strictly directed to make ufe of all legal any of the methods for the recovery thereof; and you are generally to purfue that remain un and use all fuch legal ways and methods as may be neceffary for the accounting for and recovering all monies due to his Majefty for any his faid duties and revenues of and in the said province from any. perfon or perfons whatsoever.. and recover of King's duties paid. fufpend inferi.. our officers oft We do likewise inftruct and authorize you to fufpend any officer Power to or officers belonging to the revenues under your charge for any mif behaviour in their departments; which fufpenfions are to be forth- the revenue.. with by you notified to the commiffioners of his Majesty's treasury, you appointing others in the mean, while to do the duty of the. perfons fo to be fufpended. fuch officers thall. poffible; And it is his Majesty's pleasure that no greater number of The number of officers fhall be employed than what may be fufficient to take care of be as fmall as the revenues and eftates under your charge; and that no greater or and their falaries further allowances or falaries thall be given to them than fuch as and profits no were annexed to their feveral offices while the faid country was der the French fubject to the French king. W.e greater than un- government.. cerning the whether or no it ent to lay them pen, To Inquire con · We having been informed that the pofts and places of refort, to King's pofts, which the Indians and favage nations used at ftated times of the is molt expedi- year to come with their furs and peltries, were formerly kept as part of the King's domain and eftate, but that a leafe of the faid pofts and places hath been granted by Governour Murray to a company of merchants for a term of years upon the fame plan as when the country was fubject to the French king: you are hereby strictly directed to examine into the nature and condition of that leafe, and acquaint us for his Majefty's information, whether, in your opinion, by the continuance of the faid leafe the confidence of the favages may be gained, and their affections to his Majefty's government be conciliated and preferved in the most effectual manner, or whether the faid purposes may not be better answered and obtained by opening a free intercourse of trade between them and the province. Lands of r• gious houks Application of the monies e And whereas the lands of feveral religious focieties in the faid province, particularly thofe of the fociety of the Jefuits, are, or will become, part of his Majefty's revenue, you are therefore to endeavour, by agreements to be made with the perfons interested for the present in any the faid eftates, to take the faid eftates into your charge, giving unto them refpectively fuch competent allowance thereout for their lives as you may judge proper, taking care that these lands may not be fequeftered or alienated from his Majesty. You are from time to time to acquaint the lords of the treasury of your proceedings herein. And, for better enabling the proper officer to collect the duties upon importation and exportation within the faid province, you are upon your arrival in Canada to give him the most exact accounts and lifts of the duties upon importation and exportation which were raised whilst the country was subject to the French king, so that he may conform in every thing to what was the ancient ufage of the country before the conqueft: and he is to account with you from time to time, and to pay the clear amounts of receipts into your hands for defraying the expences of civil officers and contingencies of government in that province. You are to apply the monies which shall come to your hands of ceived by the the faid duties and revenues, in the first place, for and towards receiver general defraying the necessary expences of government, and the necessary charges of public expence managing the revenue under your care; remitting home by good The overplus bills of exchange the furpluffes of the monies which from time to necellary for the time shall remain in your hands after payment of thofe expences, in at Quebec is to order that the fame may be applied to the reimburfing the public be remitted to here the monies which have been neceffarily advanced for that province by reason that the aforefaid duties and taxes have not been levied within the two years laft past. England. Annual accounts> of all receipts and payments England.. And lastly, we charge and require you annually to tranfmit to the commiffioners of his Majesty's treasury for the time being exact accounts of all your receipts and payments, and other your are to be fent to transactions in the premises, taking care that duplicates thereof be fent by different fhips to prevent the confequences of any mifcarriages by dangers of the feas. Given under our hands at the Treasury Chambers in Whitehall, (Signed) WM. DOWDESWELL. J. CAVENDISH. GEO. ONSLOW. To our very loving friend Thomas Mills, Efquire, Instructions to the King's Receiver in the Province of Quebec.. NUM BE. R |