be assisting, or otherwise concerned in the bringing or removing such Goods, or to whose Hands the same shall come, knowing that they were brought or removed contrary to this Act, shall forfeit treble the Value of such Goods, to be estimated and computed according to the best Price that each respective Commodity bears in the Town of Quebec, at the Time such Offence shall be committed; and all the Horses, Cattle, Boats, Vessels, and other Carriages whatsoever, made use of in the Removal, Carriage, or Conveyance of such Goods, shall also be forfeited and lost, and shall and may be seized by any Officer of his Majesty's Customs, and prosecuted as hereinafter mentioned.

IV. And it is hereby further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the said Penalties and Forfeitures by this Act inflicted, shall be sued for and prosecuted in any Court of Admiralty, or Vice-Admiralty, having jurisdiction within the said Province, and the same shall and may be recovered and divided in the same Manner and Form, and by the same Rules and Regulations in all Respects as other Penalties and Forfeitures for Offences against the Laws relating to the Customs and Trade of his Majesty's Colonies in America shall or may, by any Act or Acts of Parliament be sued for, prosecuted, recovered and divided.

V. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That there shall from and after the fifth Day of April, one thousand seven hundred and seventy five, be raised, levied, collected and paid unto his Majesty's Receiver-General of the said Province for the Use of his Majesty, his Heirs and Successors, a Duty of one Pound sixteen Shillings, Sterling Money of Great Britain, for every License that shall be granted by the Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, or Commander-in-Chief of the said Province to any Person or Persons for keeping a House or any other place of publick Entertainment, or for the retailing Wine, Brandy, Rum, or

any other Spirituous Liquors within the said Province; and any Person keeping any such House or place of Entertainment, or retailing any such Liquors without such License shall forfeit and pay the Sum of ten Pounds for every such Offence, upon Conviction thereof; one Moiety to such Person as shall inform or prosecute for the same, and the other Moiety shall be paid into the Hands of the Receiver-General of the Province for the Use of his Majesty.

VI. Provided always, That nothing herein contained shall extend or be construed to extend to discontinue, determine, or make void any Part of the territorial or casual Revenues, Fines, Rents, or Profits whatsoever, which were reserved to, and belonged to his Most Christian Majesty, before and at the Time of the Conquest and Surrender thereof to his Majesty, the King of Great Britain; but that the same and every one of them, shall remain and be continued to be levied, collected, and paid in the same Manner as if this Act had never been made; anything therein contained to the contrary notwithstanding.

VII. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That if any Action or Suit shall be commenced against any Person or Persons for any thing done in pursuance of this Act, and if it shall appear to the Court or Judge where or before whom the same shall be tried, that such Action or Suit is brought for any thing that was done in pursuance of, and by the Authority of this Act, the Defendant or Defendants shall be indemnified and acquitted for the same;. and if such Defendant or Defendants shall be so acquitted; or if the Plaintiff shall discontinue such Action or Suit, such Court or Judge shall award to the Defendant or Defendants Treble Costs.

APPENDIX II.

AUTHORITIES.

No attempt is made here to furnish a complete bibliography. I have tried to make use of all the material that might bear on the subject; to give a full catalogue of the books consulted would scarcely be possible, and would certainly appear pedantic. In the following list I include in the main therefore, only titles to which reference has actually been made. The arrangement is alphabetical:

ALBEMARLE (Earl of). Memoirs of the Marquis of Rockingham and his Contemporaries. (2 v. London, 1852.)

ALMON (J.). Anecdotes of the Life of Mr. Pitt, Earl of Chatham. (London, 1793.)

ALMON (J.). The Remembrancer: A Repository of Passing Events. (J. Dodsley, London, 1774, 1775, 1776.)

FORCE (Editor), American Archives. (Fourth Series, 1774-6, 6 vols.Washington, 1837-46. Fifth Series, 1776-83, 3 vols.-Washington, 1848-53.)

ASHLEY (W. J.). Lectures on Canadian Constitutional History. (University of Toronto.)

BANCROFT (George). History of the United States. (Author's last revision. 6 v. New York, 1884-5.)

BOURINOT (J. G.). Manual of the Constitutional History of Canada. (Montreal, 1888.)

BOURINOT, (J. G.). Parliamentary Procedure and Practice in Canada. (Montreal, 1892.)

BURKE (Edmund). Correspondence. (8 v. London, 1852.)

British Statutes at Large. (London, 1776.)

Calendar of Home Office Papers of the Reign of George III. (1760-5; 1766-9; 1770-2. London, 1878-81.) Published under direction of the Master of the Rolls.

CANADIAN ARCHIVES. Furnishing the substance of the greater part of the study. The material therefor is collected in the following series of copies of British State Papers:

a. State Papers and Correspondence concerning the Province of

Quebec, 1760-80. [The MS. copies of the more important documents
have been compared with the originals or original duplicates in the
Record and Colonial Offices, London. The series is calendared as Q in
the Reports of the Canadian Archivist, beginning with that for 1890.
It includes the complete official correspondence between the Secre-
taries of State for the Southern Department and the Colonies, the
Board of Trade, and the Colonial officials, together with copies of
the more important papers belonging more properly to the Privy
Council and the Treasury. With all documents concerned.]
b. The Haldimand Papers. [A copy in 232 MS. volumes of the col-
lection (deposited in the British Museum) of official and other mat-
ter accumulated by General Haldimand, long and prominently con-
nected with Quebec, and Governor-in-Chief 1778-83. This series
has been calendared as B in the Reports of the Canadian Archivist
(1884-9), and has been used mainly through that guidance.]
CARROLL (John). Life of. (Md. Hist. Soc. 1876.)

CHATHAM (Earl of). Correspondence. Edited by Taylor and Pringle.
(London, 1838. 4 vol.)

CHRISTIE (Robert). History of the late Province of Lower Canada.
(Montreal, 1866. 6 v.)

CLARK (Charles). A Summary of Colonial Law, etc. (London, 1834).
Collections of the Rhode Island Historical Society. (Providence,
1827-85.)

Connecticut, The Public Records of the Colony of. [Referred to as
Col. Records of Conn.] (Hartford, 1850-90.)

STEPHENS (Editor), Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. XXVI.
Article Hill, Wills. (London.)

DURHAM (Earl of). The Report on the Affairs of British North
America. (London, J. W. Southgate.)

EDWARDS (Bryan). The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British
Colonies in the West Indies. (4 v. Phila., 1806.)

FITZMAURICE (Lord Edmund). Life of William, Earl of Shelburne.
(3 v. London, 1876.)

FRANKLIN (Benjamin). Complete Works. Compiled and edited by John
Bigelow. (10 v. New York and London, 1887-8).

GARNEAU (F.X.). Histoire du Canada depuis la decouverte jusqu'à
nos jours. (2 v. Quebec, 1845-6.)

GAYARRE. Louisiana under Spanish Domination. (New York, 1854.)
Grenville Papers. (London, 1852.)

HART (A. B.). Formation of the Union, 1750-1829. (New York, 1892.)
HENRY (J. J.). Account of the Campaign against Quebec. (Albany,

1877.)

HINSDALE (B. A.) The Old Northwest. (New York, 1888.)

Historical Manuscripts Commission, Reports of. (London,-Eyre and Spottiswoode.)

HOUSTON (William). Documents illustrative of Canadian Constitutional History. (Toronto, 1891).

JONES (C. H.). Campaign for the Conquest of Canada, 1775-6. (Phila., 1882.) Journals of the survivors of Arnold's Expedition against Quebec, 1775-6. [These can be easily referred to through the names and dates given in the text. A full list, with exact titles and references for finding, will be found in the Proceedings Mass. Hist. Soc. 2nd Series II (1885-6), pp. 265-7. Another list with further bibliographical infortion is furnished as a Preface to Thayer's Journal, in Coll. Rhode Island Hist. Soc. (Providence, 1867) pp. IV-VII].

Journal of the Principal Occurrences During the Siege of Quebec ; collected from some old MSS. originally written by an officer during the period of the gallant defense made by Sir Guy Carleton. With Preface and notes by W. T. P. Shortt. (London, 1824.)

Journal of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, during his visit to Canada in 1776. Edited by Brantz Meyer. (Md. Hist. Soc. Papers. Centennial Memorial volume, 1876.)

Journal of Congress. Vols. I. II. (Phila. 1777.)

KINGSFORD (W).

The History of Canada. (8 volumes published. Toronto, 1887-95.)

LAREAU (Edmund). Histoire du Droit Canadien. (2 v. Montreal,

1888-9.)

LECKY (W. E. H.). A History of England in the Eighteenth Century.

(8 v. London, 1892.)

LOSSING (B. J.), Life of General Philip Schuyler. (2 v. New York, 1873.)

Lower Canada Jurist. Vol. I.

MARRIOTT (James). Plan of a Code of Laws for the Province of Quebec. (London, 1774.)

MASERES (Francis), [Attorney-General of the Province of Quebec, 1766–9. The most acute and voluminous of contemporary writers on Canadian affairs. Hasty, prejudiced, religiously intolerant, and much given to legal discussions; but on the whole an invaluable witness. A careful study has led me to an agreement with many of his main statements and conclusions.]

(a) A collection of several commissions, and other public instruments proceeding from his Majesty's Royal Authority, and other papers relating to the state of the Province of Quebec. (London, 1772.)