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20 JV. B. Munro Each intendant received from the king a commission of appoint- ment setting forth his jurisdiction and powers; this he presented at the first meeting of the council after his arrival, when it was in a royal edict of that date {Edits ct Ordonnances, I. 33). M. Robert, as has been stated, did not come out to the colony. Jean Talon, commission dated March 23, 1665, registered at Quebec on Sep- tember 23 following. Talon left the colony in the autumn of 1668 and remained in France until the suinmer of 1670. He went back to France again in the fall of 1672, the king having accepted his request to be relieved of his post. Claude de Boiiteroiie, commission dated April 18, 1668, registered at Quebec on October 22 following. As Bouteroue was sent to the colony to act as intendant during the absence of Talon, he gave up his post on the return of the latter in 1670. Jacques Dnchcsneau, commission dated June 5, 1675, registered at Quebec on September 16 following. Duchesneau was recalled, leaving the colony for France on May 9, 1682. Jacques de MeuUes, commission dated May i, 1682, registered at Quebec on October 9 following. Meulles left the colony during the first week of Oc- tober, 1686. Jean Bochart de CJiaiiifigiiy, commission dated April 24, 1686, registered at Quebec on September 23 following. Champigny went home to France in Oc- tober, 1702. Frangois de Beauharnois, commission dated April i, 1702, registered at Quebec on October 15 following. Beauharnois left Quebec in the autumn of 1705. Jacques Raudot, commission dated January i, 1705, registered at Quebec on September 17 following. On the same date Antoine-Denis Raudot, his son, was commissioned " to serve as adjoint and to act as intendant in case his father should be ill or otherwise incapacitated or should be absent from Quebec a dis- tance of more than ten leagues ". The younger Raudot returned to France in 1 710, whither his father followed him a year later. Michel Began, commission dated March 31, 1710, registered at Quebec on October 14, 1712. Begon's departure for the colony was delayed by the death of his father. After twelve years' service he was promoted to the intendancy of Havre, and left Quebec in 1724. Edme-Nicolas Robert, commissioned February 22, 1724. M. Robert died at sea en route to his post ; hence his commission does not appear on the council registers at Quebec. Guillanme de Chacellcs, commissioned in the spring of 1725. Chazelles left Rochefort in July of the same year on board the frigate Le Chamcan. The vessel, however, getting badly out of her course, was wrecked near Louisburg, whence news of the disaster was sent to Quebec, and thence to France. Claude Thomas Duptiy, commission dated November 23, 1725, registered at Quebec on September 2, 1726. Dupuy returned to France in October, 1728. Gilles Hocquart, commissioned commissary-general and acting intendant of New France on March 8, 1729. Two years later, February 21, 1731, he was promoted to the intendancy by a commission registered at Quebec on August 20 following. Hocquart returned to France in 1749, having been appointed intendant at Brest. Frangois Bigot, commission dated January i, 1748, registered at Quebec on September 2 following. Bigot left the colony, with the other officials and the troops, in 1760. During the interval between the departure of Jacques Raudot and the arrival of Begon, M. d'Aigremont performed the duties of the intendancy : and later, on the departure of Dupuy, d'Aigremont again assumed charge, but died before the