An abstract of the several royal edicts and declarations, and provincial regulations and ordinances, that were in force in the province of Québec in the time of the French government : and of the commissions of the several Governours-General and Intendants of the said province, during the same period / faithfully collected, from the Registers of the Superiour Council of Québec, by Francis Joseph Cugnet, Esquire, Secretary to the Governour and Council of the said Province, for the French Language ; by the direction of the Honourable Guy Carleton, Esquire, Governour in Chief of the said Province.