Ordinance by Jacques-Alexis Fleury Deschambault, 27 January 1711.

Audience held on Tuesday the twenty-seventh of January 1711 by Us the lieutenant General [...]

Appeared The king’s prosecutor At our seat who told us that he had had published the preceding Sunday Our Ordinance of the 23 of This month by Which the merchant bourgeois & inhabitants of This city Were told to be present on This Day before us in order to deliberate & establish a set Tax to Be remitted to Louis Goultreau dit Langoumois & to francois hirdier dit La malin for Each Chimney that they will sweep In This city, & As Sweepers are of importance in this city, he requested that we please proceed with the said tax. Following the Advice of Sieur Jean Baptiste Neveu, Sieur maurice Blondeau, merchant, Sieur Nicolas perthuis, Baker, & Jacques faucher Laviolette & with the Consent of the said king’s prosecutor & In the presence of the said francois herdier La Malin on His behalf & for the Said Louis Goultreau Dit Langoumois, We have Ordained that all bourgeois merchants [&] inhabitants of This city

be Held to having Their Chimneys Swept every two months Beginning on the first of February next, in April & on the first of June & Beginning again on the first of 8^ber [October] next & Continuing to do so every two months up [to] the first of June and from the said first of June to the first of 8^ber [October] We also Enjoin Langoumois & La malin to do So and in the Event that some bourgeois merchants or inhabitants refuse to have Their Chimneys swept in which Case they will be Condemned to remit three Livres in fines, the sweepers are to notify the Said king’s prosecutor of the said refusal instantly; And as for The salaries of the said Sweepers, We ordain that They be paid ten sols per Chimney, And When there are two Chimneys One above the Other or three or four Pipes, The first will cost fifteen sols & the others ten sols Each, and the Said Salary will be paid in cash to Each Sweeper by the Said bourgeois merchants & inhabitants; Which the Said La malin has accepted for Himself & for the Said Langoumois & has promised to satisfy the above conditions punctually. As Mandated by us.
[signed]Deschambault