Ordinance by Jacques-Alexis Fleury Deschambault for the installation of suitable ladders on houses, 10 January 1709.

As The king’s prosecutor at our seat has impressed upon us, numerous inhabitants in This city Neglect, in violation of the police Regulation Rendered by Our seigneurs at the Conseil souverain in quebec, to have Their houses Equipped with Ladders as a precaution against Fires that could occur because of the lack of ladders. We order that all owners of houses, or Their Lessees on their behalf, have the said houses Equipped with Suitable Ladders according to the regulation of Our said seigneurs at the Conseil within fifteen Days from the Day of The publication of the present, Under penalty of a ten Livres fine Against the Said Contraveners, which penalty will be enforced beyond the said period by Action taken against Their belongings & by other Reasonable means [dues ?] & this will be Read, published & posted next Sunday Following the High mass at the door of the parish Church of This city & at other Customary locations. Ordered & done & passed at ville marie by we the aforementioned Lieutenant general on The tenth of January seventeen Hundred and nine.
[signed]Deschambault