it was required to pay governors, judges, and all the colonial officials out of the duties which it levied. **** Yet the king had the prosperity of Canada at heart; and he proceeded to show his interest in her after a manner hardly consistent with his late action in handing her over to a mercenary guardian. In fact, he acted as if she had still remained under his paternal care. He had just conferred the right of naming a governor and intendant upon the new company; but he now assumed it himself, the company, with a just sense of its own unfitness, readily consenting to this suspension of one of its most important privileges. Daniel de Rémy, Sieur de Courcelle, was appointed governor, and Jean Baptiste Talon intendant. (v) The nature of this duplicate government will appear hereafter. But, before appointing rulers for Canada, the king had appointed a representative of the Crown for all his American domains. The Maréchal d’Estrades had for some time held the title of viceroy for America; and, as he could not fulfil the duties of that office, being at the time ambassador in Holland, the Marquis de Tracy was sent in his place, with the title of lieutenant-general.---- * Arrêt du Conseil du Roy qui accorde a la Compagnie le quart des castors, le dixième des orignaux et la traite de Tadoussac: Instruction a Monseigneur de Tracy et a Messieurs le Gouverneur et L'Intendant. This company prospered as little as the rest of Colbert’s trading companies. Within ten years it lost 3,523,000 livres, besides blighting the colonies placed under its control. Recherches sur les Finances, cited by Clement, Histoire de Colbert. ** Commission de Lieutenant Général en Canada, etc., pour M. de Courcelle, 23 Mais, 1665; Commission d’intendant de la Justice, Police, et Finances en Canada, etc., pour M. Talon, 23 Mars, 1665. *** Commission de Lieutenant Général de l’Amérique Méridionale et Septentrionale pour M. Prou Conseil du Roy qui accorde a la Compagnie le quart des castors, le dixième des orignaux et la traite de Tadoussac: Instruction a Monseigneur de Tracy et a Messieurs le Gouverneur et L'Intendant. This company prospered as little as the rest of Colbert’s trading companies. Within ten years it lost 3,523,000 livres, besides blighting the colonies placed under its control. Recherches sur les Finances, cited by Clement, Histoire de Colbert. **** Commission de Lieutenant Général en Canada, etc., pour M. de Courcelle, 23 Mais, 1665; Commission d’intendant de la Justice, Police, et Finances en Canada, etc., pour M. Talon, 23 Mars, 1665. (v) Commission de Lieutenant Général de l’Amérique Méridionale et Septentrionale pour M. Prouville de Tracy, 19 Nov., 1663.