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[English Translation] 20                   History of the Kingdom        Afterward it was decided to divide it into six score Provinces, each of which would have a capital city that would bear the name of its Province,[1] & & under this would be a hundred other cities & parishes, over which they would have power & authority to be judges of last resort.[2]        Therefore: it was ordered that all the houses, in both the capital cities & in the other towns, boroughs, & villages that fall under them, would be divided by tens, hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands, & hundreds of thousands, if the size & magnitude of the cities permitted it & that out of each of the ten houses, the most competent & able of the pere de famille[3] are to oversee the other ten, having regard to their morals, reprimanding & accusing them, & knowing at the right time, down to a liard[4] the value of their goods, both movable & immovable. That he should moreover prevent quarrels & disagreements which might arise between families, make them work & live with the order and modesty required of good people, & if it happened that those under his dizaine[5] did not want to obey, or that any difficulty having thus arisen needing to be decided, he would call for his Centennial[6] & the other nine Dizainiers, who would be assembled to hear the question

1. Similar to Saintes and Saintonge. 2. States Rights / Federalism. In Antangil the states had the right to decide all local matters and to be the judge of last resort within their jurisdiction with all but the death penaty, with the eception of the death penalty to which the federal court was the judge of last resort. 3. "Pere de famille," or fathers of the families, is a term used in the bible. The term was also used–"peres de famille"– by Jean LaMontagne in his journal to describe those who would accompany Jesse de Forest to the "Wild Coast" under the Dutch West India Company in 1623. 4. A liard, Ancient money of France. 5. "Dizaine", he who is responsible for his, and the other nine households he represents. 6. "Centenier", he who is responsible for the ninety-nine households he represents including those of the other nine "Dizaines".