De Pensens and Duchambon 99 
     
     Spain, 15 from Canada, 198 from Acadia, and 216 
     
    
   
   
    
     from France. From this, as well as from contem- 
     
     porary correspondence it is clear that French immi- 
     
     gration diminished after the reunion to the Royal 
     
     domain and ceased altogether in 1734, while Acadian 
     
     immigration which was practically negligible during 
     
     the period 1719-1724 gradually increased until the 
     
     number of Acadians and French was almost equal 
     
     in 1735. In the census returns subsequent to 1735 
     
     attention is concentrated upon agriculture, and the 
     
     fishermen as a separate class are ignored. It is prob- 
     
     able that many of these found wives among the colo- 
     
     nists and became merged in the general population. 
     
     The live stock enumerated in 1734 were 332 cattle, 
     
     119 sheep; in 1735, 433 cattle, 190 sheep. As the 
     
     increase of population in 1735 came from Acadia the 
     
     new immigrants evidently brought considerable live 
     
     stock with them.® 
     
    

    
     The year 1735 also saw the completion of the 
     
     establishments for the surgeon and the chaplain, as 
     
     well as a powder vault—“‘the expense exceeding the 
     
     estimate” ; but apparently the barracks had not been 
     
     completed as de Pensens had difficulty with deserters 
     
     who escaped to Acadia, and he excused them on the 
     
     plea that they were so badly lodged that “the snow 
     
     and the rain leaked through their beds which they 
     
     often had to abandon in the night.” In 1736 five 
     
     boats were built of from 20 to 80 tons burden.° 
     
    

    
     8 G1, Vol. 4672, 
     
    
   
   
    
     9 C11 TV, Vol. 17, p. 17. 
     
     10 F, Vol. 151, p. 185.