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 In 1841, the government created registration offices, which today are called the Bureau de la publicité des droits. Records of land transactions subsequent to the original grant or purchase are in the custody of the Bureau de la publicité des droits for each county or district.
-== The Seigneuries<br>  ==
-In common with much of New France (La Nouvelle-France), the territory known today as the province of Quebec (Le Québec) was first organized politically along feudal lines. Beginning in 1604, scores of concessions of land, known as seigneuries, were granted by the government to proprietors known as seigneurs. The potential for the creation of new seigneuries effectively ended in Quebec in 1763, with the English conquest, but the system remained intact, with modifications, for decades afterward.
 A [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_des_seigneuries_de_la_Nouvelle-France list of all of the seigneuries of New France], with the dates of their foundation is found at [http://www.Wikipedia.fr Wikipedia.fr]. A [http://www.memoireduquebec.com/wiki/index.php?title=Liste_des_seigneuries_%28seigneurie%29 list of the seigneuries of Quebec] is found at [http://www.Memoireduquebec.com memoireduquebec.com]. A [http://www.memoireduquebec.com/wiki/images/3/39/MdQCarte_des_seigneuries.jpg map of the seigneuries of Quebec], made by A. E. B. Courchesne in 1923, accompanies the list. Most seigneuries had a frontage of several miles along the Saint Lawrence river and estuary (Le fleuve Saint Laurent), or along a major river, although some seigneuries surrounded large lakes.<br>