Carroll announced with pleasure the arrival of Father Diliet Jean Dilhet, S.S., who will join Levadoux in the spring. He suggests that Levadoux give him charge of Riviere au Raisin and give Father Gabriel Richard the Vicariate of Detroit since he wishes to keep him near him. He has consented to Richard's going to Detroit, and he understands from Father Jean Rivet's letter that he will remove there in the spring. The obstacles to Richard's removal from the Illinois were the attachments to his parishioners, the great distance to Detroit and the expense of going there and the difficulty of transporting there his books and clothes. Carroll allows it only to assure the contentment of Levadoux for whom he has great affection. Otherwise he could easily give Levadoux another of the Sulpicians as he has now Father Dilhet and Father Peter Babade who is at Havana and will shortly come to Baltimore. There are other Sulpicians in Spain on the way. He approves of Levadoux's desire for a member of his own community as a companion. The rules of the Council of Trent on the question of marriage have been received in the former territory of the Diocese of Quebec, now administered by Levadoux and Carroll's decisions have kept this in mind. Benedict XIV ruled in the case of Holland that since the rules of Trent could not be enforced after her refection from Spain, that the effects of the tridentine decrees were not to be enforced in Holland. The regulation of Benedict XIV has become the law in those countries where the civil law has taken precedence over the ecclesiastical law. So, also, in france since the Revolution, and Carroll thinks also for those sections of the United States where the civil formerly recognized the discipline of the Council. He gives his decision in a case submitted binding a girl to her promise of marriage, made against the wish of her father, unless the estrangement will cause grave hardships. In the second case regarding the marriage of a man with a niece of a woman with whom he had sinned publicly, he leaves to Levadoux to judge of the danger of scandal from a dispensation, and to grant it if permissible. He sends this letter by the secretary of war. :: III-2-f A.L.S. French 3pp. 8vo.