On this day the inhabitants of the parish of St. Anne of Detroit convoked in general assembly according to the rules in use and presided over by the Cure of the parish passed the following resolutions: 1. That the people are extremely afflicted by the scandalous division which has existed in the parish for several years;, 2. That their entire submission to the command of Bishop Benedict Joseph Flaget given in his letter of Feb. 23, 1817 to the members of the corporation is the only way to reestablish peace;, 3. That all the Catholics ought to obey the Bishop and after hearing the letter of the Bishop read they agreed unanimously to accept the conditions of the Bishop so that there will be no doubt about those who adhere to the illegitimate corporation it is resolved;, 4. That there will be two lists made of all who submit, one to be preceded by the motives which brought them to submission and the other in the registers of the parish following the present deliberation and the letter which shall be inserted in full;, 5. That all holding house and home in this parish and desiring to be regarded as true Catholics and to have all the privileges of the church of St. anne will sign their name in their own hand on the two lists or have it inscribed there in the presence of two witnesses who will testify to his consent;, 6. That each and every inhabitant holding house and home in the parish of St. Anne from the Rivere aux Ecorses to the Riviere a Guillonet who does not confirm himself to the preceding resolutions after 4 days from this assembly shall be considered as members of the illegitimate corporation and consequently to come under the pain of interdict inflicted by the Bishop's letter. Signed by Richard and 60 others. :: III-2-f A.D.S. French 3pp. 4to., 2