Although it has been a source of satisfaction to have conducted missions among them unceasingly for six months and to see the fruits among them from their chance to hear the word of God, he is yet uneasy about the perseverance in these good dispositions, because of bad habits, the seductions of the world and the work of the demon. He fears that they will be like flowers that bloom in the early spring but which fade and die at a sudden north wind. He fears that he will soon learn that their fervor has soon cooled, like the flames of a prairie suddenly dying out. It is in fear of this that he has prepared some rules governing the centers for churches and their own personal life, to preserve them from the greater evils. The places where one day there will be parishes., Convinced from experience that churches which do not have sufficient land at the start are always poor and incapable of supporting the priests who serve them or the school under their care, he decides that no parish shall be established which does not have attached to it at least 200 arpents of land or lots and houses which have the value equivalent to 200 arpents., 1. Having visited the land from the source of the Wabash and the Miami of the Lake to Lake St. Clair he sees that the little village at the Rapids can be a central point and if a church is built there it will be called St. Vincent de Paul and shall serve the people from Fort Wayne to about 15 to 18 miles from Riviere au Raisin., 2. The Church of St. Anthony of Padua, situated on the banks of the Riviere au Raisin will continue and serve all the Catholics within 5 or 6 leagues., 3. The two banks of the Riviere Aux Hurons and those of the Riviere aux Ecorses will form a third parish in the village that is being built there and the church will be called St. Mary's., 4. The two banks of the Riviere Rouge up to Mill Creek or Riviere du Moulin will constitute a fourth division of which the church of St. Anne will be the center., 5. From the Riviere du Moulin to the point at Guignolet there will be a fifth division of which the center will be at Grosse Point and the church there will be called St. Peter the Apostle., 6. Anse Creuse, Riviere aux Hurons, on Lake St. Clair and the St. Clair River will form provisionally the sixth division of which the church of St. Francis de Sales will be the central point until other arrangements., 7. Since, in the course of time there will be a church between Lake St. Clair and Lake Huron, the people of the St. Clair River will be detached from the parish on the Riviere aux Hurons and the church there will be named St. Agnes., Particular rules for the church of St. Joseph of the Cote du N. E. parish if it was sufficiently distant and not well provided from the parish of St. Anne, once the only church of the territory and one day to be the Cathedral or mother church. Wishing to fulfill the promises he made when he was less well informed and when he placed too great faith in the intentions of the people he decrees: 1. The parish of St. Anne can never impose a tax on the Church of St. Joseph unless previously in a general assembly the people consent to the tax for a public good well defined., 2. That, although he desires that all the burials take place in the cemetery of St. Anne, nevertheless, in case of necessity or an unforeseen reason there may be some burials in the cemetery of St. Joseph but that all the services and chanted masses must take place in St. Anne's., 3. A priest shall go once a month, as much as is possible, to take care of the church of St. Joseph. He says expressly, as much as is possible, because the priests are few and the territory to be cared for great and when such service cannot be given, the people shall have nothing to say., 4. Finally, the church of St. Joseph will be only succursal and contained in the limits of St. Anne's and St. Anne's will remain the only parish. If the people of the Cote du N. E. are not satisfied and renew their murmurs and complaints he will interdict their church forever to put an end to the scandals which they have maintained too long already. Further since only 5 or 6 of the Cote du N. E. have paid their tithes, he demands that they either present themselves to pay the debt or make an arrangement on the subject before the next visit of the priest. Besides, he insists that what he said in his judgement sent from Loretto concerning all the bodies of the dead in the principal street and in the old church of St. Anne be executed by those of the Cote du N.E. jointly with those on the other shore. crossed out under threat of refusing a priest to St. Joseph's. :: III-2-f A.L.S. French 4pp 4to., 3