Bishop Fenwick at the throne of His Holiness, tells him that infidel savages in his diocese came to him asking that their infant children be baptized and he asks His Holiness for permission to give them the sacrament. The reason for this action at the time is that these children might die before they reach the age of reason and be lost if not baptized. A second reason is that the adult Indians by this action show that they are well disposed and that they themselves will probably be baptized if their language were spoken by the missionary. Fenwick asked instruction on this matter. The Holy Father in the Audience of May 11, 1828 referred this letter of Fenwick to Capranus and asked that he send to Fenwick the decree of the Sacred Congregation of the Inquisition of Nov. 29, 1764 and that of Jan. 21, 1767, as well as the decree of the Sacred Congregation of Wednesday, Sept. 12, 1827 in which the decrees of the Synod of Bardstown in 1823 were corrected. In this decree it was stated generally that children of heretics offered by the parents for baptism should be baptized without difficulty. The decree was granted without any charge. :: III-2-g D.S. Italian and Latin 1p. 8vo.