Baraga expresses his worry about the fate of the Indians who live in Grand-River. The Bishop sent him to Grand-River expressly to establish a mission on the border of the Indian territory. Accordingly, Baraga had begun to build this mission on Indian territory. The lumber for the priest's house and schoolhouse is already cut and delivered to the place which Baraga chose for his mission. The workmen were ready to begin their work but Baraga stopped them because he had heard that the Indian land, that is the land from Grand-River to Mackinaw, would be sold soon to the government, and that the Indians would have to leave. If a church and a mission house were built on Indian territory, it might be that everything the Indians had built, would, after some years, fall into the hands of the Americans. Baraga does not know what to do. People advise him to establish his mission on the American side and Mr. Campeau would sell him a piece of land that would be big enough for his mission, but on the other hand Bishop Rese had given him different orders and besides it might hinder the conversion of the Indians. Baraga begs the Bishop to get for himself all the information on this subject and to go to the Governor himself and ask exactly when it is intended to make a treaty with the Indians here. And again Baraga begs the Bishop to decide only after he had gathered all the information and to communicate his decision to him immediately by post. Baraga intends to do exactly that what the Bishop had decided and to undertake nothing until he hears from the Bishop. Baraga quotes in Latin from the writings of St. Clement, and Thomas à Kempis, and in French from I. Regis. 15, 23 about obedience to the Bishop., P.S.-----Baraga asks the Bishop to write to him either in French or in English. :: III-2-g A.L.S. French 3pp. 4to.