Father Baraga asks the Bishop's advice in two things: 1 He asks about Canadians or half-breed Catholics, who spend the winter in their own territory but the summer in La pointe and there live together with women without being married. He asks what he should do if they do not listen to any of his exhortations either to be married in church or to separate. He had forbidden them to go to church to make them see the horror of their crimes. But on the other hand that deprives them of the sermons which they need so much. It might be enough to keep the sacraments from them until they repent and to continue to exhort them. He hopes the bishop will advise him soon. 2 Baraga wants a mission school, but as he is all alone and his congregation rather large and spread out, he himself cannot conduct school at the same time. To try and do both would result in a neglect of his mission, his spiritual life, and also the school. Twice he had attempted to conduct a school in La pointe: first, in 1837, but a month later his Indians complained that he neglected them too much; the second time, last winter. The interruptions were quite frequent and after a month and a half, he had to leave La pointe altogether to go on a mission trip to Fond du Lac in the middle of the winter. When he had returned, Lent began and his missionary duties increased. Again he had to stop teaching and he has not tried again. He begs the Bishop to consider their two problems carefully for he is willing to do whatever he is told. There are two Presbyterian schools in La pointe one for boys, one for girls. Almost all the Catholic children go there. They are taught to read and write in English and Indian, but it has been agreed that no mention of religion may be made, otherwise Baraga would take the children out of school immediately. :: III-2-g A.L.S. French 3pp.