Menet heard last fall that Lefevere intended to visit Sault but since he had no official notices, he thought Lefevere had put off the visit until this year. If the bishop intends to come Menet would like to know in time to prepare his people for confirmation. Not having the regulations for Lent he has followed those of the two preceding years. A temperance society has been formed recently at Sault by three persons, Doctor Petit, who is a Quaker, a Presbyterian minister, and a Catholic. They asked Menet last summer to assist them but because he acknowledged the inconstancy of the inhabitants, he could not accede to their request without first consulting the bishop. Later, at the beginning of winter they formed a society which has branches in a large number of towns in the American Union. Could it be, a money making scheme, or a secret society or an invention to sow cockle in the Catholic field? He did not pay much attention to the society at first but when some Catholics joined and others came to ask him about it, he felt obliged to investigate it. He was given the handbook of their constitution and rules. The minister at the fort was received into the society and almost immediately was made chaplain of the branch. At the beginning of each meeting they have a Bible reading. He forbade Catholics to join and required those who had joined to be ready to withdraw as soon as he had received orders on this subject. There are only three or four Catholics who had joined and six or seven Irish soldiers at the fort, to whom the society has been of real benefit at least for the present. In a motion presented by common agreement they insisted that it was not a question of the minister, as such, or of the Bible as such, decided as they were to withdraw immediately if they did not accede to their wishes. It was done. Menet does not trust it and asks Lefevere for his opinion and direction. If two persons, one baptized and the other not, marry with a civil ceremony and then separate because they do not agree and do not wish to live together, what must be done if the Catholic party comes to present himself for a second marriage? 2. An Episcopalian was married at a civil service to a Baptist girl not yet baptized. She was baptized during this marriage and lived some time with her husband. Would not this cohabitation, following the baptism, be regarded by the Catholic priest, to whom these two persons or one of them presents himself to become Catholic, as a revalidation of the previous marriage and an obstacle to a second one? On May 2 Menet adds that he wrote the above believing he could find a way to send it to Detroit. Since then he has Lefevere's regulations for Lent and he is glad that he interpreted his wishes correctly. :: III-2-h A.L.S. French 3pp. 8vo.