Menet has Lefevere's letter with the documents relative to the ownership of the church at Sault. He has spoken to Peter B. Barbeau who said that it was one of the most secure ownerships in the place. When Mr. Drew lodged a complaint against the officer at Fort Brady he won and made the officer pay the costs and a considerable fine. However, the Fort remained in possession of the site illegally occupied. Menet has just finished the pews in the church and made a deal with the same workman for pews for the choir, the wardens and the sanctuary and the repair of the entire interior of the church. The barn and stable are done and the house opposite the church. While awaiting something better, a lady, Mrs. Cadotte, from Sandwich, will open a school in the house across from the church for those who can pay a piastre a month. She hopes to have about ten. If her husband works, Menet believes that they will manage. They will have the free use of the house and land if Menet sees later that the school is a success and that all the Catholic children can attend. He cannot support it otherwise. Menet has even been obliged to go into debt to get them to come there. He has been grieved to see that the workmen coming to Sault have contributed to an increase of dances like a seaport. And the poor savages are for the most part so degraded and always drunk. One might say that the whites are harmful to the savages, but the barbarity of the savages is not less harmful to the whites. However, a nucleus of devout persons is beginning to form. All Catholics who married this year came to Menet; he even had the only two or three mixed marriages which took place and obtained without difficulty the promises for the security of religion on the part of the Catholic and of the children. Although he has learned Lefevere's orders on dances only through "The Citizen " he hopes to profit from them for the good of his parishoners and to emphasize all he has said to them on this subject. :: III-2-h A.L.S. French 3pp. 12mo.