Schutjes, Father Henry J.H., Bay City, Michigan, to Bishop Peter Paul Lefevere, Detroit, Michigan, 1864 April 21
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Father Remigius Van Der Heyden called at Schutjes' residence yesterday and left a note and Lefevere's letter of the 13th to Van Der Heyden. By this letter Schutjes sees that the ostensorium, etc. must be given to the church of East Saginaw. Schutjes claims these articles for Bay City, the others are in Flint, and Father Charles De Ceuninck gave Schutjes those he had before. Mr. Dallas was never the owner. At that time Saginaw Valley was but one mission, and no church in East Saginaw. Dallas was the cause of no church building there, for he kept the money he collected; he gave the church articles to Nay City church. Schutjes asked Dallas for the $100 he had collected, demanded the church articles which Schutjes gave up. When Dallas left East Saginaw he gave those articles to De Ceuninck; on Lefevere's order the articles are returned to Schutjes. After seven years Dallas demands those articles to be removed. If laymen can do this, priests can keep vestments, etc. if they keep them in a layman's name. Schutjes is being accused of taking more salary from East Saginaw than he should have; he asks Lefevere to investigate this money matter. :: III-2-k A.L.S. 5pp. 12mo.
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- Creation: 1864 April 21
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