Kindekens thanks Lefevere for his permission to go to Adrian for 3 or 4 weeks to settle business affairs. Before going he wants the Grand Rapids business settled. When in 1853, he was charged with the spiritual care of the counties of Lenawee, Hillsdale and other adjacent places, since Lefevere gave no instructions how to support himself, Kindekens understood that he was to steer his own course, especially as there were no councilmen there to provide him with a salary. There is a prevalent opinion among the clergy that the bishop sends them on missions with plenty of spiritual faculties, but without any provisions for their material support. The dreaded law of limitation $300 a year is promulgated to prevent too much success in temporalities. Kindekens will not object to reestablishing a Committee providing Councilmen observe Rules 17 and 19 of Lefevere's printed instructions for the temporal affairs of the diocese. M.H. Hughes, Peter Granger, and Ringuet, trustees of St. Andrews, gave Father Joseph Kindekens a note for $244.63 for money due him for July, 1862 to July, 1863; $100 remains to be paid. People say that when Father Andrew Viszoczky died the Bishop got all he had. Early priests had all the outside missions from which they got a regular salary. Kindekens asked to be relieved unless reassured of reasonable support for himself and his assistant. :: III-2-k A.L.S. 6pp. 8vo.