Unable to meet church debts due this fall, he asks permission to go to Holland to collect money. He would start when Father John Reichenbach comes; he would return as quickly as possible, and go to Saginaw . He feels responsible for these debts, and it would be hard on Reichenbach who would be besieged for payment without any money to meet them. The subscription of last year is used up and that of this year comes in slowly. Cause of the deficit is due to the failure of the picnic, and payment in October to two parties whose money was borrowed without interest. The whole amount of the debt is $5500. P. S. He gave the last sacraments to a dying Catholic man who had attempted marriage with a Protestant woman before a squire; she was unwilling to be married afterward by a priest. He received her consent before two witnesses, using the principle of sanatio in radice :: III-2-k A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo.