Ubach sends McMaster $47.50 to repay him for the money he so kindly advanced at the customs house, to pay the duties on the statues. Mr. McSorley informed him of this generosity some two weeks ago but he has been unable to repay the money until now because of he scared of money in his extensive and laborious mission. He has spent 14 of his 20 years of priesthood in this same mission where no other priest, in the words of Bishop Thadeus Amat of Los Angeles, California, "would ever remain but a few months." In the past 12 and a half years he has been unable so draw any of the salary stipulated for him by the Constitution of the Diocese because the financial condition of the parish and mission have been insufficient to support himself and the assistant he received six years ago. The old Bishop always had money with which to buy lots in the missions under his jurisdiction even thought some few priests were not far from starvation. Before leaving for Europe the previous year, Ubach got certified copies from every county in the Diocese listing all of the Ecclesiastical property, with the intention of submitting them to the Propoganda, but his fellow priests failed to send him money and so he did not get to Rome. He asks McMaster to suggest a remedy for the condition in which conscientious priests cannot secure enough compensation for their mission. Such suggestions will be secretly and gratefully accepted by several deserving priests. The data on the Anniversary is in his trunk which he lost at Havre, France but he could still write an article if the subject is not too much out of date. :: I-2-c A.L.S. 4pp. 12mo.