Dumartrait, Adrien, St. Martinville, Louisiana, to Bishop Anthony Blanc, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1843 August 14

Dumartrait encloses a copy of the resolutions of the trustees of St. Martin's Church in reply to Blanc's letter of July 17. Father Jean Martin, on Blanc's recommendation, resumed his duties. The assistant said Mass yesterday in the Chapel at Pont Breaux ; Blanc is to decide what his salary will be. The trustees believe that the pastor should receive only $400 a year in fixed fees, as they did before Father John Francis Brasseur . Dumartrait then lists the various fees and their allocation according to the trustees' proposals. Blanc is to send Dumartrait a certified copy of the tax for marriage banns and the expenditures of the pastors for which the pastors must render an account to Blanc. Since Father Marcel Borella, Dumartrait has had no information on this subject. The trustees regret that they cannot agree with all Blanc's views and must deliberate on what to do. P.S. Blanc is to tell Father Rousselon that Dumartrait received his letter of July 20 and that the need for a cantor no longer exists since the former one has made sufficient excuses to the family he offended and has been reinstated. A.L.S. French 4pp. Enclosure: