Beauprez, Father Peter Francis, Pointe Coupée, Louisiana, to Bishop Anthony Blanc, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1845 June 24

Beauprez received Blanc's letter of the 12th. He sees that Blanc wishes him to take the $800 salary this year in view of the expenditures on the two churches. He believes they have overestimated the expenditures. A fixed salary of $600 plus the fees will scarcely give him $800. At Donaldsonville and St. Martin they give almost half of burials and services to the pastor. It would be much better to keep the usual salary of $1000. He sees that they want to vex him because he interfered with the elections; there were two trustees whom he would have liked to see replaced. He has just seen the committee who have bought him a chalice. He wants a set of candlesticks with a cross for $100 and a ciborium for around $20. The committee also wants Blanc to send two holy water sprinklers at around $10, one for Pointe Coupée and one for the chapel, something like the one at Baton Rouge. :: V-5-c A.L.S. French 3pp. 4to.