Kenrick, Archbishop Francis Patrick, Baltimore, Maryland, to Archbishop Anthony Blanc, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1855 June 9

Blanc's suggestion regarding a change in the mode of recommendation was adopted with a slight modification by the late Council of Baltimore. It is deemed unnecessary to communicate the names to the metropolitans unless a priest of another diocese is proposed, then his bishop and metropolitan should be apprized. In case of vacancy, the bishops of the province should assemble within a month and receive information from the councillors whose number is to be increased to ten. These changes need the sanction of the Holy See. New lists are now sent for Savannah : Father Patrick Neeson Lynch, Father William Henry Elder, Father John Barry ; for Charleston : Father John McCaffrey, Father H. De Luynes, S.J., and Father James Duggan . For the Vicariate of Florida they have proposed Father Annette! Lafont, Father James McGarahan, and Father Francis McFarland . For Wilmington, North Carolina : Father John B. Byrne, Father James Whelan, O.P., provincial of the Dominicans, and Father Bernard Maguire, S.J . Four of the prelates voted for the erection of a see in Washington ; Bishop John McGill 's translation to it is recommended. Father H.B. Coskery and Father John B. Byrne are named also. In case of McGill's translation, B. Maguire, Coskery and Father Richard O'Connor are recommended for Richmond . Pottsville in Pennsylvania is proposed as a see and Richard O'Connor, Father William O'Hara and Father Tobias Mullen are named. Bishop John Nepomucene Neumann of Philadelphia offers to go there, which Kenrick thinks inexpedient but if he is translated, Father James Frederick Wood, J. McCaffrey, and P.N. Lynch are named for Philadelphia . The council gratefully received the proposal of the Holy See to open a college for American students American College in Rome and empowered Kenrick to send a priest to make the necessary arrangements. Prelates who desire to share the advantages are expected to contribute $25 or $50 yearly toward the expenses of the agent, etc., until the institution be put on a permanent basis. August 15 is appointed as the time for annual contributions to the Relief Society fund for converts. Bishop Thaddeus Amat has at length arrived and intends going by the way of New Orleans. A committee, consisting of the Pennsylvania Bishops, was appointed to procure legal advice on the best mode of administering church property under the new laws and to report at Pittsburg on the occasion of the consecration of the Cathedral. :: VI-1-i A.L.S. 3pp. 12mo. 32