Chambost, Father Charles, Plaquemine, Louisiana, to Archbishop Anthony Blanc, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1856 October 17

Chambost has just received Blanc's letter. Chambost talked to Henry Riordan about his exeat. He cannot get it because he was pledged to the Bishop of Savannah where he was to be ordained about a month and a half after the receipt of his exeat, when Bishop Gartland died. Father Edmund Aubril of St. Augustine, Florida, with whom Riordan lived, could testify that Riordan had received his exeat. Riordan was born in the diocese of Kerry in Ireland and came to America in 1845. He wished to live and die here so it was not necessary to obtain an exeat as Bouvier says in his treatise on Holy Orders. In any case, Bishop Moriarty will ratify the dispensation. Tomorrow Chambost will send another letter answering Blanc's questions about Clark and the cousin. :: VI-1-k A.L.S. French 2pp. 4to.