Barnabo, Alexander Cardinal, Rome, Italy, to Archbishop Anthony Blanc, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1859 June 1

No. 7. Since in the month of November the new North American college in Rome for the diocese of the United States is to be opened to students, the Sacred Congregation in full assembly decreed on May 9 that the Archbishops of the United States in council with their suffragans should propose the names of three priests from whom the Sacred Congregation would choose the new rector. While the Sacred Congregation reserves the naming of the rector to itself it is important that the bishops give this information so that a suitable person be chosen. The Archbishop of Baltimore is to act as a center for this information. Archbishop Cajetan Bedini of Thebes signs as secretary. :: VI-2-a L.S. Latin 1p. 4to.