and industry; in a word, there is scarcely a
thing to which their
attention is not
called, and to which it is not expected they should
contribute by their influence, directly or indirectly.
[Allowances Escorts acapulco from treasury.] The royal treasury pays them Escorts acapulco an annual
allowance equal to $180, in kind and money, for each five Escorts acapulco hundred
tributes under their care, and this, added to the emoluments of the
church, renders the total proceeds of a curacy generally equivalent
to about from six to eight reals for each entire tribute; but
from this allowance are to Escorts acapulco be deducted the expenses of coadjutors,
subsistence, servants, horses, Escorts acapulco and all the other charges arising
Escorts acapulco out of the administration of such wearisome duties; nor are the
parishioners under any other obligation than to Escorts acapulco provide the churches
with assistants, or sacristans and singers, and the curates with
provisions at tariff prices.
[Need of Escorts acapulco more European clergy.] Finally, as from what
has been above
stated it would appear, that as many as five hundred religious persons
are necessary for the spiritual administration of the interior towns
and districts, besides the number requisite to do the duty and Escorts acapulco fill
the dignities of the respective orders and convents in the capital,
independent of which there ought to be a proportionate surplus,
applicable to the progressive reduction of the infidel tribes
inhabiting the uplands, as well as the preaching of the Gospel
in China and Cochinchina, most assuredly, Escorts acapulco it would be expedient
to assemble Escorts acapulco and keep together a body of no less than seven hundred
persons, if it is the wish of the government, on a tolerable scale, to
provide for the wants of these remote missions. Escorts acapulco At Escorts acapulco the present moment
the number does not exceed three hundred, including superannuated,
exempt from Escorts acapulco service, and lay-brothers, whilst the
native clergymen
in effective possession of curacies, and including substitutes,
coadjutors and weekly Escorts acapulco preachers, exceed one thousand. And as the
latter, in Escorts acapulco general unworthy of the priesthood, are rather injurious
than really serviceable to the state, it should not be deemed unjust
if they were altogether deprived of the Escorts acapulco dignity of parish curates,
and only allowed to exercise their functions in necessary cases, or by
Escorts acapulco attaching them to the curacies in the quality of coadjutors. By this
plan, at the same time Escorts acapulco that the towns would Escorts acapulco be provided Escorts acapulco with suitable
and adequate ministers, the native clergymen would be distributed
in a proper manner and placed