tolerated more or less in the same manner as Judaism, Islam etc. (SR.)

*****

[Footnote 5301: The Budget of 1881. 17,010 desservans of small parishes
have 900 francs per annum; 4500 have 1000 francs; 9492, sixty years of
age and over, have from 1100 to 1300 francs. 2521 cures of the second
class have from 1200 to 1300 francs; 850 cures of the first class, or
rated the same, have from 1500 to 1600 francs; 65 archipretre cures have
1600 francs, that of Paris 2400 francs; 709 canons have from 1600 to
2400 francs; 193 vicars-general have from 2500 to 4000 francs.--Abbe
Bougaud, "le Grand Peril," etc., p.23. In the diocese of Orleans, which
may be taken as an average type, fees, comprising the receipts for
masses, are from 250 to 300 francs per annum, which brings the salary of
an ordinary desservant up to about 1200 francs.]

[Footnote 5302: The fees, etc., of the cure of the Madeleine are
estimated at about 40,000 francs a year. The prefect of police has
40,000 francs a year, and the prefect of the Seine, 50,000 francs.]

[Footnote 5303: Praelectiones juris canonici, II., 264-267.]

[Footnote 5304: Ibid., II., 268.]

[Footnote 5305: "The Ancient Regime," pp. 119, 147. (Ed. Laffont I. pp.
92, 115.) (On the "Chartreuse" of Val Saint-Pierre, read the details
given by Merlon de Thionville in his "Memoires.")]

[Footnote 5306: Praelectiones juris canonici, II.,205. (Edict of Louis
XIII., 1629, art. 9.)]

[Footnote 5307: The following are other instances. With the "Filles de
Saint-Vincent de Paule," the superior of the "Pretres de la Mission"
proposes two names and all the Sisters present choose one or the other
by a plurality of votes. Local superiors are designated by the Council
of Sisters who always reside at the principal establishment.--With the
"Freres des Ecoles Chretiennes," assembled at the call of the assistants
in function, a general chapter meets at Paris, 27 rue Oudinot. This
chapter, elected by all professed members belonging to the order,
comprises 15 directors of the leading houses and 15 of the older
brethren who have been at least fifteen years in profession. Besides
these 30, the assistants in function, or who have resigned, and the
visitors of the houses form, by right, a part of the chapter which
comprises 72 members. This chapter elects the general superior for ten
years. He is again eligible; he appoints for three years the directors
of houses, and he can prolong or replace them. With the Carth