em to be dispensed and entirely released, so that they
no longer belong to the said Congregation. And his Holiness
confidently trusts that under the direction and jurisdiction of the
local bishops, according to the prescription of the sacred Canons,
the above-mentioned priests will labor by work, example, and word in
the vineyard of the Lord, and give themselves with alacrity to the
eternal salvation of souls, and promote with all their power the
sanctification of their neighbor.

"Given at Rome, in the office of the Sacred Congregation of Bishops
and Regulars, the 6th day of March, 1858.

"[L. S.] G. CARDINAL DELLA GENGA, Prefect.

"A., ARCHBISHOP OF PHILIPPI, Secretary."*

[* Nuper nonnulli ex Presbyteris Congregationis SSmi Redemptoris in
provinciis Americae Septentrionalis foederatis existentibus SSmum D.
N. Pium PP. IX., supplici prece deprecabantur, ut eis ob speciales
circumstantias concederet ab auctoritate et jurisdictione Rectoris
Majoris subtrahi, ac a proprio Superiore Apostolicae Sedi immediate
subjecto juxta regulam a Benedicto XIV., sanctae memoriae, approbatam
gubernari. Quod ad id eis datum non esset, dispensationem a votis in
dicta Congregatione emissis, humillime expostulabant. Re sedulo
perpensa, Sanctitas Sua existimavit hujusmodi separationem unitati
Congregationis officere, et S. Alphonsi instituto minime respondere
ideoque haud permittendum esse. Cum autem relatum sit oratores nulli
labore parcere in sacris expeditionibus peragendis, et in proximorum
conversione, Christianaque institutione curanda, et idcirco a
pluribus Antistibus commendentur, visum est SSmo Domino magis
expedire eos a praefata Congregatione eximi, ut in sacri ministerii
opera promovenda sub directione Antistitum locorum incumbere possint.
Quapropter Sanctitas Sua presbyteros Clarentium Walworth, Augustinum
Hewit, Georgium Deshon, et Franciscum Baker, una cum presbytero Isaac
Hecker, qui eorumdem postulationibus quoad dispensationem a votis
adhaesit, a votis simplicibus, etiam permanentiae in Congregatione SSmi
Redemptoris emissis, hujus Decreti tenore, Apostolica auctoritate
dispensat, et dispensatos, ac prorsus solutos esse declarat, ita ut
ad eamdem Congregationem amplius non pertineant. Confidit vero
Sanctitas Sua memoratos Presbyteros, qua opere, qua exemplo, qua
sermone, in vinea Domini sub directione et jurisdictione Antistitum
locorum, ad praescriptum SS. Canonum adlaboraturos, ut aeternam
animarum salutem alacriter