Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1825-08-30

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gentlemen to represent you before this
Government of the character given tc
those by the letter Of the Secretary Of
War of the 18th May, they win be re.
reived and respected as officers of the
General Government would be by the
most friendly States of the Union.
With great consideration;
G. NJ. TROUP.
The PRESIDENT of the United States.
+. FroyM <sargosH Buenos tyres, ~of.2prl25.
kPRoVIEES 6ATHE RIO DE La PLA.
HTf PARAGUAY.
In sPme of the numbers of our pa.
kpsA e have made mention of Para.
MA e&rfikg to private information:
but always with as much uncertainty
as we should speak Of the region of the
dead. We now copy a decree of the
Dictator of the Republic in regard 70
the reform of the religious orders
Now let it be said that the light Of the
age has not yet penetrated to Paraguay.
THE DICTATOR OF THE REPUBLIC,
Considering that our Converts are
now reduced TO so small a member of
individuals as merely to keep up the
appearance Of a community, at the
same time that most, if not all, Of them,
are deficient in the means of affordinc
an adequate and permanent subsis,.
enee to the Monks /; rejecting likewise
that these religious orders are neither
necessary nor useful in the present cir
cumstances and in the low state they
now exist, may be much more usefully
employed if secularized /; l have de-
termined upon the resolutions and de-
crees contained in the following arti-
cles:
/. All the Converts or Houses Of
Religious Orders, now existing with
in the territories of the Republic are
suppressed.
Q. The Ecclesiastical Vicar General,
using the power vested in him by the
present extraordinary circumstances,
shall receive and determine upon all
petitions and requests in regard to Sc
cularization, which may be presented
by the aforesaid Religious Orders, in
all cases, however, the jurisdiction and
authority of the Supreme Government
of the Republic being considered para
mount.
8. Those who may have been secu-
larized shall be considered as candi-
dates to the vacan curacies, either in
the capital, or in the towns and districts
Of the country, or in the missions, for
the conversion of the natives, or to the
places of chaplains, according to their
qualifications and other circumstances,
in order t. their being useful to the
Republic, and from the revenues and
emoluments of their Office, they shall
receive a proper and comfortable sup
port. 1t shall be the duty of the afore-
said Vicar to attend to the proposed
arrangements, they, however, being
empowered to obtain and exercise any
other employments and Offices Of the
Secular Clergy.
4. Those who do not obtain imme-
diate employment shall receive a pen
sion according 10 the value of the pro-
perry belonging to the suppressed Hou-
ses. >
5. In pursuance Of this determine
ton, all the goods and appurtenances,
Of whatever kind, belonging to the sup
pressed converts, are, and shall hence
forward be considered, the property Of
the state; and in order tina, proper ar
engagements may be made, within twen-
ty days after this intelligence shall De
received the actual prelates Of each
place shall forward to the government,
an exact inventory, under oath, taken
with the assistance of other monks be-
TO each House respectively,
containing a distinct and circumstan-
tial account Of all the real estate and
moveables of whatever kind or class,
belonging to their converts or church
es, as well as of all their claims, de-
mands, revenues, pious donations, funds
for captains, and other foundations and
which they possess, or which
are connected in any manner, with their
converts or churches, including like.
wise books, documents, and papers OF
all descriptions.
6. In order to the punctual observ-
of this resolution, the Secretary.
shall forward authorized copies, under
seal Of the government, TO the Ec-
clesiastical Vicar General, and to the
prelates of the aforementioned con
vents.
Assumption of Paraguay, goth Sep.
TENDER, lS24,-fourteenth year Of
the independence.
JOSE GAspAR RODRIGUEZ De FRANcIA.
BY order Of H. Exc'y. Bernardino
Villamayor, Secretary Of the gov.
eminent.
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