Scotch And Irish Catholic...
The Times, 1824-04-06T00:00:00

The Moniteur of Saturdayfcotains the following Royal Ordinances:- whom these presents sha)l come greeting, Considering our ordinance of the 1lth of December, 1818, which unites under one administration the establishments founded in France at different times for the instruzion of young English, Irish, andl Scotch Catholics; Considering the memorials presented by the prelates of Scotland, in which they show that the Scotch foundations are too poor to bear, even in proportion to the revenues which they produce, the expenses of an atiministration instituted for the three establishments united ; Considering that the scantiness of the revenue of the Scotch section really requires for *that section en administration entirely gratuitous, and which cannot be better exereised than by those who bave the greatest interest in the preservation of the funds, and the good application of the produce; Wis ing to enter into thc views of the founders who have placed those establishments under the protection of the kings our anees- tors, by maintaining over this gratuitous administration the inspec. tion of our Governnsent- On the report of our Minister Secretary of State for the Interior, Fwith the advice of our Councilof State, we have ordained and or- daitt as follows :_ 1. The foundations mnade in France for the instruction of young Scotch Catholics shall be separated from theEnglish and Irish foun- '4ations, to be administered separately, underthe superintendeece of our nlinister of the Interior. 2. The Administrator shall be, as far as possible, a Priest of the Catholic Church of Scotland, and by birth a subject of His Britannic Alaiesty. 3. He shall be named by our iMinister of the Interior. 4. Ele may delegate his functions, for a time, to a French eccle- siastic. who must be approved by our Minister of the Interior. 5. The Scotch Administrator, or his delegate, shall haye, for the preservation of the property and the receipt of the revenues, the same powers as are given to the Administrator-General by our ordinance of the 17th of December, 1818, end especially by article 25 of that ordinance. 6. The revenucs received by the Administrator shal be paid by hun entire, and without delay, into our Royal Treasury,which shall open an account current for our Minister of the Interior for the con- cern of those foundations. fod7. The budget of the expenditure of the funds arisiRg from the foundattions shall be regulated before-hand, for last year, by the Alinister. 8. The annual accounts shall be submitted to his approval, and finallv confirmed by hiin. 9. xThe nomination of scholars sball likewvise be subject to his ap- 10. The scholars who, aceording to the foundations, are to be broughlt up to the eeclesiastical professions, shall be placed in the French seminaries, and subject to the regulations of those establish- mients. I1. The administration of the Scotch foundations shall be entirely gratuitouis. 12. The ordinance of the 17th of December, 1818, shall continue to be executed, so far as it is not contrary to the present. 13. Oar Ministers of the Interior aad Finance are charged with the execution of thepresent ordinance. Given at our palace of the Tuileries, the 3d of AMarch, in the year of grace, 1824, and the 29th of oar reign. By the King, I,OUIS. The minister Secretary of Statefor the Department of the Interior, CORBIBRE. SCOTCH AND IRISH CATHOLIC ESTABLISTH MilENTS IN PRANTCE.