Port-au-Prince. Father Torribio is named to its cure; schools are to be established there.

“I have the honor to inform you that the President of the Republic, to whom I had sent the report you presented to me under date of the 10th of this March, has judged it fitting to name to the Cure of the Capital the Reverend Father Torribio, at present parish priest of Ouanaminthe, leaving it within my discretion to place the other priests recently arrived in Haiti wherever I shall see fit. The desire and the will of the President are not to occupy himself for the present with the Petit-Séminaire of which you spoke to me, and which you would wish to begin establishing at Pétion.

“The Head of the State thinks that one might first attend to the schools to be established at Port-Républicain, of which your report also makes mention.