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age when he was ordained, the sacrament was 

 therefore conferred on him by dispensation. 



On the day after this ordination, Bishop Dubois 

 started for Europe, leaving the charge of his diocese 

 to the very Rev. Dr. Power, then Pastor of St. 

 Peter's. As administrator, Dr. Power took up his 

 residence in the Bishop's house, placing the Rev. Jas. 

 Smith in the pastoral charge of his own church. 

 The Rev. William Quarter was appointed the 

 assistant pastor of St. Peter's, receiving his clerical 

 jurisdiction from the Very Rev. Dr. Power. 



In the year 1831 he determined to pay a visit 

 to his Alma Mater, Mt. St. Mary's. Rev. Mr. 

 Smith, being anxious that the female portion of the 

 children of his congregation should be entrusted to 

 the care of the Sisters of Charity, Rev. Mr. Quarter 

 determined, on his arrival at Emmetsburg, to 

 propose to the Mother Superioress at St. Joseph's, to 

 send on to New York three sisters of the order who 

 would take charge of the female free-school attached 

 to St. Peter's Church. The proposition was favour- 

 ably received, and in the month of June of the same 

 year, the three sisters asked, took charge of the 

 schools. Sister Lucy Ignatius was the first sister 

 servant. 



The house first occupied by these ladies was a 

 miserably dilapidated frame building, directly oppo- 

 site to the church, and on the very spot probably 

 where the splendid mansion recently erected for the 

 present Rev. Clergy now stands. After the lapse of 

 a year, they were transferred from that shattered 



