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1767 . Nothing relevant. 
1768 . f. 127, no. 16. June 13. A Minor Observant requests the privilege of 
missionary, having been a missionary at Zacatecas for fourteen years, 
f. 130, no. 15. June 13. Abuses in the college of S. Ferdinando of the 
Observants in Mexico. 
1769 . f. 438, no. 6. Sept. 4. The procurator of the Minor Observants of the 
missionary colleges erected in North America requests that the pre¬ 
fecture of those missions be united with the office of commissary of 
the same. 
1770 . f. 74, no. 13. Apr. 2. The Bishop of Quebec says that the English gov¬ 
ernment is not willing to consent to the naming of a coadjutor, and 
requests instructions on the point. 
ff. 353-358. Nov. 19. The commissary of the missions of the Minor 
Observants in North America asks if he can depute, in every one of 
the four colleges, a vice commissary to make missions among the 
faithful. 
1771 . Nothing relevant. 
1772 . f. 121, no. 6. July 13. On certain statutes of the colleges of the Minor 
Observants of America. 
1773 . Nothing relevant. 
1774 . f. 40, no. 16. Jan. 31. The commissary of the missions under the care 
of the Minor Observants of the colleges of North America repre¬ 
sents the necessity of granting him and his successors facoltd to con¬ 
firm, there being thousands of unconfirmed Christians there. 
1775 . Nothing relevant. 
1776 . Nothing relevant. 
1777 . Nothing relevant. 
1778 . f. 1. Jan. 26. On the suffrage in the colleges of America. 
f. 5. Jan. 26. Correction of the abuse of castigating novices too se¬ 
verely in the college of Zacatecas in America, 
f. 180. May 11. Confirmation conferred by the prefect of the Minor 
Observant missions, in the province of Apollombamba, in Mexico 
[sic; Bolivia], subject to the Bishop of S. Maria della Pace, is null. 
1779 . f. 170. Sept. 15. Decrees for certain missionaries. 
1780 . Nothing relevant. 
1781 . f. 3. Jan. 29. A college of the Minor Observants in America using too 
great severity in punishing novices, the decree of 1778 is renewed, 
f. 12. Jan. 29. The commissary of the four colleges of the Minor Ob¬ 
servants in North America requests the customary facoltd. 
f. 62. Apr. 23. The number of missionaries in North America having 
the power to confirm, not being sufficiently great, the request of the 
bishops to enlarge it is awaited. 
1782 . Nothing relevant. 
1783 . f. 335. July 21. On the erection and privileges of various houses of 
refuge of the Minor Observants in Spanish America. 
1784 . f. 294. May 19. Father O’Donnell, Recollet, deputed superior of the 
mission of Newfoundland, with facoltd. 
1785 . f. 115. May 30. To the Bishop of Quebec in Canada is given as coadju¬ 
tor with episcopal character, D. Jean Hubert, with facoltd of conse¬ 
crating him with the assistance of two simple priests. 
