Chronicles of Notre Dame du Lac
Edward Sorin, CSC -- Translated by John M. Toohey, CSC, 1895

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1858

pg 336       honoraries of masses, fees for marriages, baptisms, in pew rents, 
             collections, offerings, etc.
                 In 1843  for one missioner         $ 112.08
                    1844  for two missioners          213.59
                    1845      three                   121.37
                    1846      three                   142.13
                    1847      four                    286.54
                    1848      six                    1034.18
                    1849      five                    650.89
                    1850      four                    609.48
                    1851      five                    989.93
                    1852      five                    744.50
                    1853      six                     908.24
                    1854      five                    726.17
                    1855      four                    901.00
                    1856      four                    735.70
                    1857      four                    569.82
                  This would give an average of $143 per an. for each priest, 
             that is to say, a sum on which no Bishop would ask one of his 
             missioners to live.  And yet this is all that went into the 
             treasury of Notre Dame and that was brought in by this long and