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

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1865

pg 490       charge of all the American foundations; but as the General Chapter 
             was so near, he preferred to leave all to its decision.
                  The suppression of the Province having been resolved upon, 
             nothing was easier than to have it passed by a Chapter in which 
             the Superior General had taken care to secure a majority of votes, 
             which left Indiana no chance nor hope of success.  The pretended 
             impartiality of His Reverence was from the beginning to the end of 
             this assembly nothing but a thinly disguised mockery.  Probably 
             the matter did not escape the discrimination of the Propaganda, 
             which, instead of leaving to the Superior General the decision of 
             the question of residence, decided it itself and located it at 
             Notre Dame.  The Bishop of Fort Wayne was named Delegate Apostolic 
             and charged to call together a chapter in which the election of a 
             Provincial of America would take place, and the revision of the 
             Constitutions of Provincials.
                  The Chapter met at Notre Dame in the third week of Easter, 
             and F. Sorin was elected to the new charge by an absolute