STATE OF CALIFORNIA, [Certificate attached.] State and County of San Francisco, ss: 1, Albert B. Mahony, county clerk of the city and county of San Francisco, State of California, hereby certify the foregoing to be a full, true, and correct copy of the original acceptance of resignation of Joseph S. Alemany, filed in my office on the 25th day of March, A. D. 1885. Attest my hand and my official seal this 14th day of June, A. D. 1902. [SEAL.] ALBERT B. MAHONY, County Clerk. By JOSEPH RIORDA, Deputy County Clerk. (Endorsed:) 9639. In the matter of The Roman Catholic Archbishop of San Francisco, a religious corporation sole. Acceptance of resignation of Joseph S. Alemany. Filed March 25, 1885. Jas. J. Flynn, clerk. By Jno. H. Mott, deputy clerk. 9639. LEO P. P. XIII. Dilecte Fili salutem et apostolicam benedictionem. Annis et laboribus fractus adversaque laborans valetudine Venerabilis Frater Josephus Sadoc Alemany Archiepiscopis S. Francisci in California ad explendas pastorales curas quum alterius ope indigeat supplex Nos rogavit, ut ei adiutorem cum successionis jure assignare velimus. Hine necessitati consulere cupientes egimus hac de re cum Venerabilibus Fratribus Nostris S. R. É. Cardinalibus Christiano Nomini propagando praepositis diligenterque omnibus perpensis et consideratis hujusmodi munus de eorumdem Venerabilium Fratrum Nostrum consilio tibi, delecte fili, hujus pietas, doctrina, prudentia excellentis commendatur testimoniis, demandatum censuimus. Itaque te quem per similes Litteras Nostras hoc ipso die datas Archiepiscopum titularis Ecclesiae Cabasensis fecimus ac renuntiavimus, peculiari benevolentia complecti volentes, at a quibusvis excommunicationis et interdicti aliisque ecclesiasticis sententiis censuris et poenis quovis modo vel quavis de causa latis, si quas forte incurreris, hujus tantum rei gratia absolventes et absolutum fore censentes, Apostolica auctoritate Nostra harum litterarum vi coadiutorem praedicti Venerabilis Fratris Josephi Archiepiscopi S. Francisci in California cum futurae successionis jure eligimus et instituimus. Igitur quandocumque Archiepiscopalis Sedes supradicta per obitum dicti Archiepiscopi, vel aliam quamlibet ob causam vacaverit, a vinculo quo titulari Ecclesiae Cabasensi adstrictus detineris nunc pro tunc ex Apostolicae potestatis nostrae plenitudine solventes Archiepiscopum S. Francisci in California facimus et constituimus cum omnibus et singulis juribus, honoribus, privilegiis et facultatibus quae ex jure velex consuetudine Archiepiscoporum sunt propriae. Volumus autem ut vivente praefato Venerabili Fratre Josepho Archiepiscopo S. Francisci eatenus te ingeras in Diocesis procuratione quatenus ille voluerit ac mandaverit. Parecipimus deinde omnibus ad quos spectat, au spectare poterit, ut, juxta praesentium Litterarum tenorem ad Coadiutoris afficium, et suo tempore in Archiepiscopum memoratae Sedes S. Francisci in California recipiant et admittant, tibique fave ant preasto sint ac pareant, tuaque salubria monita reverenter excipiant atque efficaciter adimpleant alioquin sententiam seu poenam, quam in rebelles rite tuleris vel statueris ratam habebimus eamque faciemus auctorante Domino usque ad conde quam satisfactionem inviolabiliter observari. Non obstantibus constitutionibus et ordinationibus Apostolicis, et si opus sit dictae Archieposcopalis Ecclesias S. Francisci etiam iuramento confirmatione apostolica vel quavis firmitate alia roboratis statutis, et consuetudinibus caeterisque contrariis quibuscumque. Datum Romae apud S. Petrum sub annulo Piscatoris die XVII Julii MDCCCLXXXIII Pontificaius Nii Anno sexto. (Leo Pont. Max.) TH. CARDIS. MERTEL. Dilecto Filio, Patritio Guilielmo Riordan, Rectori Ecclesiae ad honorem S. Jacobi in Civitate Chicagii. To our beloved son, Patrick William Riordan, rector of the Church of St. James, in the city of Chicago. LEO XIII, PEPE. Beloved son, health and apostolic benediction! Our venerable brother Joseph Sadoc Alemany, archbishop of San Francisco in California, debilitated by years and labors and suffering infirm health, has humbly petitioned us that, as he needs assistance in the discharge of his pastoral cares, we would deign to appoint a coadjutor to him with the right of succession. Wherefore, we being desirous of providing for this necessity, having first duly advised thereupon with our venerable brethren the Sacred College of Cardinals, charged with the propagation of the Christian faith, and all things having been diligently weighed and duly considered, according to their usual course in like cases, and upon the advice of our venerable brethren aforesaid have decided that the office of coadjutor aforesaid should be entrusted to you, beloved son, whose piety, learning, and prudence are attested by excellent testimonials. Therefore longing with a special affection to embrace you, whom we have by letters of even date herewith constituted and proclaimed archbishop of the titular diocese of Caves, and thereupon absolving you and declaring you absolved from all and every excommunication, interdict, or other ecclesiastical sentence or censure or penalty of whatever nature, and for whatsoever cause pronounced (if perchance you may have incurred any such), by our apostolic authority, and in virtue of these letters we have elected and constituted you coadjutor of our above-named venerable Brother Joseph, archbishop of San Francisco, in California, with the right of future succession to the said archbishopric. Therefore whenever the archiepiscopal see before mentioned shall become vacant, either by the death of the aforesaid archbishop, or from any other cause, by the plenitude of our authority, releasing you nunc pro tune from the bond by which you are held to the titular church of Caves, we make and constitute you archbishop of San Francisco, in California, with all and each of the rights, honors, privileges, and prerogatives thereunto pertaining whether by right or custom. Nevertheless, it is our desire that, during the lifetime of the venerable brother Joseph, archbishop of San Francisco, you should take such part in the adininistration of the diocese as he may request and empower you to do. And finally we commend all whom it concerns, or may concern, that in accordance S. Doc. 28--25 with the tenor of the present letters they receive and admit you into the office of coadjutor and in the proper time as archbishop of the aforesaid see of San Francisco, and that they respect and obey you therein, and that they reverently receive your salutary admonitions and efficaciously carry them out, failing which we will ratify whatever sentence or judgment you may lawfully pronounce or ordain against the refractory, and we will continue to do this, the Lord confirming it, until perfect satisfaction be had. The constitutions and apostolic ordinances, and if need be the statutes of the aforesaid archiepiscopal church of San Francisco, confirmed even by sworn or apostolic ratification or fortified by any other power whatsoever, and all customs and other things to the contrary notwithstanding. Given at St. Peter's in Rome, under the seal of the fisherman's ring, the 17th day of July, MDCCCLXXIII, in the sixth year of our pontificate. (Leo XIII. Pont. Max.) STATE OF CALIFORNIA, City and County of San Francisco, ss: TH. CARDL. MERTEL. Patrick William Riordan, being duly sworn, deposes and says as follows: I am the Roman Catholic archbishop of San Francisco, and the present incumbent, and am successor of the Most Reverend Joseph S. Alemany; that the original bull, or letter, of my appointment by His Holiness Pope Leo XIII is written in the Latin language and is now among the archives of the archiepiscopal see of the Roman Catholic archdiocese of San Francisco, and is in my custody as such archbishop. I am competent to translate Latin into English, and I hereby certify and declare on oath that I have carefully compared the foregoing instrument, written in the Latin language, with the original bull aforesaid, and that the same is a full, true, and correct copy of said bull. I further certify and declare on oath that the foregoing instrument written in the English language is a true and correct translation from Latin into English of said bull. PATRICK WILLIAM RIORDAN. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 24th day of March, A. D. 1885. [NOTARIAL SEAL.] STATE OF CALIFORNIA, City and County of San Francisco, ss: JOHN E. HAMILL, I, Albert B. Mahony, county clerk of the city and county of San Francisco, State of California, hereby certify the foregoing to be a full, true, and correct copy of the original proof of appointment and succession of Archbishop Patrick William Riordan, filed in my office on the 25th day of March, A. D. 1885. Attest my hand and my official seal this 14th day of June, A. D. 1902. [SEAL.] ALBERT B. MAHONY, County Clerk, By JOSEPH RIORDAN, Deputy County Clerk. (Endorsed:) 9639. In the matter of "The Roman Catholic Archbishop of San Francisco," a religious corporation sole. Proof of appointment and succession of Archbishop Patrick William Riordan. Filed March 25, 1885. Jas. J. Flynn, Clerk. By Jno. H. Mott, Deputy Clerk. PROOF OF SUCCESSION OF THE RT. REV. GEORGE MONTGOMERY, R. C. BISHOP OF MONTEREY. STATE OF CALIFORNIA, [Stat. 1852, p. 168, Civ. Code, sec. 602.] County of Los Angeles, 88: Know all men by these presents, that whereas, the Right Reverend Thadeus Amat, being duly constituted the bishop of the Roman Catholic Church in the diocese of Monterey, did, for the purpose of the administration of the temporalities of the Roman Catholic Church in said diocese and the management of the estate and property of said church, become incorporated as a religious corporation sole, by a certificate, under his hand and official seal, bearing date the ninth day of December, 1870, and duly recorded in the office of the county clerk of the county of Monterey in Book A of miscellaneous records at page 19, on December 12th, 1870. And whereas I, Francis Mora, was afterwards, to wit, on the 20th day of May, A. D. 1873, by bulls or letters of appointment from His Holiness Pope Pius IX, given at Rome, under the seal of the fisherman's ring, bearing date the day and year last mentioned, duly appointed to be the coadjutor bishop of said diocese, with the right of succession thereto, on the death of the said Thadeus Amat or other vacancy occurring therein. And whereas, afterwards, to wit, on the 12th day of May, 1878, the said Right Reverend Thadeus Amat departed this life, whereby I, the said Francis Mora, have succeeded to the said bishopric of Monterey and become the incumbent of the said diocese and of the corporation sole. Now, therefore, for proof of such death and of my appointment as such bishop and of my succession as such incumbent, I annex hereto the affidavit of the rector of the parish, showing the decease of the said Right Reverend Thadeus Amat, and simultaneously herewith I cause to be recorded a duly attested copy of my said letter of appointment as such bishop, the same being in the Latin language, and also a duly attested translation thereof, in the office of and with the county clerk of Monterey County, my episcopal residence being in said county. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the corporate seal of the said diocese and corporation sole this 29th day of June, 1878. [SEAL.] FRANCIS MORA, Bishop of Monterey. STATE OF CALIFORNIA, City and County of Los Angeles, 88: On the twenty-ninth day of June, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight, before me, A. C. Holmes, a notary public in and for said Los Angeles County, residing therein, duly commissioned and sworn, personally appeared Francis Mora, bishop of Monterey, known to me to be the person described in, whose name is subscribed to, and who executed the within instrument, and he duly acknowledged to me that he executed the same. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal, at my office, in the city and county of Los Angeles, the day and year last above written. [SEAL.] A. C. HOLMES, Notary Public. STATE OF CALIFORNIA, City and County of Los Angeles, ss: I, the Rev. Peter Verdaguer, rector of the Cathedral of St. Vibiana and of Our Lady of Angels, being duly sworn, depose and say that I knew the late Right Rev. Thaddeus Amat, bishop of Monterey; that said bishop died in the city of Los Angeles the 12th day of May, 1878: that I saw his corpse after his demise, attended at the funeral, and witnessed the remains being deposited in the basement of the cathedral. In witness whereof I set my hand and seal it with the seal of the parish this day, the 28 of June, A. D. 1878. [SEAL.] Rev. PETER VERDAGUER, Rector. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 29th day of June, A. D. 1878. [SEAL.] A. C. HOLMES, Notary Public. STATE OF CALIFORNIA, County of Los Angeles, ss: Francis Mora, being duly sworn, deposes and says That he is the duly constituted Roman Catholic bishop of Monterey and the same person to whom the commission, or letter of appointment, a copy of which is annexed hereto, is addressed. That the said copy has been by him compared with the said original commission, or letter of appointment, in his possession, and is a full, true, and correct copy thereof, and of the whole thereof. FRANCIS MORA, Subscribed and sworn to before me this 29th day of June, 1878. [SEAL.] A. C. HOLMES, Dilecto filio Francisco Mora, Presbytero, Vicario Generali Diocesis Montereyensis et Angelorum in California. PIUS P. P. IX. Dilecte fili, salutem et Apostolicam Benedictionem! Simul ac Nos venerabilis Frater Thaddeus Amat, Episcopus Montereyensis atque Angelorum, enixis rogavit precibus, ut attentis valetudinis, quibus conflictatur incommodis subsidium sibi Coadjutoris Episcopi, cum futuro successionis jure decernevemus, Nos de spirituali-illius Ecclesio bono solliciti, cum venerabilibus Fratribus Nostris, Sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae Cardinalibus, negotiis Propagandae Fidei praepositis, rem communicavimus, omnibusque rationum momentis sedulo attenteque perpensis, et votis memorati Autistis obsecundandum, et tibi, dilecte Fili istudmunus demandandum existimavimus, procerto habentus, te, |