9, 1890.

(Details, according to the Montpellier newspapers, of the ceremony which had just taken place in the cathedral of that town for the remission of the pallium to Mgr.
Roverie de Cabrieres.] [Footnote 5233: "Encyclopedie theologique," by Abbe Migne, ix., p.465.
(M.Emery, "Des Nouveaux chapitres cathedraux," p.238.) "The custom in France at present, of common law, is that the bishops govern their dioceses without the participation of any chapter.

They simply call to their council those they deem proper, and choose from these their chapter and cathedral councillors."] [Footnote 5234: Ibid., id.: "Notwithstanding these fine titles, the members of the chapter take no part in the government during the life of the bishop; all depends on this prelate, who can do everything himself, or, if he needs assistants, he may take them outside of the chapter." -- Ibid., p.445.Since 1802, in France, "the titular canons are appointed by the bishop and afterwards by the government, which gives them a salary.

It is only the shadow of the canonical organization, of which, however, they possess all the canonical rights."] [Footnote 5235: Abbe Andre, "Exposition de quelques principes fondamentaux de droit Canonique," p.187 (citing on this subject one of the documents of Mgr.

Sibour, then bishop of Digne).--"Since the Concordat of 1801, the absence of all fixed procedure in the trial of priests has left nothing for the accused to depend on but the conscience and intelligence of the bishop.