This disarms many of the Church's enemies and in 1920 funds are appropriated for the re-establishment of the French embassy to the Pope in Rome.etc.etc.Today the Catholic religion is tolerated more or less in the same manner as Judaism, Islam etc.

(SR.) ***** [Footnote 5301: The Budget of 1881.

17,010 desservans of small parishes have 900 francs per annum; 4500 have 1000 francs; 9492, sixty years of age and over, have from 1100 to 1300 francs.

2521 cures of the second class have from 1200 to 1300 francs; 850 cures of the first class, or rated the same, have from 1500 to 1600 francs; 65 archipretre cures have 1600 francs, that of Paris 2400 francs; 709 canons have from 1600 to 2400 francs; 193 vicars-general have from 2500 to 4000 francs .-- Abbe Bougaud, "le Grand Peril," etc., p.23.In the diocese of Orleans, which may be taken as an average type, fees, comprising the receipts for masses, are from 250 to 300 francs per annum, which brings the salary of an ordinary desservant up to about 1200 francs.] [Footnote 5302: The fees, etc., of the cure of the Madeleine are estimated at about 40,000 francs a year.

The prefect of police has 40,000 francs a year, and the prefect of the Seine, 50,000 francs.] [Footnote 5303: Praelectiones juris canonici, II., 264-267.] [Footnote 5304: Ibid., II., 268.] [Footnote 5305: "The Ancient Regime," pp.