the  Jesuits,  as,  also,  all  the  laity  belonging  to  them,  as  procurators,
labourers,  and  officers,  are  exempt  from  excommunication  and
interdict."

9. "  No  bishop  or  prelate  shall  have  the  power  of  imposing
upon  any  member  of  the  Order,  or  any  layman  friendly  to  the
Society,  an  excommunication  or  other  Church  penalty,  and  if
any  presume  to  do  so  it  shall  be  null  and  void."

10. "  It  shall  be  quite  free  to  all  Christian  believers  to  attend
the  worship  and  preaching  of  the  members  of  the  Society  of
Jesus,  as  well  as  to  receive  the  sacrament  and  absolution,  after
confession,  from  them,  without  being  in  any  way  liable  to  inter-
ference by  the  ordinary  clergy."

11. "Every  bishop  or  archbishop  is  bound  to  consecrate-
members  of  the  Society  of  Jesus  presented  to  him  who  are  not
already  priests,  vrithout  any  paymentwhatever,  or  promise  of  any
such."

12. "  The  members  of  the  Society  of  Jesus,  with  the  permission
of  their  General,  have  the  right  to  settle  in  the  countries  and
cities  of  the  excommunicated  and  schismastics,  as  well  as  of"
heretics  and  unbelievers,  and  to  hold  intercourse  with  the  same."

13. "  They  shall  not  be  bound  to  allow  themselves  to  be  em-
ployed in  the  visitation  of  cloisters,  or  in  inquisitions  and  other
church  functions,  as,  also,  when  they  desire  it,  they  are  to  b&
exempt  from  the  supervision  or  conscience-keeping  of  nuns."

14. "  They  shall  not  be  required  to  pay  tithes  on  their  estates
or  possessions,  by  whatever  names  they  may  be  called,  not  even
excepting  Papal  holdings ;  in  short,  they  are  not  to  pay  any  taxes
©r  dues  whatever."

15. "  The  donation  of  houses,  churches,  and  colleges  built,,
founded,  or  bequeathed  by  princes,  counts,  &c.,  shall  be  con-
sidered from  the  moment  of  delivery  as  confirmed  by  the  Pope,,
without  any  special  deed  of  ratification  being  required  to  be-
drawn  up."

16. "  All  their  churches  and  places  of  interment  are  to  be
forthwith  consecrated  by  the  bishop  of  the  diocese  without  any
hesitation;  should  such  bishop,  however,  delay  doing  so  for
more  than  four  months,  the  ceremony  may  be  performed  by  the
fittest  prelate  at  hand. Also,  all  archbishops,  bishops,  prelates,
and  ordinaries,  as  well  especially  as  all  ecclesiastical  and  secular
authorities,  are  strictly  prohibited  from  hindering  the  erection;


IGNATIUS   LOYOLA   AS   GENEEAL    OF    THE    OKDEK. 