We ask authorization to express our explanation in the proposed terms and to have a conference with Admiral Dewey in order to have our claims reach General Merritt."

It was he, by the way, who had obtained an authorization to add to the name of Seguin that of Du Hordeltaken from a ruined tower called the Hordel which stood on the estate.

"The petition of the students requesting authorization to open an academy of Castilian," answered the secretary.

For this purpose, too, he wore a finger ring that had been sent him, which was intended to impress the imperial seal upon documents requiring authorization.

Shortly after his arrival he celebrated Mass in the house of an Irishman named William Davis, who had been transported for making pikes for the insurgents in the days of '98, and then, on the first opportunity that presented itself, he sought the authorization of the colonial governor to exercise the functions of his sacred ministry.