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Summary. Prelates may demand
procurations only when they conduct visitations and then they must observe the
restrictions of the Lateran Council. On their visitations they should devote
themselves to preaching and reform.
Text. The procurationes [the
hospitality or procuration extended to a bishop and his assistants in the
course of his canonical vistation] which by reason of visitation are due to
bishops, archdeacons, and others, also to legates and nuncios of the Apostolic
See, are, except in a case of manifest and urgent necessity, to be demanded
only when they personally conduct the visitation, and then they must observe
the restrictions made by the Lateran Council [III Lat, canon 4] in regard to
the number of horses and persons accompanying them. This restriction being
observed, should the legates and nuncios of the Apostolic See find it necessary
to make a delay in any place, to avoid being too great a burden on the place,
let them receive moderate procurations from other churches or persons who have
not yet been burdened in the way of supplying such sustenance; so that the number
of procurations may not exceed the number of days of the delay, and should some
procuration by itself not suffice, let two or more be united in one. Moreover,
those conducting the visitation shall not seek their own interests, but those
of Jesus Christ, devoting themselves to preaching, exhortation, correction, and
reform, that they may bring back fruit that perishes not. Whoever shall presume
to act contrary to this decree, shall not only return what he received, but to
the church that he so op pressed he shall also make compensation equivalent to
his injustice.
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