By the same Concordat, and by the decrees which follow it, "the government[3194] ensures a suitable salary to bishops and cure's," 15,000 francs to each archbishop, 10,000 francs to each bishop, 1500 francs to each cure of the first class and 1000 francs to each cure of the second class,[3195] also, later on,[3196] a maximum of 500 francs and a minimum of 300 francs to each assistant-priest or vicar.

"If circumstances require it,[3197] the conseils-generaux of the large communes may grant to prelates or to cures an increase of salary out of their rural possessions or octrois." In all cases, archbishops, bishops, cures and priests shall be lodged, or receive a lodging indemnity.

So much for the support of persons.-As to real property,[3198] "all the metropolitan churches, cathedrals, parochial buildings and others, not alienated, and needed for the purposes of worship, shall be subject to the disposition of the bishops."-- The parsonages and gardens attached to these, not alienated, shall be given up to the cures and assistant-priests."-- "The possessions of the fabriques,[3199] not alienated, as well as the rentals they enjoyed, and which have not been transferred, shall be restored to their original purpose .-- As to the outlay and expenditure for worship,[31100] for the parochial center or cathedral, if its revenue is not sufficient, this shall receive aid from its commune or from its department; besides, "an assessment of 10 %.[31101] shall be laid on the revenues of all the real estate of the communes, such as houses, woods, and rural possessions, for the formation of a common fund of subsidy," a general sum with which to provide for "acquisitions, reconstructions or repairs of churches,...
seminaries and parsonages." Moreover,[31102] the government allows "the French Catholics to make endowments, if so disposed, in favor of churches..

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for the support of ministers and the exercise of worship," that is to say to bequeath or make gifts to the fabriques or seminaries; in fine, it exempts seminarists, the future cure's, from the conscription.
It also exempts the "Ignorantins," or brethren of the Christian schools, who are the instructors of the common people.