Indemnity Increased in View of Greater Extension of Area Rome, Feb. 7.
The agreement between the Italian Government and the Vari in connection with the temporal authority of the Holy See will he signed on Sunday by Cardinal Gas-parti and the Premier, Signor Mus-
The agreement embodies a clause extending the Vatican territory, on the south-east of the Vatican gar dens, over several hundred acres, which territory will form a small state somewhat on the lines of San Marine.
The new Papal State ed "Vatican City" or the will enjoy all the ives and immunities of an independent sovereign state, Tu consideration of the Pops refusal of an offer for a greater extension of the Vatican ferrite the Italian Government has jereased iis money indemnity to tw> thousand million lire, The Italian Government is reported to have undertaken to secure the enforcement of canon law throughout the Kingdom of Italy. This experiment has never been tried any modern state and will be watd with rear interest by the whale The Pope has decided to devote the indemnity offered by the Italian Government to the support of Catholic missions abroad.—Reuter.
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