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February 17. Lateran. Pope Alexander IV writes to Patriarch [Jacques Pantaléon] of Jerusalem, papal legate, granting him the faculty of providing by himself or through another six clerics with a single prebendal or other benefice, with or without care of souls, in the cathedrals or other churches of his legation, but maximum one per church; of having them or their procurators received in those churches, as canons and brothers if they are collegiate; and of restraining those who contradict with ecclesiastical censure without appeal, the statute on a fixed number of canons and any other statute, custom, or indulgence notwithstanding. If the benefices have care of souls, the persons receiving them must reside there in person and have themselves promoted to the orders required by that care according to the established times.