| 287 The following resolution was adopted:
Resolved, That President J. Smith, and those whom he may call to his aid, shall be a committee to prepare and present to the publishers of the Encyclopedia Brittanica, Johnson's, and other encyclopedias, an article setting forth the leading facts touching the rise and progress of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, embracing its distinctive doctrines and principles.
The several quorums made their usual reports, and upon their recommendation the following changes were ordered: I. N. Roberts, J. F. Mintun, G. T. Griffiths, George Montague, G. S. Hyde, and W. T. Bozarth were ordained to the office of seventy. R. M. Elvin was ordained president of First Quorum of Elders to fill vacancy occasioned by resignation of Elijah Banta; J. R. Badham was ordained his second counselor, and the ordination of F. G. Pitt as his first counselor was provided for. J. T. Kinneman was ordained president of Third Quorum of Elders, and the ordination of T. W. Chatburn as first, and J. M. Terry as second, counselor provided for. G. F. Waterman was ordained president of Fourth Quorum of Elders, and H. H. Robinson his first counselor. The First Quorum of Elders released H. C. Bronson and David Powell, silenced A. G. Weeks, and enrolled S. F. Walker, Charles Sheen, Robert Lyle, Joseph Boswell, E. W. Tullidge, J. A. Crawford, James Perkins, and and Hans Hansen.
The Second Quorum of Elders dropped James X. Allen, and enrolled J. J. Conyers and Robert Holt.
The Third Quorum enrolled B. L. Billingsly, W. W. Whiting, Senterlow Butler, and George Hawley.
The Fourth Quorum of Elders was organized and their names published: 3
3 D. D. Babcock, William J. Booker, Martin R. Brown, Nelson Brown, James W. Bryan, A. W. Bullard, J. L. Buckingham, Orrin Butts, Alexander J. Cato, Abram N. Caudle, George T. Chute, O. E. Cleveland, John Conyers, William Coleshaw, John A. Currie, James W. Calkins, Benjamin F. Dykes, James Ervin, W. H. Davenport, J. D. Flanders, Joseph Flory, Rial D. Evans, Griffith George, John H. Givens, James Foxall, John W. Grierson, Richard Groom, Henry Green, Ingvert Hansen, H. N. Hansen, Joel Hall, Temme Hinderks, William Hopkins, J. C. Hardman, James B. Jarvis, Alexander Kennedy, Alfred Jackson, Benjamin F. Kerr, Walter Kinney, James K. Kent, Joseph P. Knox, A. Kuykendall, Edward W. Knapp, Elias Land, Bronson L. Lewis, A. B. Kuykendall, David Lewis, Milton Lynch, Dorman Lewis, Isaac A. Morris, Jesse W. Nichols, J. F. Mintun, Marion Outhouse, James B. Prettyman. James Ogard, C. W. Prettyman, David E Powell,
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