| 531 A. J. Cato, Southwestern Mission. A. Haws, Oregon. William Anderson, Pacific Slope Mission. Samuel Brown, London District, Ontario Canada, Mission. R. C. Elvin, in Southwestern Nebraska.
April 13 the following touching ordinations in organized districts was adopted:
Resolved, That in organized districts, no one be ordained to the office of an elder, without the voice of the district or conference be had ordering such ordination, or by sanction of the missionary in charge.
The following touching the rules of representation was adopted April 14:
Resolved, That provision four, of section three, of the Articles of Representation, which reads:
"Provided fourth; That no one delegate shall represent in the same conference more than one district," be stricken out, and the following inserted in lieu thereof: Provided fourth; That no one delegate shall be entitled to cast, as representative, in the same conference, more than twenty votes.
The Quorum of High Priests reported the death of two of their number, namely, Zenas Whitcomb and Edwin Cadwell.
The report of the Quorum of Seventy showed the following changes: The removal by death of Peter N. Brix; the dropping of Henry H. Morgan, for inactivity; the dropping of John H. Hansen, who was unable to make any promise of present or future labor; the ordination and reception into the quorum of I. N. White, Henry Kemp, W. J. Smith, M. H. Bond, A. H. Parsons, J. S. Roth, W. M. Rumel, John Smith, A. J. Moore, F. M. Sheehy, and H. L. Holt.
M. H. Forscutt presented his resignation as a public official of the church, and asked to be permitted to labor locally as an elder. The resignation was accepted, and his request granted.
The report of the First Quorum of Elders showed a loss of one by death; of four by ordination to the office of Seventy; the reception and enrollment of R. R. Dana, Asa S. Cochran, A. B. Moore, M. H. Gregg, and J. M. Terry; the election of Volentine White as secretary.
The Second Quorum of Elders reported having lost their president, I. N. White, and his counselor, J. S. Roth, by their being ordained seventies, and having indorsed [endorsed]
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