| 446 On the 21st Elders Smith and Wight started on their mission, traveling by team.
Of current events Joseph wrote as follows:-
"Friday, April 11. I attended meeting, and Father Tyler was restored to the fellowship of the church.
"On the 12th I went to the lake and spent the day in fishing and visiting the brethren in that place.
"Sunday the 13th; was sick and unable to attend meeting.
"On Monday 14th I purchased some hay and oats and got them home.
"Tuesday 15th; drew a load of hay, and on Wednesday ploughed and sowed oats for Brother Frederick.
"Thursday, the 17th of April, I attended a meeting agreeably to appointment, at which time the important subject of the deliverance of Zion and the building of the Lord's house in Kirtland, was discussed by Elder Rigdon. After the lecture I requested the brethren and sisters to contribute all the money they could for the deliverance of Zion, and received twenty-nine dollars and sixty-eight cents.
and sufficient security in the sum of two hundred dollars hereafter to keep the peace and be of good behavior to the citizens of the State of Ohio generally and to the said Joseph Smith Junior in particular for the period of of six months, and it is further ordered that the said Doctor P. Hurlbut pay the costs of this prosecution taxed at the sum of one hundred and twelve dollars and fifty-nine cents. And thereupon came the said Doctor P. Hurlbut with Charles A. Holmes and Elijah Smith as his sureties in open Court, entered into a recognizance in the penal sum of two hundred dollars each, conditioned that the said Doctor P. Hurlbut shall for the period of six months from and after this day keep the peace and be of good behavior to all the citizens of the State of Ohio generally and to the said Joseph Smith Jun. in particular. M. Birchard P. J.
Certificate to Common Pleas Record.
The State of Ohio, }
Geauga County, ss. }
I, B. D. Ames Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, within and for said County,
And in whose custody the Files, Pleadings, Journals, Records, Execution Dockets, and Seal of said Court, are required by the Laws of the State of Ohio to be kept, hereby certify that the foregoing copy of Record is taken and copied from the Records of the proceedings of the Court of Common Pleas within and for said Geauga County, and that said foregoing copy has been compared by me with the original Record and that the same is a correct transcript therefrom..
In Testimony Whereof, I do hereunto subscribe my name officially, and affix the Seal of said Court, at the Court House in Chardon in said County, this l6th day of July, A. D. 1896.
(Seal) B. D. AMES Clerk.
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