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Source: Church History Vol. 3 Chapter 4 Page: 117 (~1845)

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117 acknowledge the authority of the Twelve, but the authority of Elder Rigdon.

"President Young said that a president of a stake could be dropped without taking his standing from him in the church. But not so with the First Presidency or the Twelve. A president of a stake is only called for the time being; if you drop him he will fall back into the High Priests' Quorum.

"The motion was then put, but there was only two votes. The contrary vote was put and carried by an overwhelming majority.

"Elder E. C. Kimball moved that Elder John Smith stand as the president of this stake. Carried unanimously.

"President Young then said, 'The Macedonia church must select their own men for a president, as Elder John Smith is coming here.'

"President John Smith moved that Elder C. Rich be one of his council. Carried unanimously.

'Moved and seconded, that S. Bent, James Allred, Dunbar Wilson, George W. Harris, William Huntington, Sen., Newel Knight, Alpheus Cutler, Aaron Johnson, Henry G. Sherwood, Thomas Grover, Ezra T. Benson, and David Fulmer, be sustained as the High Council. Carried unanimously.

"Elder E. C. Kimball moved that Elder Joseph Young stand as first president over all the quorums of the seventies. Carried unanimously."-Times and Seasons, vol., 5, p. 692.

On separate motions the following were also unanimously sustained as Presidents of Seventy: Levi W. Hancock, Daniel S. Miles, Zerah Pulsipher, Henry Herriman.

The following action was also had:-

". . . That Josiah Butterfield be cut off from the church. Carried unanimously.

"President Young showed that it was because he had got a little money, and was lifted up. . . .

"President Young said, that the seventies had dropped James Foster, and cut him off, and we need not take an action upon his case.

". . . That Jedediah M. Grant take the place of J. Butterfield in the Quorum of Seventies. Carried unanimously.

(page 117)

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