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Source: Church History Vol. 4 Chapter 27 Page: 481 (~1885)

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481 two societies, if found agreeable to the will and wishes of said branch. W. W. Blair, chairman, Stephen Maloney, Israel L. Rogers.

President Joseph Smith resigned as a member of the Board of Publication, and David Dancer upon the nomination of Bishop Blakeslee was chosen to succeed him.

Joseph Smith, J. R. Lambert, and E. L. Kelley were appointed a committee to formulate a set of rules to govern in cases of trial and appeal in the church. The leading officers were presented separately, which resulted as follows: Joseph Smith and W. W. Blair, of the First Presidency, were sustained, and D. H. Smith released. Josiah Ells, J. H. Lake, W. H. Kelley, James Caffall, J. R. Lambert, A. H. Smith, and T. W. Smith were sustained unanimously as members of the Quorum of Twelve, E. C. Briggs was sustained with one negative vote, and the conference refused to sustain J. W. Briggs and Z. H. Gurley. The remainder of church officers were sustained.

The chairman of the committee to examine the books of the Church Secretary and Recorder stated that they had been unable to meet and hence were not ready to report.

The committee on comparing the Book of Mormon with the manuscript in David Whitmer's possession made report, which was received, adopted, and the committee discharged.

Committee on repairing Kirtland Temple reported no work done. It was continued.

Alfred Munn made a proposition to the conference looking to the formation of a company to handle a thirty-two acre tract of land that he had purchased in the suburbs of Independence. This proposition was referred to the Presidency, the Bishopric, and Twelve.

A motion was made to repeal the resolutions of the Quorum of Twelve adopted at the annual conference of 1884. Action on this motion was deferred until next annual conference.

The Quorum of Twelve presented the following on missions:

We the members of the Quorum of the Twelve present, in council, by advice of the First Presidency and Bishopric, do hereby report: Under the present depressed state of the finances of the church, we do not deem it advisable to send out as many missionaries as in the year just past; but do advise, if it can be so arranged, and meet your approval, the appointing and sustaining the following-named ministers to the respectively-named

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