| 74 The following items of business we select as being of especial importance:
Elder James McKiernan was released from the music committee upon his own request, and James V. Roberts appointed to succeed him.
After some discussion regarding the cost of sustaining them, Elders Bear and Avondet were released from their mission, and a vote of thanks extended them for labor done.
Elders C. W. Wendell and Glaud Rodger were sustained in their mission to Australia; and Elder J. W. Briggs was requested to proceed to Utah at his earliest convenience.
Elder D. H. Bays was released from his mission to Texas. Elders Z. H. Gurley and Robert Warnock sustained in Utah; Elder Thomas Taylor was sustained in charge of European Mission; Elders J. T. Davies and Robert Evans were sustained in Wales; Elders J. H. Hansen and C. E. Blodgett were assigned to the Kentucky mission; Elder J. R. Lambert was assigned to Western and Northern Iowa; Elder J. C. Clapp in the Pacific Slope Mission; Elder M. H. Forscutt was appointed "to labor as wisdom and the Spirit may direct, under the jurisdiction of the local authorities where such labor may be performed;" Elders A. H. Smith and William Anderson were continued in the Pacific Slope Mission; Elder George Hatt was assigned to Eastern Nebraska; Elder J. V. Roberts was appointed to labor in Southwestern Iowa and Southern Nebraska; Elder F. C. Warnky was assigned to Colorado; Elder R. W. Briggs was assigned to labor in Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio, and Elders Magnus Fyrando and H. N. Hansen were assigned to Scandinavia.
The following-named elders were continued in former fields: James Caffall, Charles Derry, J. H. Lake, E. L. Kelley, E. C. Brand, Hugh Lytle, C. G. Lanphear, E. C. Briggs, W. H. Kelley, Robert Davis, Duncan Campbell, and T. W. Smith.
The following-named persons were received by vote on their original baptism: B. F. Boydstun and wife, Mary Page (widow of John E. Page), Roxana Wells, Mary Lowe, and Charlotte Bond.
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