| 129 The auditing committee on Bishop Rogers' report showed receipts $1,565.42, expenditures $1,596.57, leaving $31.16 due I. L. Rogers on general fund. Danish Mission fund, receipts $128.40, paid out to Danish missionaries $118.30, balance on hand $10.10. Welsh Mission fund, received and on hand $22.00. Utah chapel fund, received and on hand $5.50.
President Joseph Smith tendered his resignation as a member of the Board of Publication. The resignation was accepted, and upon nomination by the Bishop, Elder H. A. Stebbins was chosen to fill the vacancy.
The 9th, Chester Bass and Mary Fisher were baptized by Elder H. A. Stebbins.
The 10th, the High Priests' Quorum reported the deaths of George Morey and Jacob Doan, and recommended for ordination Elders R. C. B. Elvin and Jackson Goodale. These recommendations were indorsed [endorsed] and their ordinations ordered. It reported as members of the quorum the following: Wheeler Baldwin, James Whitehead, Lyman Hewitt, Zenos Whitcomb, James Newberry, James Anderson, W. H. Hazzeldine, David M. Gamet, Hiel Bronson, Ebenezer Robinson, Silas W. Condit, Hiram P. Brown, John A. McIntosh, Henry J. Hudson, T. P. Green, Daniel P. Young. Phineas Bronson, Thomas Carrico, Stephen Richardson, Israel L. Rogers, William Aldrich, Edwin Cadwell, Winthrop H. Blair, Oliver P. Dunham, John Landers, Benjamin Austin, Hugh Lytle, Thomas Dungan, Charles Derry, Loren W. Babbitt, Jesse Price, G. A. Blakeslee, Joseph Parsons, Thomas Dobson, Mark H. Forscutt, William Redfield, G. W. Brooks, A. M. Wilsey, W. D. Morton.
The following recommendations of the Quorum of Twelve were sanctioned by conference:
Elder J. W. Briggs, in charge of the Utah Mission. Josiah Ells, in his present field and to extend his labors into the Eastern Mission; Elder Banta under his direction. E. C. Briggs, in his former field, and J. S. Patterson in connection with him. A. H. Smith, released from Pacific Slope Mission, and Elder D. S. Mills sustained in the oversight thereof; Elder William Anderson under his direction. T. W. Smith, present field. Z. H. Gurley, present field.
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