| 238 no further prosecutions be had with reference to difficulties there. The committee was discharged.
The Second Quorum of Elders reported that they had received into the quorum William C. Cadwell and George W. Shute.
Phineas Cadwell, James M. Harvey, James C. Crabb, and Jonas W. Chatburn were ordained high priests, and the ordination of George Derry, S. S. Wilcox, C. G. McIntosh, and George Sweet was provided for to the same office.
M. H. Forscutt was ordained first counselor to the president of the High Priests' Quorum. D. H. Bays was ordained a seventy.
William Chambers was ordained president of the Second Quorum of Elders; and David Chambers and William C. Cadwell were ordained his counselors. Talley Clark and Lucius Merchant were received into quorum. William T. Bozarth was ordained second counselor to the president of the Third Quorum of Elders.
The Third Quorum also reported that they had received into their quorum the following elders: Levi Anthony, William Hawkins, Benan Salisbury, Robert Young, John T. Kinneman, John M. Terry, and William Lewis.
The following resolutions were adopted:
Resolved, That the law of tithing as given in the revelation of 1838, and referred to in the revelation of 1861, is applicable to the church in its present condition, and should be observed.
Resolved, That the building of houses of worship in the various branches of the church is in keeping with the law, and an excellent aid to the preaching of the word.
Resolved, That all baptisms, in order to be legal, must be done by both the administrator and the candidate going down into the water, according to the instructions in the Bible, Book of Mormon, and Doctrine and Covenants; and if there are any now numbered with the church who have received the ordinance with any less than the above requirements, that they are hereby required to receive the administration of the ordinance in the above form.
Resolved, That this body, representing the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, does hereby authoritatively indorse [endorse] the Holy Scriptures as revised, corrected, and translated by the Spirit of revelation, by Joseph Smith, Jr., the Seer, and as published by the church we represent.
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