| 283 several recommendations, which after amendments, read as follows:
In conclusion, your committee ask, (1), That their labors be accepted, and they discharged. (2), That some one well qualified for the task be appointed musical editor for the church. (3), That the committee be authorized to turn over to him all the music prepared by them, instead of to the Board of Publication. (4), That measures be at once taken to prepare the manuscript for publication by said musical editor, and the book be at once published, or as soon as circumstances will justify. (5), That the name of the music book be "The Saints' Harmony."
M. H. Forscutt was appointed musical editor, and the committee was discharged.
The Board of Publication made a lengthy report of work done, and of receipts and expenditures, leaving a balance in hand of $66.12. They also offered their resignations. By subsequent action these resignations were accepted. Thus releasing I. L. Rogers, H. A. Stebbins, John Scott, W. W. Blair, and David Dancer.
The board reported that during the year a building had been purchased and fitted for Herald Publishing House at a cost of $1,264.34, and that on this account there had been paid out of current receipts of the office $1,064.34, leaving the church for the first time in a publishing house of its own with only $200 indebtedness. The conference passed a resolution requesting Bishop Rogers to act as a member of the board. The Bishop consented to act, and upon his nomination the following were elected his associates: David Dancer, G. A. Blakeslee, W. W. Blair, and Joseph Smith.
A committee, consisting of W. H. Kelley, G. A. Blakeslee, and Phineas Cadwell was appointed to investigate the books and reports of the retiring board during the entire time of its incumbency and report to the annual conference of 1880.
A Danish hymn book was submitted to the conference for examination, by Elder Peter N. Brix, missionary to Denmark, and it was submitted to a committee consisting of Ingvert Hansen and H. N. Hansen, who reported favorably, recommending the book for use in the Danish Mission, and that the conference approve of the work.
A resolution from Decatur District was presented to the conference asking that the church define more clearly its
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