| 551 to the upbuilding of the House of the Lord, as well as laboring thereon, were to be remembered; that those who build it should own it and have the control of it.
"'After further remarks, those who performed the labor on the building voted unanimously that they would continue to labor thereon till the house should be completed.
"'President Sidney Rigdon was appointed to lay on hands and bestow blessings in the name of the Lord.
"'The Presidents were blessed; and Reynolds Cahoon, Hyrum Smith, and Jared Carter, the building committee (the last two) though not present, yet their rights in the house were preserved.
"'The following are names of those who were blessed in consequence of their labor on the House of the Lord in Kirtland, and those who consecrated to its upbuilding:-
"'Sunday afternoon, March 8.
Sidney Rigdon, Aaron E. Lyon, Henry Baker,
Joseph Smith, Jr., Thomas Burdick, William Fisk,
F. G. Williams, Truman Wait, Henry Wilcox,
Joseph Smith, Sen., Edmund Bosley, George Gee,
Oliver Cowdery, William Bosley, Lorenzo Young,
N. K. Whitney, William Perry, David Clough,
Reynolds Cahoon, Don Carlos Smith, James Durfee,
Hyrum Smith, Shadrack Roundy, Joseph Coe,
Jared Carter, Joel Johnson, Thomas Gates,
Jacob Bump, Oliver Higley, Loren Babbit,
Artemas Millet, Evan M. Green, Blake Baldwin,
Alpheus Cutler, Levi Osgood, Joseph B. Bosworth,
Asa Lyman, Alpheus Harmon, Gad Yale,
Josiah Butterfleld, Joseph C. Kingsbury, John Johnson,
Noah Packard, Ira Bond, John Tanner,
James Putnam, Z. H. Brewster, Henry G. Sherwood,
Isaac Hill, Samuel Thomson, Sidney Tanner,
Edmund Durfee, Sen., John Ormsby, Joseph Tippits,
Edmund Durfee, Jun., Luman Carter, Robert Quigley,
Gideon Ormsby, John Smith, Erastus Babbit,
Albert Miner, Samuel H. Smith, Samuel Canfield,
Ira Ames, Thomas Fisher, Phineas H. Young
Salmon Gee, Starry Fisk, Samuel Rolfe,
Peter Shirts, Amos R. Orton, Calvin W. Stoddard,
Isaac Hubbard, Almon Sherman, Josiah Fuller,
Horace Burgess, Warren Smith, Erastus Rudd,
Dexter Stillman, Moses Bailey, Isaac G. Bishop,
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