Letter from George Albert Smith, 13 April 1845
Nauvoo
Elder Woodruff I have commenced two letters which
on account of the Great Press of Business I could
not finish I received a letter from you by Elder
Amos Fielding a Special Conference commenced on
the 6 of April & adjourned on the Evening of the 9th
it was the largest assembly ever gathered in Nauvoo by many thous-
ands the congregation covered from 2 to 3 acres of ground & were
variously estimated from 18 to 40,000 the most perfect
order prevailed notwithstanding the city authorities had
leased to act since the repeal of the Charter & consequ
ently not a policeman or constable on the ground to keep
order it was Decided by Doctor Go Forth that our Deacons per
served far better order than there was at the Conference 12
months before kept by the Police. Every proposition presented
to the Conference was caried with out a Desenting voice. A
Resalution passed to Recommense the Nauvoo House & put up
its walls this fall there is an immense emigration coming
in this Spring & notwithstanding the departure of Rigdon
Wight Emmit & their companies it is all most imposs
ible to find an Empty House or Even a room to rent
the tithing is comeing in from Nerely all the Branches
& Business mooves as Lively around the Temple as it
does round a Bee Hive in May Elder Ammasa Lyman
& my self have ben Elected trustees of the Nauvoo
House to fill the vacancies of John Snyder & Lyman
Wight Removed the City of Nauvoo has ben organizd
into a Town Corporation & yesterday 5 Trustees where
elected who have power to pass such Ordainences Rules
& Regulations as are for the safety and peace of the
citizens in preventing fires opening streets supressing
Nuisiances & disorderly Houses & such other things
as may not be Inconsistent with the statute of the state
this organization is under the provisions of the General
incorporation act which authorizes any neighborhood
not exceeding a mile square & containing 150
Inhabitants to organize in the manner above Described
