Wilford moves families to Provo; 30,000 Church members prepare to abandon/burn Salt Lake City ahead of army.
6th Sunday I took my Horses & carriage & took Elder O.
Hyde to Pownnd toown & held two meetings we organized
the pond town district into a ward and we Appointed
A. O. Smoot Bishop and to preside over the people in that
place we had a good time and returned home in the
evening 30 miles
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11th [FIGURES] The Presidency Twelve and many others met with the peace commissioners in the Council House Governor Powell a senator Elect Hailing from Kentucky and Maj McCullough from Texas were then introduced to the Assembly as the peace commissioners sent by President Buchanan Gov Powell spoke to the people & informed us what the President wished at our hands President Buchanan sent by them a proclamation accusing us of treason & some 50 other crimes all of which was fals yet He Pardoned us for all those offences if we would be subject to the Constitution and laws of the United States and if we would let his troops winter in our Territory He pledged himself that they should not interfere or infringe upon any city town or people of this Territory that he had no right to interfere with our religion, tenets, faith, or practice in any of our religion. The peace confirmed the same they did not wish to enquire into the past at all but let it all go but talk about the present & the future President Buchanan
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