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Day in the Life

Dec 16, 1859

Journal Entry

December 16, 1859 ~ Friday

16th I spent the day in the office. In the evening Presidents
Young & Wells with many others met in the Historians
office to read & discuss the laws got up by the code
commission at the close of the reading President Young
made some remarks upon govermental affairs He said
their would be an exertion made to take away our charter
or Organic act, the vary next best thing to our becum
ing a state would be for them to take away our charter
then we would know who would govern this Country
it would not be long before we would have an Election

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Young, Brigham
1 Jun 1801 - 26 Aug 1877
3302 mentions
Apostle, Family
Wells, Daniel Hanmer
27 Oct 1814 - 24 Mar 1891
773 mentions
Apostle

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Historian's Office, Great Salt Lake City, Great Salt Lake County, Utah Territory

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1860
Church membership 61,000; population of Utah Territory 40,273, population of 33 United States 31,443,000.

Dec 16, 1859