April 7. Met at 10 oclok Prayer By D. H. Wells Levi Hancock spoke 8 M[inutes]
President Taylor 6 M[inutes], (Levi Hancock was baptized Oct 1830)
As it was a year of Jubilee $800000 of the perpetual
Emigrating fund was forgiven to the Poor as Debts which they
owed the institution Also $75899.01 of Back Tithing was
forgiven the Poor 1000 cows was to be given to the widows
& poor & the Church was to furnish 300 of them 5000 sheep
was to be given to the poor & 2000 of them to be furnished by the
Church. The relief society of the sisters were to furnish as a
loan 34000 Bushels of the wheat they had in store for seed to the
poor who needed it but that must be paid Back again and the
Bishops were held responsible for the return of the same. L W
Hardy spoke upon Tithing 17 M[inutes]. L. J. Nuttall read the Missionary
[list] A Carrington spoke 50 J Taylor 30 M[inutes]. Authorities of the Church
were then presented and sustained
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