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for a settlement He will Throw out all our Temples Tabernacles & Meeting Houses and Not count them
in at all, for they should be free and He
will have what we have turned over go up
to the SupremeCourt to decide upon
And if they Declare the Law Constitutional
I suppose the Government will Dispose of the
property in some way but if the Law is
Declaired unconstitutional the property is
to be Returned to us But a great many
Gentiles though the whole country say it
is a Damshame for the Government to rob
us of our hard Earned property so we all
say Well the 24 is passed and the first time
in my History that I did not attend the
Celebrations in person when I was in
this part of the Country. But I wrote a short
address which was read to the Congregation
My Health is as good as can be Expected con-
sidering the constant amount of Labor that is upon
me Asahel Has gone up Big Cottonwood
4 miles above the Mouth & Paper Mill &
Entered a piece of Land as Mineral Land
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for a settlement He will Throw out all our TemplesTabernacles & Meeting Houses and Not count them
in at all, for they should be free and He
will have what we have turned over go up
to the SupremeCourt to decide upon
And if they Declare the Law Constitutional
I suppose the Government will Dispose of the
property in some way but if the Law is
Declaired unconstitutional the property is
to be Returned to us But a great many
Gentiles though the whole country say it
is a Damshame for the Government to rob
us of our hard Earned property so we all
say Well the 24 is passed and the first time
in my History that I did not attend the
Celebrations in person when I was in
this part of the Country. But I wrote a short
address which was read to the Congregation
My Health is as good as can be Expected considering the constant amount of Labor that is upon
me Asahel Has gone up Big Cottonwood
4 miles above the Mouth & Paper Mill &
Entered a piece of Land as Mineral Land
"Letter to William and Rachel Thompson Atkin, 26 July 1888," p. 2, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed April 25, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/02A7