We the undersigned; having received and examined the  minutes of the last general conference held in the land of  Zion on the January 28-9-30th – 1832 and from mature  reflection and examination, and by comparing them with the  revelations which we have received from our heavenly <father> to regu late his church in these last days, do find that they are  illegal, and the proceedings of said conference not according to  the laws and regulations which we have received by revelation  from our common redeemer and as such we do not consider  them as binding on his church, neither do we feel ourselves  authorized to acknowledge them as being <of> God nor yet according [ to] the mind of the holy spirit. We therefore prefer the following  charges against that conference to the president of the high  Priesthood our beloved brother Joseph who has been ordained  unto this office by a conference held in Amherst Lorain  county ohio on the 25 of January 1832

First we charge this conference with insulting the Bishop  in Zion our beloved brother Edward, by saying [illegible] in  their minutes “appointed brother Edward Partridge moderator”  when he has been previously appointed moderator of the conferences  in Zion by commandment, and also modrator by virtue of  his office as Bishop of the church in so doing assuming an  authority as a conference to which they had no right for when  God appoints authorities in his church let not conference take it  upon them to reappoint these authorities for in so doing  the[y] claim a right which is not granted to them.

First we charge deem it of primary importance  that every order & regulation in the church of  Christ, established in wisdom, for its government  should be preserved inviolate, & as the prodeeding[s]  of this conference reported in its minutes relative  to the appointment of a moderator are illegal  as that office, by revelation was confered upon  an individual, namely our beloved Brother  Edward [Partridge], Bishop of the Church. We therefore charge  the conference <in this act of appointment> with assuming a power with which  it has not been invested.

Secondly) In said minutes we fend find the name <of> Oliver  Cowdery associated with beatheren [Sidney] Gilbert and Partradge  in writing a letter to the agent in in ohio on business [p. [1]]