Kirtland 18 March 1833
This day an assembly of the high Priests meet at the School room of the prophets and were organized in due form by solemn prayer to the most high by sidney Rigdon then proceded to ordain Doctor [Philastus] Hurlbut to be an elder under the hand of Sidney Rigdon after which Bro Sidney arose and desired that he and Bro Frederick [G. Williams] Should be ordained to the office that they had been called Viz to the of President of the high Priesthood and to be equal in holding the keys of the Kingdom with Brother Joseph Smith Jr according to a revelation given on the [8]th day of March 1833 in Kirtland say[ing] [p. 16]