Personally— appeared , before me Joseph Smith, Mayor of said , and upon his oath deposeth and saith that from information he has recived he verily beleives that the peac[e] of said is in danger from a Mobocratic assemblage at , and a force collected under the command of Col in the lower part of the , and runners having been sent to to excite the Missourians to Join the Mobbers in this for the purpose of making a descent on said , or disturbing its peace[a]ble inhabitants— and further your deponent saith not.

Subscribed and sworn to before me this 18th Decr. 1843