Military Appointment— of <​Long Island​> is hereby appointed Inspector General of the Nauvoo Legion, with the rank and title of Major General: his place to be supplied when absent, by the Major General of the Legion City of . Ill. April 12 A D 1842. Joseph Smith Lieutenant General. [HC 4:593]

<​13​> Wednesday 13. I introduced Messrs. , and Robinson into the Lodge Room in the morning, and , and in the evening.

About 150 Saints from England landed in from the Steamer Louisa, and about 60 from the Amaranth.

<​14​> Thursday 14. Esqre. Lawyer from arrived and commenced an investigation of the principles of General Insolvency in my behalf according to the Statutes, for the United States Congress had previously instituted a General Bankrupt Law, by which any individual who was owing to a certain amount more than he was able to pay, could make out a Schedule of his property, and of debts due from himself and by a specified process, pass the same in the hands of a Commissioner, Government Agent or “Assignee” who would make a dividend of all his effects, and pay his creditors whatever per centage his property amounted to, and then the individual was at liberty to start anew in the world, and was not subject to liquidate any claims which were held against him previous to his insolvency, although his property might not have paid but the least per centage or none at all. The justice or injustice of such a principle in law, I leave for them who made it, the ; Suffice it [HC 4:594] to say the law was as good for the Saints as for the Gentiles, and whether I would or not, I was forced into the measure, by having been robbed, mobbed, plundered, and wasted of all my property, time after time in various places, by the very ones who made the law, namely, the people of the , thereby having been obliged to contract heavy debts, to prevent the utter destruction of myself, family, and friends, and by those who were justly and legally owing me, taking the advantage of the same act of [p. 1320]