<​12​> “ X (Facts 40, 41,) Lucas.”

<​Petition of Joseph Smith Jr. for ​> <​15​> Friday the 15th. I made the following Petritin [petition]. To thee (X Facts 31, 32, 33, 34 <​See Let. 21 &c​>) Smith. The same day , , , , my fellow prisoneres, made each a similar petition.—

<​​> <​17​> Sunday 17— Extract. from the Minutes of “a confe[re]nce (X T & S, 15) Clerk” <​s left the prison where she had voluntar[il]y been with her husband most of the winter, & retund [returned] to , to get passage with some of the brethr[e]n for .​>

This morning “the committee met at the house of , . (D. Minutes 5) Reply.”

<​18​> Monday 18 “The Committee (ϕ mnuts [minutes] D, 5.) Jails”

<​20​> Wednesday. . (E see <​Josephs Letter​> orignal) .

<​While I was in the following [illegible] were <​made by the witnesses &​> sent to — viz “(“ (see compla[i]nt) ,” “ (same) ”​>

<​ & ’s Mission to the .​> <​24 <​25​>​> Monday 25. About this time, & started on their Mission to see the .— They call[e]d on the Sheriff of , or jailer, for a copy of the mittemus [mittimus] by which we <​the​> <​prisone[r]s​> were held in custody, but he confessed he had none. They went to & he made out a kind of mittinus At this time we had been in prison several months without even a mittimes, and that too for crimes said to have been committ[e]d in another county. and took all the papers by which we were held, or which were then made out for them, with our petitions to the Supreme Judges. & went to . The was absent. The Secreta[r]y of State treated them very kindly, and when he saw the papers could hardly belive there was all the documents by which the prisoners were held in custody, for they were illegal. <​ also had diceved [deceived] them in his paper, and sent them off with such documets that a chage of venue could never be effected in time.​> The Secretary was astonished at ’s acting as he did, but said he could do nothing in the prisons, & if the were pesent he could do nothi[n]g, but the Secreta[r]y wrote a letter to . They breth[re]n then [p. 48]