& of incom tax on thirty pound of proffits arising from Buisness Which they did while togeather of £8, 15/— I am informed that the office is holden for all taxes not Paid by former occupant the Last Present Resident in the office must pay it or have his property Sold for them the Nessary Expences for the office and the paying of Elder and for their Labors and the [illegible] of paying the Lawyers fees for Pugmier & Cartwright [6 words illegible] to such [illegible] of all those imgrants [6 words illegible] on the Look out Least I founder my ship on reason of Bankrupce and have to cut Stick for but I shall do all I Can to keep my head above water and accomplish your Execute your orders I have Received no mony from any scourse Whatever for you <​to be aplyed towards sending those you sent for​> Except the Books of Mormon and that I shal keep for you I have not sold but few of the times and seasons that sent by me if I had the other 7 Numbers to Compleet the Vollum I would get them Bound and then I think they Would sell Better. I have sent five pound for towards the times and seasons that I Brought With me by the Hand of William Kay who has Recipted it to me and will Recet it to Him as fast as I get money for them I will send it to Him it would Be much Better to Reprint them Here and save the Duty When I first came to this I informed the Peopel that the printing of the Star would Be stoped and in my travels among the churches they intreated of me not to stop the star unless we Printed the Tims and Seasons for they could not think of Doing without some Publication upon which they could Depend the confousion that was ocationed through Briten the few months that the Star was stoped and the ernest Requests [p. 22]