Footnotes
Revelation, 1 Aug. 1831 [D&C 58:14–18]; Revelation, 11 Nov. 1831–B [D&C 107:72, 78–80].
For JS’s revisions and corrections to the minutes featured here, see Revised Minutes, 18–19 Feb. 1834 [D&C 102].
That the members of the council drew lots may indicate that they originally intended to hold a disciplinary hearing that day; at disciplinary hearings, council members drew lots to determine who would speak on behalf of the accused and who would speak on behalf of the accuser. The revised minutes of this meeting, however, said that casting “lots by numbers” was the duty of the counselors whenever a high council was “regularly organized.” Thus, the casting of lots at this meeting may have simply indicated that the council considered itself officially organized at this point. In any event, the order in which counselors were to speak, as determined by lots at this meeting, was honored in the next two meetings of the council. (Revised Minutes, 18–19 Feb. 1834 [D&C 102:12]; Minutes, 19 Feb. 1834; Minutes, 20 Feb. 1834.)