Next the are bound to me in the sum of $2000 with good securities, and If they appopiate any money property. Where they ought not to be appropiated they are liable to me for it. and the is running to them, with funds, every day, & thus make a bridge over my nose, & I am not responible for <​it​> such proceedings. If you put it into the hands of the temple committee, I nor my clerk know nothing of it. The ought not to suffer boys to use the property as they see fit.

So long as you consider me worthy to hold this office, it is your duty to attend to the legal forms belonging to the business, & if not, put some other one in my place, My desire is that the confernce minutes may go abroad <​forth​> in such form, as those abroad may learn the order of doing business,— & that the be appointed to this special mission, of collecting funds for the , so that all may know how to send their funds safe, or bring them themselves, & no longer [illegible] to every that body that comesalong and says he is an Elder. The elders are no longer . <​& deliver them to the trutsee in trust, or my , who can always be found in my .— Who are the Temple Committee that they should receive the funds.? They are nobody.​>

When I went to the White House at and presented letters of introduction from Governor of , to , he looked at it very insignificantly & said “,— ,— Who’s ? is not any <​no-​>body.” I erred in spirit, I confess my mistake, & I now make my apology to all the world, & let it be recorded on earth & in heaven. that I am clear of the sin of being angry with for saying that “ is No-dody.” I have been sorry for it ever since.— All properties<​ property​> ought to go through the ha[n]ds of the trustee in trust,— and not be

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