[Hosea Stout Diary] Wednesday Jany 28th 1846. Met the guard at the Temple cellar as usual and regulated it for the day and then had a talk with James Pace and warned him against the Spirit of dissension which had prevailed in the "old Police" and Showed him how to detect it & then was with Hunter, Scott, & C. Allen at the Temple untill about Eleven oclock when I recieved news that some 6 or 8 of the govorners troops (moblitia) had come in town again.I sent some of the guard to watch their movements & then went up in the Temple and informed Brigham Young of their arrival.I remained there a short time and then went down again & was informed that they had left for Pontoosuc where they had quartered some troops.Met the guard as usual and then apointed Eight oclock A. M. and three and a half in the evening for the times of meeting the guard and then regulated the guard & police as usual for the night and then came up in the Temple again before dark a short time and staid all night
[source: Diaries of Hosea Stout]
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