At 5 PM the Brethren convened on the council ground'Prayer by councilor Reynolds Cahoon Pres Young stated the object of the council which was to lay before the Brethren for approval or disapproval the former nomination of the 12 men appointed to regulate the settling of the camp together with the designs of their Serving as High & City Council to regulate & settle or decide in matters of difference between all members of the camp & as time & the emergency of our situation would not allow us to call all the camp together'before necessity required them to enter on the duties of their office'we therefore present them before the conference Minets of the former meetings were related by the Historian Names of the council read objected by one man alone namely Bro Jacob Butterfield objected to counsellor C P Lott upon the ground that he had infringed upon his rights in Public by threatening to whip without cause & he wanted men who presided over him to be men who would protect him & Saints in all lawful measures'instead of infringing upon them Pres Young said that in as much as Bro Lott has injured you when the council is organized then we will deal with him J D Lee was called upon the read the minits of one of the meetings of the council & some items objected to by Pres Young which will be corrected at a convenient time on motion by Elder Kimble seconded by W Richards that Alpheus Cutler be the Pres of the committee & council apointed carried without a dissenting vote Reynolds Cahoon 2 C P Lott 3 A P Rockwood 4 Ezra Chase 5
Daniel Russell 6 Alanson Eldrige 7 Thomas Grover 8 Jedidiah M Grant 9 Samuel Russell 10
Winslow Farr 11 B L Clapp 12 on motion Horace S Eldrege was unamiously appointed Marshall of the camp'Pres Young proposed called our location Cutlers Park'unamiously agreed upon A letter of resolution to Pres J K Polk was read & unamiously adopted Pres Young said that at a former meeting it was decided that we form one camp'The resolution was adopted at the meeting'voted that we hearken to the council appointed as they are to dictate what would be best to do & that would superseed the necessity of so much borrowed trouble & thousands of questions that would be so frequently asked There is an other item that I wish to speak of at some future time with reference to sealings there will be no such things done until we build another temple I have understood that some of the 12 have held forth an idea that such things would be attended to in the wilderness but I say that no man hint such things from this time fourth for we will not attend to Sealings until another temple is built Some lost property was reported'after which the council was called to order'closed by Elder Kimble Bro J Scott Wm Swapp Col Kane & others were remembered before the Lord for recovery of their health about 7 eve'adjourned About 8 eve Pres Young Richards Woodruff Father John Smith (who had arrived in camp about noon) Rockwood myself & others met in council in A P
Rockwood s Tent passed off the evening in conversation on various subjects mostly upon the organization & arranging the camp also correcting History'Adjourned at 10 minutes past 11.
[source: John D. Lee, Diary]
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