[Hosea Stout Diary] Friday Decr 4th 1846. Went G. W. Mikesells today and purchased about 4 buffalo skins dressed. This is intended for an over coat & leggings &c to stem the North wind in on guard. After this I went and attended to the guard as before and attended a council at six oclock P. M. at W. Richards new house
There was much up tonight in Council about the wheat committee & other temporal affairs but nothing of interest to me but the appointment of J. C. Wright to the office of Assessor and collector for the police in the place of H. S. Eldridge who had gone to Missouri with a team instead of attending to the duty of his appointment which would have disappointed the police very materially had the police tax been delayed
The council also decided that the police should have some Church beef which will greatly relieve us as most of us have now to live on bread and water & as our regular duty.
[source: Diaries of Hosea Stout]
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