[Hosea Stout Diary] Sunday Nov the 29th 1846. Went to meeting at the stand. Br Ezra T. Benson spoke on different subjects & related some of his travels to the East. He had just returned home from a mission whither he had been gone for some three or four months.
At 6 oclock in the evening I went to council at H. S. Eldridges house. The report of the Bishops was read and handed back for further improvements. The Bishops were required to have the people turn out and work on the mill race so as for one third of the city may work in a day for three days in succession. This is to complete the race before the ground freezes.
Addison Everett & Thomas Lang were then ordained Bishops under the hands of President B. Young & Heber C. Kimball.
President Brigham Young made the report of the Police committee which was accepted and the committee discharged[.] It was then voted that the police recieve 75 cents for every tour of duty they perform of half a night for their wages and that the Captain receive 75 cents per day for his services. Horace S. Eldridge as Marshall was then appointed assessor and collector for the police & a committee appointed to draft an assessment law for the council. I came home about 10.
[source: Diaries of Hosea Stout]
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