[Hosea Stout Diary] Sund. March 5th 1848. Hard S. Wind. At home sick Head ache. Distributed a lot of Beans & Buckwheat today.
Police meeting this evening to decide how much we ought to have for fixing the guns.which was arranged as follows; For those who worked by the day in taking to pieces & putting together guns 1.00 dollar per day. For cleaning a gun 1.00 dollar[.] For cleaning one Doz Bayonets 1 00 dollar
C. C. Pendleton the gun smith who superintended the whole 1 dollar 50 cents and allowed me for my trouble 15 dollars[.] Bishop Whitney was to give us credit for it on our tithing[.] The sum total was over 100 dollars.
[source: Diaries of Hosea Stout]
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