Mormon History, Oct 7, 1849 (Morning, Conference)

[Brigham Young Sermon] Pres. Brigham Young was sustained as the first President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints'- Pres. Young then said that as Isaac Morley is appointed to go and preside over the settlement in the Sandpitch Valley, it will be necessary to appoint another President in his stead; and as Elder Sherwood is the eldest member of the High Council he is now nominated to fill that office'- Pres. Young and Kimball made some remarks on the duties of Teachers, showing their right [and] duty to teach, and [-] over all saints, in their several wards, High Priests not accepted. -- SLC Bowery [Thomas Bullock Minutes, LJA; Thomas Bullock—LDS Church Reporter, 1844-56.C, Archives, Church History Library, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah.; GCM, Archives, Church History Library, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah..; General Church Minutes. Selected Collections from the Archives of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints DVD 1 (2002)]

[source: The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009), http://bit.ly/BY-discourses]

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