Mormon History, Nov 25, 1846

[Hosea Stout Diary] Wednesday Nov 25 1846. Today I sat most of the day shivering over the fire burning and freezing in the house & a hard howling North wind blowing all day.
In the evening after regulating the guard I went to a council at Horace S. Eldridge house. This evening the Bishops was present having been previously notified to attend[.] It appeared that most of their wards were too big as it would take all their time if they did their duty whereupon President Young proposed to have the wards divided and the Bishops were appointed to do it and also to nominate other Bishops to be ordained for the additional Wards and make report to the next council.
When the city was first divided into Wards and Bishops put over them some were ordained who were of the Seventies & as the Bishopric belonged to the High Priest unless the person was a literal decendant of Aaron President Young stated that those who had been appointed Bishops of the Seventies were not under any obligations to serve & if they retained their Bishopric they must go out of the Seventies & be in the High Priests Quorum[.] This was laid over to the next council meeting.
President Young moved that every able bodied man be taxed every tenth day to be devoted to geting wood and doing such other thing as is necessary for the poor and that it be paid in advance & that the Bishops divide the city into Wards tomorrow and notify the people to commence next day to work out this tithing which was agreed to by the council[.] The men who did not work out his tithing is to pay an equivalent

[source: Diaries of Hosea Stout]

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