| 459 "Resolved that Bro. E. H. Webb labor in the districts of Sacramento, Stockton, and El Dorado.
"Resolved that Bro. J. Newman go on a mission to San Luis Obispo, and labor in connection with Bro. Outhouse.
"Resolved that this conference invest Bros. Alexander H. Smith and William Anderson, with power to appoint district presidents, subject to the ratification of the next conference.
"Resolved that Bro. Glaud Rodger labor as a seventy, and that he be relieved of the duty of presiding.
"Resolved that we sustain Bro. Dungan in his present field of labor in Humboldt. . . .
"Resolved that Bro. E. C. Brand has made reconciliation to this conference. That he be received by baptism into the church.'-The Saints' Herald, vol. 11, pp. 43, 44.
An eventful and progressive year which brought many seasons of peace and joy to the saints was made sad in its closing by the death of Apostle James Blakeslee, of the Quorum of the Twelve. He died at Batavia, Illinois, December 18, 1866, after a long and painful illness. For further particulars see his biography. On December 18, Elder Thomas Standeven wrote from Hannibal, Missouri, giving an account of his labors in England and announcing that he and Elder Joseph Boswell had returned to America.
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