| 113 Bishop Rogers reported on hand at last report and received since annual conference, $1,013.97; expended, $990.32; on hand, $23.65. Danish mission: On hand and received, $118.30; expended, $117.80; balance, 50 cents. The chairman of committee on history reported as follows:
We your committee on history beg leave to report: The circumstances and employment of your committee have precluded their doing anything toward the history contemplated by you in your appointment. We therefore ask to be discharged, or that a time indefinite be set for a report. All of which is respectfully submitted.
JOSEPH SMITH.
COUNCIL BLUFFS, September 9, 1875.
-The Saints' Herald, vol. 22, p. 588.
The committee was continued, and the indefinite time asked for was granted.
The committee on book of parliamentary usage also reported that it had examined the manuscript so far as prepared and with some suggestions returned it to President Smith with its indorsement [endorsement].
"President Joseph Smith stated that the book was nearly completed; only the rule on elders' courts remaining to be examined. Report was received and committee continued."
The First Quorum of Elders asked for the ordination of Elders H. A. Stebbins and D. H. Bays as counselors to President Elijah Banta. The seventies asked for the ordination of Elder E. C. Brand as one of the seven presidents of Seventy. The high priests asked for the ordination of Elders William Redfield and David M. Gamet as counselors to President Charles Derry. These were all ordained on the 12th under the hands of Elders Joseph Smith, I. L. Rogers, T. W. Smith, and Z. H. Gurley.
The subject of ordination of Seventy deferred from last annual conference was taken up and the following prevailed after some discussion:
Resolved, That until it shall be otherwise decided by revelation or act of a General Assembly, the ordination of seventies prior to April, 1873, shall be held as legal, and those so ordained authorized to act as such officers; but that this action does not warrant the further ordinations of seventies except as provided by the rules and precedents of the April session of 1873; and further that it be ordered that the secretary of the
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