JS, License, for George Reader, , Hancock Co., IL, 17 or 19 Oct. 1843. Version published in “Counterfeiters,” Saint Louis (MO) Reveille, 1 June 1844, p. [2]. Transcription from a microfilm image obtained from the University of Illinois, Urbana, in 2019.
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This certifies that George Reader has been received into the , organized on the sixth of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty, and has been an , according to the rules and regulation of said Church; and is duly authorized to preach the gospel, agreeably to the authority of that office. Given by the direction of a general of the authorities of said Church, assembled in , Ill., on the sixth of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty. (Signed;)
Joseph Smith, .
, Clerk.
, Oct. 19th, 1843.
On the back of this, was the following endorsement