Memorial to Nauvoo High Council, 18 June 1840, Copy
Source Note
JS, Memorial, to Nauvoo high council, , Hancock Co., IL, 18 June 1840. Version copied ca. June 1840; handwriting of ; two pages; JS Collection, CHL. Includes dockets.
thinks and verily believes that the time has come when he should devote his time exclusively to these subjects and be free from the Anxiety and trouble necessarily belonging to business transactions and desires that your honorable body will so far relieve him in that respect as to appoint some one of to take charge of the City plot and attend to the temporalities of the Church—
That should your honorable body deem it propper to do so your memorialist would respectfully suggest that he would have no means whatever of support— and should therefore would request that some one whom your honors might mention or select might be instructed to see that all his necessary wants be provided for as well as sufficient means or appropriations for a Clerk or Clerks which he might want to aid him in his undertakings
Your memorialist would take the liberty to reccommend that one of the Bishops of the Church be appointed to see that his wants be supplied, and that to attend to this business. And would also reccommend Elder to act as Clerk in selling Lots making bonds writings &c as he is a person every way qualifed for that office and is conversant with the affairs of the same—
A memorial of Joseph Smith to the High council . (about) 1840
a memorial of Joseph Smith to the High Council. . (about) 1840 [p. [2]]