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Memorial to the United States President, 30 March 1844
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JS, Memorial, , Hancock Co., IL, to the United States President [], , 30 Mar. 1844; handwriting of ; JS signature in unidentified handwriting; docket and notation in handwriting of ; three pages; JS Collection, CHL.
of any nation or government, acknowledged as such, break the faith of Treaties between the , and any other nation, or violate any known law of nations, thereby endangering the peace of these . And further;
Be it known; that, the said “Joseph Smith shall confine his operations to those principles of action specified in the Preamble to these Letters;” And further;
Be it known; that, the more fully to encourage the said Smith in his laudable and magnanimous undertaking to ameliorate the conditions of the opprest, and encourage him in the same, it is the good will and pleasure, of the that the privileges therein granted to the memorialist, shall be as perpetual as the circumstances and specifications which have originated the same, as set forth in the preamble to these letters, and the same is hereby confirmed unto the said Smith, so far as the power thereof is vested in the Executive.
In testimony whereof I have caused these letters to be made patent, and the great Seal of State to be affixed
Done at the City of .
Joseph Smith
City of Illinois March 30th. 1844 [p. [3]]
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Signature in unidentified handwriting.