Single leaf, measuring 12¼ × 7¼–7⅝ inches (31 × 18–19 cm). The leaf was unevenly cut or torn along the left and right sides.

, who had served as the regular clerk of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles since at least 1841, docketed the minutes and at a later point—possibly in fall or winter 1845–1846 while preparing JS’s history—made a handful of minor graphite redactions. Richards presumably retained the minutes in his possession after inscribing them. In 1846 apparently used both the minutes and JS’s journal to construct the account of this meeting for JS’s history. The minutes were likely among the “Minutes of the Twelve 1840 to 1844” listed in an 1846 inventory of the Church Historian’s Office (later Church Historical Department). Andrew Jenson, who began working in the Church Historian’s Office in 1891 and served as assistant church historian from 1897 to 1941, initialed the document to indicate that he had reviewed it. By the mid-1970s, the minutes were included as part of the Brigham Young Office Files at the Church Historical Department (now CHL). In 1986 the minutes of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles for the 1840s in the Young files were transferred to the Office of the First Presidency. The minutes were returned to the CHL in 2008 but cataloged separately from the Young files in 2016. The document’s early docket, inclusion in the 1846 inventory, and subsequent provenance indicate continuous institutional custody.