V. The said Joseph Smith after he became embarrassed and in failing circumstances and after contracting the said debt due by him to the for the purpose of covering and concealing his property from his creditors and placing the same beyond their reach and to preserve the same for the future benifit of himself and his family, fraudulently conveyed and transferred and caused to be conveyed and transferred to his children and friends, large amounts of real and personal property without any valuable consideration, which property at the time of making of his inventory they held and still continue to hold under such fraudulent transfers and conveyances; but he has given no account of the same in his inventory and has fraudulently and wilfully concealed the said property in violation of the provisions of the said Act.—

, United States Attorney for the District of being duly sworn saith, that he has examined the Records of conveyances made by the said Joseph Smith and examined into the facts in relation to the same— and that the foregoing objections he verily believes to be true

Sworn to in open Court this 1st. day of October, 1842