The have had too great latitude to practice fraud, by reoeiving donations and never making report. The has suffered loss, and I am opposed to that system of collecting funds when any may receive monies.

I am opposed to any man’s handling the public funds of the church who is not duly authorizd.

I should <​would​> advise that some means be devised for transacting business on a sure foundation. The Twelve are the most suitable persons to perform this business. and I want the to devise some means to bind them <​as​> firmer than <​as​> the pillars of heaven if possible. The twelve were always honest. & it will do them no hurt to bind them.

It has been reported they receive wages, at $2,00 per day for their services. I have never heard this till recently. & I do not believe <​it.​> that the twelve had any<​that the twelve have had​> wages at all <​I know​> The twelve have never had any wages, at all any wages at all, They have always gone when & where they were sent an[d hav]e labored with their hands for their support, when at home. They have fulfilled their duty, they have always gone where they were sent, and have labored with their hands for their support, when at [home?] If we send them into the world to collect funds we want them to return there funds to this place, that they may be appropriated to the very purpose for which they were designd, I go in for binding up the Twelve, solid. putting them under bonds. to the Twelve and let this conferenc instituete an an order to this end. that the travelling expences of the agents shall not be borne out out of the funds collected. for <​building​> these houses.— & let no man pay money or stock into the hands of the twelve except he transmit an account of the same same immediately to the trustee in trust; and no man else but the twelve have authority to act as Agents. [p. 3]