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Pres. Hyde that proper to dispense with report from
the several Branches but wished the presidents of the
several Branches to  see that the people attended to worship
not only on sundays but morning and evening each day
        sung a hymn o 57 pg. and adj. 1 hour.
                  Benediction by Pres. Hyde
1 ocl. 25 mits. Called to order, and Bro. H. Hyde led
the singing if hymn on pg. 189.. Prayer by L. Stoddard,,
supplicated for Bro. S. Hancock and others sick..
     Pres. Hyde address the Conference on the faithfulness
taking the words of the savior leading term..
    'He that is faithful over a few things shall be
made ruler over many things,, showed a person is not
fit for a ruler untill he has learned to be ruled..
     He spoke 1 hour and 20 minutes giving useful
instruction and showing the order of the rise of the
saints and their exhaltations,, sung hymn 127 pg.
                       Closed with prayer by L Stoddard...
                                                        E. M. Greene  cl---
                           Council Point  Oct  23  /47
Present Jas. Alred N. S. Bulkley H. Hyde
L. Stoddard W^m Snow Ira  Oviatt W^m Draper
W. G. Perkins and E.M. Greene.. A H Perkins' place
was filled by Jerome Benson, and H. W. Miller's by
Jas M Dodson,, prayer by W^m Draper
     After some remarks the following ordinance
was adopted as a law by a full vote..
       It is here by ordered by the High Council
of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day  Saints..

     Residents on the Potawatamie Lands,, that
any  of the said Church who may have stray
cattle or any stray creature of any kind in
in possession after the first say of Nov. next
shall give a writen description of the same to the
clerk of the branch in which he resides and such
clerk shall forthwith transmit a copy of the same to