115 years ago today - 115 years (in 1 days) - Jul 27, 1899; Thursday

The President [Snow] now directed the attention of the Council to the position the Church should take in the prosecutions against polygamists that were now going on and were likely to continue. The subject was considered at great length, and it was the general sense of the meeting that each case must stand on its own merits

and be regarded as a personal matter. Such was the substance of the testimony of the First Presidency and those Apostles who appeared before the Master in Chauncery, in August 1891. It was decided, however, in order to show that polygamy was not on the increase, to get the Presidents of Stakes to collect statistics, giving the number of polygamists when the Manifesto was issued, and the number existing now.

A communication was read, signed by John Henry Smith and Matthias F. Cowley, a committee appointed some time ago to ascertain how cheaply the Book of Mormon and other Church works could be printed. On motion, the communication was received, to be acted upon hereafter. ...

[Source: First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve minutes]

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  1. AnonymousJuly 27, 2014

    https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE513117

    file/images 366-367 (Journal History).

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