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Day in the Life

Apr 10, 1878

Journal Entry

April 10, 1878 ~ Wednesday

10. [FIGURES] I Recved 1 Letter & wrote No 6. I sent 2 Bills &
order to Bleak for chair. This 10 day of April
1878 is a vary important day in the History of my life and
the Church I was Appointed at the last October Conference as
the Chairman of the Auditing Committee to Audit the
Accounts of the Late President Brigham Young Trustee in trust
of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints and
all other Church Accounts And after 6 Months of hard
Labor we find the Esstate of the late President Brigham
Young indebted to the Church on Trustee business to the Amt
of $999,000. ^63290^ And never have been Enabled to form
a settlement of the Esstate with the the Executors untill to
day when all Accounts were setled and the following property turned over

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Young, Brigham
1 Jun 1801 - 26 Aug 1877
3301 mentions
Apostle, Family
Bleak, James Godson
15 Nov 1829 - 30 Jan 1918
449 mentions

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Letter to John Taylor and the Council of the Twelve Apostles, 10 April 1878
Legal - In the Matter of the Estate of President Brigham Young, 10 April 1878
U. T. from George Q. Cannon, Brigham Young and Albert Carrington Executors of the last will and testament of Brigham Young deceased; the sum of Nine hundred and ninetynine thousand sixhundred and thirtytwo 90/100 dollars ($999,632 90/100) in the kind of property as specefied in the annexed list, less the sum of Threehundred thou- sand dollars ($300000 00/100) allowed for services of the late President Brigham Young for the past Thirty years: being in full of all claims and demands the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day-Saints has against the Estate of the late Brigham Young up to this date John Taylor. Trustee in Trust for the C. of J. C. L. D. S. Wilford Woodruff Orson Pratt, Sen. Charles C. Rich Lorenzo Snow Erastus Snow Franklin D. Richards Joseph F. Smith Councelors to the Trustee and members of the Twelve Apostles

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Apr 10, 1878