Letter from Ephraim H. Nye, 24 April 1897
President Wilford Woodruff
Salt Lake City.
Dear Brother:
Yours of the 19th Containing Draft for
$75 to hand, Please accept my sincerest thanks
the timely assistance, it was forwarded to
me to this Place.
You ask for the individual names of tith
payers. I have arranged for the presidents of
Branches to receipt to Members for tithing & I
receipt to the Presidents. This saves much of the
labor incident to the other way & secures a record in
each Branch of the individual status of each
member by keeping a Record in each Branch
of all that is paid by each member, which
had not been done prior to my arrival. There
is no record in the Mission that will show
the standing of the members on the Tithing ques-
tion prior to my arrival. But each Branch
record now does this. If this is not sat-
