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1864 November 22 Letter to Orson Hyde

Title

1864 November 22 Letter to Orson Hyde

Description

New immigrants are exempt from paying tithing for a year but new settlers are not. New settlements may use their tithing to build a school house.

Type

Correspondence

Sender

Brigham Young

Recipient

Orson Hyde

Date

1864 November 22

Location

Great Salt Lake City

Number of Pages

2

Subject

Government
Settlements
Tithing
Emigration

Item sets

Letterbook v. 7

360 - 361

President's Office,
Great Salt Lake City, Nov. 22, 1864. President Orson Hyde,

Dear Brother,

Your favor of the 12th instant, containing an account of your trip to the upper Settlements on the Seveir, and many interesting particulars respecting the Settlements and country, was received by me upon my arrival in the City from our visit to Kay's Ward and Ogden City, and was perused with great pleasure.

There has been no rule established by which the New Settlements have been exempted from the payment of Tithing for the first year of their being settled. New comers to the Territory have been exempted from paying their Tithing for the first year. I have no objections, however, to their using their Tithing in the New Settlements, which you mention, for the purpose of building good and substantial  School Houses, if a correct account be kept of all thar is paid in; and how it has been expended.

Bro. Jesse W. Fox has so much business on hand that I do not think <that> he can visit you with his levelling instruments for the purposes you mention in your letter. Your better course will be to get some person down there to do the business for you.

Respecting your seat in the Legislature, about which you wrote to me in a previous letter, I think that you had better not resign your seat; we wa you there.

With love and praying the Lord to bless you I remain

Your Brother in the Lord,

Brigham Young