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President's Office,
G. S. L. City, Nov. 24th, 1864.

Bishop Robert

Lewis Johnson,
Fountain Green, San Pete Co.

Dear Brother,

Your favor of the 21st instant, has just come to hand and the items contained therein have been duly noted.

There will be no emigration from Europe this coming Season by the aid of the Church teams going to the Frontiers to help the poor across the Plains. Those who emigrate will have to do so by their own means from Europe to this point. If any person wishes to send means to friends, nothing but gold will answer to be paid into the Office here.

You inform me that some of the brethren are selling their wheat to peddlers at a very low rate. If the brethren will sell heir Wheat to peddlers and others at low figures, after all the counsel, so often repeated, which has been given upon that subject, they can sell it, and we will let them go. If they will not help us, by keeping their Wheat and not selling it to peddlers, when our sole object is to help them, the gougers can gouge them. Giving the counsel wich we have given, and taking the pains which we have done upon this matter, is no profit to us; but, on the contrary, costs us time and trouble. I wish you to take the names of those who sell their Wheat, as you describe, that they may be known, and when they want bread that the cause of their destitution may also be known. This course I would like the Bishops in all the Wards to take.

I do not wish to buy either Wheat or Oats.

Praying the Lord to bless you in your Office and labors
I remain Your Brother in the Lord,

Brigham Young