The Brigham Young Center

Salt Lake City, Utah Territory,
Oct 16. 1869.

Elder A. Carrington
42 Islington, Liverpool.

Dear Brother:

Upon thinking over the subject of rendering assistance to the poor saints in Europe from year to year, so as to enable them to emigrate, I have been led to conclude, with a view to prevent more assistance being promised from time to time than we are able to render without incurring debt, when both the President elder at Liverpool and myself are engaged in it, each without the knowledge of the other, whereby our finances become suddenly cramped, that it will be the wisest course before you make any promises of this nature, for you to make out a list of those persons deemed most proper to assist, giving such reasons and recommendations as may be desirable as to why they <respectively> should have the preference and the amount of assistance necessary for each, which list or statement can be forwarded here and be submitted to me and those who may be selected will be ordered out from this office along with out own list or lists.

I also wish to say that if any of the brethren here write to you requesting you to send out such and such families or persons and they will be responsible you must only comply when their requests are accompanied with the funds necessary to pay the full amount of assistance needed. <and through this office too---.>

If the foregoing regulations be observed the funds can be controlled and financial embarrassment be avoided in the future, and I wish this to be recorded in a book kept for this purpose exclusively for the guidance of the Liverpool Office in financial matters, in which can also be entered whatever general instructions you may have received, pertaining to the proper conduct of business pertaining to drafts or other money matters or that you may receive from time to time, so that all those instructions may not be lost sight of or need to be repeated to every succedding elder in charge at the office in Liverpool.

As your emigration for this season is I understand over for this season you are expected to send full accounts of all indebtedness for assistance, also the notes of those assisted. with statement in due time of all the proceeds of tithing, profits on emigration &c and showing how all funds have been disposed of
and balance on hand &c.

In your experience if you can see anything amendatory of the foregoing please communicate the same to me; if you cannot, then enter the foregoing as aforesaid.

Your brother,

Brigham Young