Notice, 16 December 1843
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, Notice, , Hancock Co., IL, 16 Dec. 1843. Featured version published [ca. 20 Dec. 1843] in “Notice to Emigrants and Latter-day Saints Generally,” Nauvoo Neighbor (Nauvoo, Hancock Co., IL), 20 Dec. 1843, vol. 1, no. 34, [3]. For more complete source information, see the source note for Notice, 26 Aug. 1843.
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NOTICE TO EMIGRANTS AND LATTER-DAY SAINTS GENERALLY.
I feel it my duty to say to the bretheren generally, and especially those who are emigrating to this place, that there is in the hands of the Trustee in Trust, a large quantity of lands, both in the city and adjoining Townships in this county, which is for sale—some of which belongs to the church and is designed for the benefit of the poor, and also to liquidate debts owing by the church, for which the Trustee in Trust is responsible. Some also is land which has been consecrated for the building of the Temple, and some for the .
If the brethren who move in here and want an inheritance will buy their lands from the Trustee in Trust, they will thereby benefit the poor, the Temple and the , and even then only be doing that which is their duty and which I know, by considerable experience, will be vastly for their benefit and satisfaction in days to come. Let all the brethren therefore, when they move into , consult President Joseph Smith the Trustee &c, and purchase their lands of him, and I am bold to say that God will bless them and will hereafter be glad they did so.
We hold ourselves ready at any time to wait upon the brethren and show them the lands belonging to the church and Temple &c., and can be found any day either at President Joseph Smith's Bar Room or the Temple Recorder's Office, at the Temple.
, Clerk.
, Dec. 16, 1843. [p. [3]]
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