Minutes of a Council of the First Presidency, Twelve Apostles, and Bishops of G.S.L. City, held Sunday at 5 o clock, Oct[ober]. 26, 1862.
... President B[righam]. Young said that he had but a few remarks to make. In the first place he wished to say that he considered it important that some regulations should be made in each ward of this city by which the people might be kept from associating with the troops that have come into our city. To this end he recommended that the teachers of the several wards should be constituted policemen to look after the interests of the people, and that there be added to the present number of teachers in each ward sufficient to make the aggregate in each ward 36; that if these teachers became suspicious of any persons in their wards, they should watch them day and night until they learned what they were doing and who frequented their houses. If they found any of the sisters going to camp, no matter under what pretence, they should cast them off from the Church forthwith. ...
[Source: Minutes, Quorum of Twelve]
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