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Hosea Stout Journals

February 27, 1848

Summary: A police meeting was held in the council house.

Journal entry: Sund Feb 27th 1848. Fine clear warm morning. Around all day. Gardner, Thos Rich, Carns & Calkins had a police meeting at the Council house in the evening. Here W. P. Mclntire was taken into the Police. They decided to have only two tours of duty each night & have more police out at once.

Source: On the Mormon Frontier: The Diary of Hosea Stout 1844-1861 Volume I - Edited by Juanita Brooks. Permission to use excerpts granted by Utah State Historical Society and the University of Utah Press.