Gershom Stokes, Rachel Page, Barnet Cole, William Thompson, Nathan Cheney, James Sherry, David Frampton, Elizabeth Pettigrew, Charles Thompson, Orin P. Rockwell, Nathan B. Baldwin, Truman Brace, Sarah Wixom, Lewis Zobriski, Henry Zobriski, Morris Harris, Absolom Tidwell, Alvin Winegar, Samuel T. Winegar, John E. Page, Levi Gifford, Edmund Durfee, Josiah Butterfield, John Killion, John Patten, John Wilkins, Abram Allen, William Felshaw. [Sidenote: Activity of the Committee on Removal.] The committee who had been appointed for removing the poor from the state of Missouri, viz.: William Huntington, Charles Bird, Alanson Ripley, Theodore Turley, Daniel Shearer, Shadrach Roundy, and Jonathan H. Hale, met in the evening of that day [January 29, 1839], at the house of Theodore Turley, and organized by appointing William Huntington chairman, Daniel Shearer treasurer, and Alanson Ripley clerk, and made some arrangements for carrying into operation the business of removing the poor. President Brigham Young got eighty subscribers to the covenant the first day, and three hundred the second day. [Sidenote: Investigation Ordered.] _Thursday, 31_.--Mr. Turner's bill of the 16th instant passed the senate. I sent the poor brethren a hundred dollar bill from jail, to assist them in their distressed situation. _Friday, February 1_: _Minutes of a Meeting of the Committee on Removal_. The committee met according to adjournment, at the house of {255} Theodore Turley; John Smith was present and acted as chairman, and Elias Smith as secretary. The meeting was called to order by the chairman. On motion, Resolved: That the covenant entered into at the last meeting be read by the Secretary, which was done accordingly. The chairman then called for the expression of sentiments on the subject of the covenant. Resolved, That the committee be increased to eleven. The following were then appointed: Elias Smith, Erastus Bingham, Stephen Markham, and James Newberry. Several of the committee addressed the meeting on the arduous task before them, and exhorted all to exert themselves to relieve and assist them in the discharge of the duties of their office, to the utmost of their abilities. Elders Taylor and Young, in the most forcible manner addressed the assembly on the propriety of union in order to carry our resolutions into effect, and exhorted the brethren to use wisdom in the sale of their property. John Smith, Chairman, Elias Smith, Secretary. The committee met again in the evening at Theodore Turley's. Alanson Ripley declined acting as clerk, and Elias Smith was appointed in his stead. Resolved, That exertions be made to remove the families of the Presidency and the other prisoners first.