Subscribed and sworn to this 11th day of December, 1843, before me AARON JOHNSON, J. P. Which I sent to the Governor, with this letter:-- _Letter--Joseph Smith to Governor Ford_. NAUVOO, December 11, 1843. SIR:--I herewith forward your Excellency another affidavit on the subject of the late kidnapping, and shall continue [to do] the same as they {110} come to hand, expecting your cordial co-operation in the premises that the laws may be magnified and made honorable, and our lives held precious, our friends saved from jeopardy, and the captives freed. Respectfully, I have the honor to be Your obedient servant, JOSEPH SMITH. [Sidenote: Nauvoo's Police Force Enlarged.] Meetings were held and resolutions passed in all the wards of the city, requesting the city council to raise a company of forty men to act as police. Last night, two ruffians, whose names are unknown, went to the house of Brother Richard Badham--a farmer living on the prairie, robbed the house of $4.50, threatened his life, stabbed him in the abdomen, when part of his caul gushed out. Dr. John M. Bernhisel dressed his wounds today, and he thinks there is a prospect of his recovering. _Tuesday, 12.--_In office at nine a.m., and wrote a letter to my uncle:-- _Letter--Joseph Smith to John Smith--The Latter Appointed a Patriarch_. _President John Smith:--_The petition of a special conference at Macedonia of last November for your appointment as Patriarch in the Church has been received, duly considered, and is granted. You have my best wishes in your behalf, as well as my prayers, that you may fill so honorable and exalted a station with the dignity, sobriety, and grace which has hitherto characterized your conduct and communion with men, as a man of God. Respectfully yours, JOSEPH SMITH. At ten, a.m., attended City Council, which passed an ordinance exempting all church property from city tax. In accordance with the petitions from the several wards, the council passed the following:--"An ordinance for selecting forty policemen and for other purposes. _Ordinance Enlarging Police Force_. "Section 1. Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Nauvoo that the Mayor of said city be, and is hereby authorized to select and have in readiness for every emergency forty policemen, to be at his {111} disposal in maintaining the peace and dignity of the citizens, and enforcing the ordinances of the said city, for ferreting out thieves and bringing them to justice, and to act as daily and nightly watchmen, and be under the pay of said city." Passed December 12, 1843. JOSEPH SMITH, Mayor. W. RICHARDS, Recorder. The Council also passed "An ordinance for the health and convenience of travelers and other persons." _Ordinance on the Personal Sale of Liquors_.