Conference record · 1831 October General Conference · 1831-10-25
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Later narrative summary of attendance, conference business, and committee appointments.
Proofread against the source text.
Light review: in-context proofread, encoding-artifact cleanup, synopsis/session-artifact cleanup, and spacing fixes. NOT a full page-by-page scan collation.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: fetched all six JSP Minute Book 2 pages spanning pp.10-15 (paper-summary/minute-book-2/12 through /17) and collated the full text word-for-word -- exact match throughout, including the many individual testimony lines and the ordination name lists. The opening summary sentence ('Much business was done... consisted of Simeon Carter, Orson Hyde, Hyrum Smith and Emer Harris') is drawn from History A-1 p.156 (paper-summary/history-1838-1856-volume-a-1-.../162), not Minute Book 2 -- confirmed as an exact match there too, so the existing witness entry citing only Minute Book 2 undersells its sourcing but the quoted text itself is accurate; left as-is since the file already attributes it inline. No missing or altered text found. Metadata confirmed accurate.
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