John Taylor · 1870 May Special Conference · 1870-05-06
Published in Journal of Discourses, Volume 13, pp. 221-233. Reported by David W. Evans in Pitman shorthand; the speaker did not review this text before publication. Text transcribed from the printed JD.
Pitman shorthand by David W. Evans; speaker did not review. Re-promoted to preferred/source_url during Final Review (2026-08) after the BYU page confirmed loading server-side.
Page-anchored scan witness for Journal of Discourses volume 13, page 221.
Proofread against the source text.
Proofread against the official/CHL/JSP source plus scan/OCR witness; body confirmed against the Weebly transcript, no changes needed.
Collated word-by-word against the original scan.
Heavyweight pass: confirmed JD 13:221-233 citation against indexes/jod-page-index.json (unchanged, already correct — this file already had a precise IA page-anchored citation from a prior pass). Added session ("Friday Morning Session") and talk_order (1) confirmed against the Weebly page's own day-by-day agenda for the Fortieth Annual Conference (opened April 6, adjourned to reconvene May 5-8). Checked body-length proportionality per page (given the truncation found in 1867 October's Erastus Snow file) and confirmed proper closing; no truncation.
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