Sunday 4th 3rd Sept 1837 Minutes of a conference assembled in the house of the Lord, in committee of the whole1 at 9 O clock A. M. G[eorge] W. Robinson was requested by Joseph Smith Jr to take the proceedings of this meeting, The meeting was opened by prayer by S[idney] Rigdon who then introduced Joseph Smith Jr to the congregation to know if he should still act as their Pres. as the presiding officer of the church, was chosen by a unanimous vois [voice] of the same. Pres. Smith then introduced Sidney Rigdon & Frederick G. Williams for councillors to Pres. Smith and together with him to constitute the three first presidents of the church, carried by a unanimous vote, Pres. Smith then introduced O[liver] Cowdery J[oseph] Smith Sen. Hyrum Smith, & John Smith for assistant councillors & carried by a unanimous voice of the church these last four are allso, together with the first three to be concidered the heads of the Church Voted that N[ewel] K Whitney continue to act as Bishop of this church in Kirtland Voted that R[eynolds] Cahoon & Vinsan [Vinson] Knight be councillors to the Bishop, The question was then asked the church if the Twelve apostles should hold their office of Apostleship They were named by the President individually Voted that Thomas. B. Marsh David W. Patten Brigham Young Heber. C. Kimble [Kimball] Orson Hyde P. P. Prath [Parley P. Pratt] Orson Pratt William Smith Wm E. McLellin should retain their office of apostleship; Luke Johnson, Lyman Johnson John F Boyngton [Boynton], were rejected from serving in that office Privilege was given to those that were rejected of making their confession if they had any to make. Elder Boyngton which was the onley one present at the time arose and parsailly [partially] confessed his sins and partly justifying his conduct by reason of the failure of the bank, his acknowledgments appeared not to be satisfactory, his conduct was strongly protested against, by Elder Brigham Young in a plain and energetick manner stating various reasons why he could not receive him into fellowship untill a hearty repentance was manifested, the Elder <​Young​> was followed by Elder Marsh who acquiesed in testimony, and allso disfellowshiped the conduct of Elder Boyngton

President Rigdon then arose, & made an address of conciderable length, showing the starting point or cause of all the difficulty of Elders Boyngton & Johnson, he allso cautioned all the Elders, concrning leaving their calling to persue any occupation derogatory to that calling, assuring them that if persued, God would let them run themselves into difficulties, that he may stop them in their career, that salvation may come unto them, Elder Boyngton then arose and still attributed his difficulties & conduct to the failure of the bank, stating that the bank he understood was instituted by the will & revilations of God, & he had been told that it never would fail let men do what they pleased, Pres. Smith then arose, and stated that if this had been published, it was without authority, at least from him, he stated that he allways said that unless the institution was conducted upon righteous principles it could not stand, The church was then called upon to know whether they were sattisfied with the confession of Elder Boyngton, Voted in the negative Adjourned for one hour.

Congregation assembled at 2 O clock P.M. & called to order by the Pres. & meeting opened by prayer, by Elder [Henry G.] Sherwood, the Pres. then arose and said he should next call upon the church to know if they were satisfied with the high Council & next proceeded to name them individually John Johnson, Joseph Coe, Martin Harris, & Joseph Kingsbury, were objected to, allso John P. Green[e], but his case was put over till he should be present, Noah Packard Jared Carter & Samuel H Smith were voted to stand in their office previously confered upon them. Samuel James was dropped from the council in consequence of his being absent and his situation such that he could not attend to the duties of the office. Oliver Granger, Henry G. Sherwood, William Marks, Mahu [Mayhew] Hillman, Harlow Redfield, Asa[h]el Smith, Phineas Richards, & David Dort, were chosen to fill the place of those objected to, and the seats in the council which were vacated by reason of Thomas Grover having moved to the west John Smith having been chosen one of the Presidents of the church, & Orson Johnson being excluded from the Church, all having belonged to the high council, The Pres. then called upon the church to know if the new Presidents of the Seventies should stand in their calling. Voted that John Gaylord, James Foster, Salmon Gee, Daniel S. Miles, Joseph Young, Josiah Butterfield, should retain their office, John Gould, was objected to and on learning that Levi Handcox [Hancock] one of the former presidents of the Seventies was not an high priest, he was chosen in the place of John Gould. The Pres then arose & made some remarks concerning the former presidents of the Seventies, their calling the authority of the priesthood &.c.

Voted that the old or former presidents of the Seventies, be refered to the quorum of high priests, those which were previously ordained to the high priesthood.

Closed by Singing an hymn & a short prayer by Pres. Smith