In the Nauvoo City Council minutes for June 8, 1844, Hyrum Smith discussed the plural marriage revelation.
"For the Neighbor," Nauvoo Neighbor, Extra, June 17, 1844, [1]
Councillor, H. Smith, continued, . . . referred to the revelation, read to the High Council of the Church, which has caused so much talk about a multiplicity of wives; that said Revelation was in answer to a question concerning things which transpired in former days, and had no reference to the present time.