The recently transcribed legislative debates concerning the Service Act lend support to this interpretation with a few needed refinements. For instance, the debates and the associated legislative journals reveal a hotly contested bill that was greatly modified in form and effect before it was signed into law by Governor Brigham Young on February 4, 1852. Moreover, they record in detail a series of fundamental disagreements between members of the Latter-day Saint leadership regarding theology, race, and the nature of slavery. The debates also confirm that the law had a broader purpose than has been previously reported. It is now clear, as noted, that the act authorized two related systems of indentured servitude: one for enslaved African Americans, and one for Mormon immigrants traveling from Europe and other locations.