Show WEDDING BY CLERK BARRED BY CHURCH First Presidency Denies Authorization Authorization Authorization Au Au- to Officers to 4 Perform Ceremony Deputy milt county clerks commonly known as cupIds who w hu have o been ty tying tying ty- ty knots by hy reason of or the their l' l ing marital ml 1 11 as elders or bishops In the position Mormon church are alP deprived of or that future by hy an order Issued privilege n In Iii 1 by the tho first l presidency yesterday P rh rile Die order follows follow It H has hns been cu customary for Ol the first t presidency of o th the church to give a special pr written authorization to deputy I vial cial county count clerks to perform the marriage I Church of nf ceremony as nf elders of or the the Jesus Christ of day Latter l Saints in ht behalf of or couples cO 1 legally eaI entitled to I decided echle to censo marry marn but hut we havo o Issuing authorizations of oC this charac charac- character confine tho thin authority to ter and thus thug marriages mn outside ou of or tho the I or acting bishops temples to lo bishops und and to stake slake pr presidents or acting stake I according to a rule of oC the th presidents church alra already existing W respectfully a ask k deputy county count all others interested to be beso beso beso clerks clerics and so advised and to govern themselves cs accordingly It IL Is Jg Ri signed nd by b President Joseph F I FSmith I counsellors Anthon Anthor 1 II Smith and m his Lund and Charles W. W Penrose that there has i been een It Is explained al 1150 of or the practice which reflects upon the tho integrity of the order rather than upon tho ho Individual and anel to protect protect pro pro- I tret th the church the ban an was waR placed I the practice upon the Woo Woodruff Up tp to about th the time timo of manifesto In any Rny elder of 01 tho the I 1 church w was waR as pt permitted to perform lI g Later this practice was confined confined conr con con- fined r l Cl to tn bishops and nn l presidents of or stakes and still HUll later for tor convenience deputy county clerks clerics vested rested with religious ro- ro riles zero oro riven 1 authority |