Show OFFICIAL DEU declaration to whom it may concern prow ir HB dispatch dis ts having been sent for political purposes from salt like lako which have been widely published to tho effect en act that the llie utah ir in their e report to the secret secretory nry of tile the interior allege allego hat that plural ignarri lypa ages ore still antill being solemnized and that hat forty or inora stich marriages iivo luu contracted lit in utah since jut t autio or during the past year alfo aleo that hint lit ii public discourses the iw of the church have taught encouraged and liged the contin of the practice tito of 1 I thereat therefore re its 8 president of tile alib church of jesus christ of latter day saints do hormby in the most declare declara that thai these chargoy chargo 4 tru tire fala fal lif wo lire aro not liol teach hig K pol agamy of 01 plural marriage nor perl any to enter it into ito attl lt practice und mid I 1 deny dainy that either cither forty or any other number of plural lunil marriages have duchik burbig atiat 1 alli tl 1 11 1 wa fir W kiy in it tile me turri territory tory one has bits lipon been reported lit jn aji ati tile alleged that tw tile Infirri ngo I 1 was vas performed lot in the P kd 11 dowl hautle in ill silt salt lako lake city lit in tile spring of 2889 hut VO not been able to learn wit who 0 tile whatever waa d one lit in this was mas without illy k knowledge knowl 11 edgo in consequence of this occur ronco tho ii 11 hou wap hy by my lily instructional instruct iona ione taken down without delay Inagi nuch ns as laws have loen well tn till acted by Co tigress forbidding claral liichi laws havo have beell pronounced constitutional by the court of last resort I 1 hereby deuparo my intention to submit to those laws ws and to couo iwo my with tho trion ibers of the church over which 1 I preside to hava linao thorn do ilk there is ia my to tile church or lit in thosa of my as tho tinie timo specified which can reasonably te b construed ate or pol ganly and when ally rider elder of ti the church line has used longi lang ingo ungo which appeared to convey such ruch tenc hinc a lio lie lins hns been promptly reprove reproved and I 1 now flow publicly declare thai tant my advice to ilia iatter dav saint is to front from contracting ally anny marriage forbidden by the law of tile tho land WOODRUFF president dont of tile the church of jesus christ of latter day saints |