[Erastus
Snow] concluded by remining the congregation of the Rule that when a man is
worthy to enter into the Holy Order of Plural Marriage, his application after
being recommended by his proper local officer, must be made to the President
of the Church, —the only one man on the earth who holds the keys of this Holy Order of
Matrimony. (James
Godson Bleak, The Annals of the Southern Mission, December 14, 1878, in The Annals of the
Southern Mission: A Record of the History of the Settlement of Southern Utah, ed. Aaron McArthur
and Reid L. Neilson [Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books, 2019], 515)