---
title: Times and Seasons
description: Issues of 1845 to 1846.
authors:
  - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
editors:
  - Ebenezer Robinson
  - Don Carlos Smith
  - Smith, Joseph, Jr.
  - Taylor, John
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - newspaper
  - times-and-seasons
  - nauvoo
  - nineteenth-century
periodical: Times and Seasons
volume: 6
number: 5
published: 1845-03-15
publisher: E. Robinson and D. C. Smith; later John Taylor
publisher_place: Commerce and Nauvoo, Illinois
language: en
type: article
reference: "“To Whom It May Concern,” *Times and Seasons* 6, no. 5 (March 15, 1845): 840."
printed_title: TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1845-03-15_6_5
  transcription: Text from the Centerplace.org transcription (https://www.centerplace.org/history/ts/v6n05.htm), with its page breaks; this Internet Archive scan is the reference copy (its OCR was used only as a witness for OCR repair)
  identifier: per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1845-03-15_6_5
start_page: 840
end_page: 840
curator_note: A Mormon newspaper published by the church in Nauvoo; included for historical study. Inclusion does not imply endorsement.
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1845 (Nauvoo, Illinois); published before 1931, so public domain in the United States
  source: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1845-03-15_6_5
  publication_year: 1845
---

# To Whom It May Concern

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This certifies that Nelson Bates, a High Priest in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, has been appointed by the Twelve and other authorities, to preside over the churches in the state of New Hampshire, and is a duly authorized agent to receive tithings for the Temple from the branches in said State.

BRIGHAM YOUNG, President.

WILLARD RICHARDS, Secretary.

Nauvoo, Ill., March, 1845.

The Prophet will please insert the foregoing certificate.