Translation of a report from the royal government of Middle Franconia of the royal Bavarian department of the interior for church and school affairs, dated April 14, 1883.

Translation of a report from the royal government of Middle Franconia of the royal Bavarian department of the interior for church and school affairs, dated April 14, 1883.

The royal bezirks-court at Nuremberg, in its inclosed report of the 15th of last month, together with its “judicial act” and four accompaniments, recommends to the royal ministry of the interior to cause the expulsion of the American citizen and Mormon missionary Johann Georg Hafen, of Santa Clara (Utah, North America), from the Kingdom of Bavaria, under article 50, subdivision 2, of the law of 16 April, 1868/23, Feb., 1872 concerning residence, marriage, and domicile, and furnishes the fullest and most satisfactory grounds for its recommendation.

We take the liberty of also reporting in this connection that the Mormon sect has already spread itself within the city limits and bezirks-court domains of Fürth and Erlangen, in consequence of which we have caused the district police authorities to proceed against this sect with uniform action.

We further report that the foreman Anton Ilg, heretofore mentioned as the head of the Mormon community, has withdrawn from the same—whether of his own free will or otherwise is not known.

We have, as appears from the inclosed judicial document of the bezirks-court, officially questioned Anton Ilg as to whether he still insists on an answer to the request heretofore mentioned, made on February 15–19, 1882, by him, in the name of his former associates in faith, for permission to hold common indoor divine services in Bavaria; he declared that for himself he withdrew that request.