[50]. Doctrine and Covenants, sec. lxviii: 17, 18.
[51]. Doctrine and Covenants, sec. lxviii: 20.
[52]. Doctrine and Covenants, sec. lxviii: 21.
[53]. And inasmuch as a president of the high priesthood shall transgress, he shall be had in remembrance before the common council of the church, who shall be assisted by twelve counselors of the high priesthood; and their decision upon his head shall be an end of controversy concerning him. (Doctrine and Covenants, sec. cvii: 82, 83).
[54]. Doctrine and Covenants, sec. lxviii: 19.
[55]. Doctrine and Covenants, sec. lxviii: 22-24.
[56]. Doctrine and Covenants, sec. lxxxiv: 112.
[57]. I think a careful reading of sec. lxviii of the Doctrine and Covenants, will justify this conclusion—that not only the office of presiding bishop of the church should be filled by the first-born of the sons of Aaron, but that the traveling and local bishops also, so far as can be, should be chosen from among the first born of the sons of Aaron. The following passage seems especially clear on the question: "There remaineth hereafter, in the due time of the Lord, other bishops to be set apart unto the church, to minister even according to the first; wherefore they shall be high priests who are worthy, and they shall be appointed by the first presidency of the Melchisedek priesthood, except they be descendants of Aaron, and if they be literal descendants of Aaron they have a legal right to the bishopric, if they are the first-born among the sons of Aaron." Sec. lxviii: 14-16.
[58]. Book of Ether, ch. xiii, and III Nephi, ch. xx.
[59]. Doctrine and Covenants, sec. xlv.