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A CALIFORNIA TRAMP. 



The "Public Works " was one of the peculiar institutions of 

 the Metropolis. In order to enable the Mormons of foreign 

 countries, who were generally needy, to reach the New Jeru- 

 salem a range of workshops were erected in Temple Block, 

 where all manner of avocations were to be carried on, so that 

 the Saint after his arrival at the promised land could refund 

 the money which had been advanced by the Church for his 

 passage, by laboring in these "Public Works" the required length 



The Tabernacle. 



of time for discharging the debt he had contracted. This 

 establishment, in connection with the " Perpetual Emigrating 

 Fund Society," had been the means of bringing numbers of 

 immigrants to Utah, whom a lack of sufficient funds would 

 otherwise have compelled to remain outside the pale of sal- 

 vation. 



The other public buildings were the County Court House 



