Act to Incorporate the City of Nauvoo, 16 December 1840, as Published in Laws of the State of Illinois
Source Note
“An Act to Incorporate the City of Nauvoo,” [, Sangamon Co., IL], 16 Dec. 1840. Version published [1841] in Laws of the State of Illinois [1840–1841], 52–57.
<Boundaries of the > <Including the plats of and > Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of , represented in the General Assembly, That all that district of country embraced within the following boundaries, to-wit: beginning at the north-east corner of section thirty-one, in township seven north of range eight, west of the fourth principal meridian, in the county of , and running thence west to the north-west corner of said section, thence north to the , thence west to the middle of the main channel of the said , thence down the middle of said channel to a point due west of the south-east corner of fractional section number twelve, in township six north, of range nine, west of the fourth principal meridian, thence east to the south-east corner of said section twelve, thence north on the range line between township six north and range eight and nine west to the south-west corner of section six, in township six north, of range eight west; thence east to the south-east corner of said section; thence north to the place of beginning, including the town plats of and , shall hereafter be called and known by the name of the “City of ,” and the inhabitants thereof are hereby constituted a body corporate and politic by the name aforesaid, and shall have perpetual succession, and may have and use a common seal, which they may change and alter at pleasure.
<Lots adjoining the > Sec. 2. Whenever any tract of land adjoining the city of shall have been laid out into town lots and duly recorded according to law, the same shall form a part of the “City of .” [p. 52]