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.
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<Militia, name of> <Court martial> <Proviso> <Military duty> <At disposal of mayor and Governor> <Proviso> Sec. 25. The city council may organize the inhabitants of said subject to military duty into a body of independent military men, to be called the “,” the court martial of which shall be composed of the commissioned officers of said legion, and constitute the law making department, with full powers and authority to make, ordain, establish and execute all such laws and ordinances as may be considered necessary for the benefit, government, and regu[l]ation of said legion: Provided, Said court martial shall pass no law or act repugnant to, or inconsistent with the Constitution of the , or of this , and, Provided, also, That the officers of the legion shall be commissioned by the Governor of the . The said legion shall perform the same amount of military duty as is now, or may be hereafter required of the regular militia of the , and shall be at the disposal of the mayor in executing the laws and ordinances of the corporation, and the laws of the , and at the disposal of the Governor for the public defence, and the of the laws of the , or of the , and shall be entitled to their proportion of the public arms, and, Provided, also, That said legion shall be exempt from all other military duty.
<Exempt from road labor> <Street labor in 3 days> Sec. 26. The inhabitants of the “City of ” are hereby exempt from working on any road beyond the limits of the , and for the purpose of keeping the streets, lanes, avenues, and alleys in repair, to require of the male inhabitants of said , over the age of twenty-one and under fifty years, to labor on said streets, lanes, avenues, and alleys, not exceeding three days in each year; any person failing to perform such labors when duly notified by the supervisor, shall forfeit and pay the sum of one dollar per day for each day so neglected or refused.
<Punishment of offenders> Sec. 27. The city council shall have power to provide for the punishment of offenders, by imprisonment in the or jail, in all cases when such offenders shall fail or refuse to pay the fines and forfeitures which may be recovered against them.
Sec. 28. This act is hereby declared to be a public act, and shall take effect on the first Monday of February next.