Bill to Incorporate the City of Nauvoo, between 4 October and 12 December 1840
Bill to Incorporate the City of Nauvoo, between 4 October and 12 December 1840
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Bill for an Act to Incorporate the City of , [, Sangamon Co., IL, between ca. 27 Dec. and 12 Dec. 1840]; handwriting of various unidentified scribes; twenty pages; 12th General Assembly, 1840–1841, House Bill No. 219 [Senate Bill no. 3], Illinois General Assembly, “Bills, Resolutions, and Related General Assembly Records,” 1st–98th Bienniums, 1819–2015, Record Series 600.001, Illinois State Archives, Springfield.
Historical Introduction
Historical Introduction
See Historical Introduction to Act to Incorporate the City of Nauvoo, 16 December 1840.
Amount of such Compensation cannot be agreed upon, the Mayor shall cause the same to be ascertained by a jury of Six disinterested freeholders of the .
Sec. 22. All jurors empannelled to inquire into the Amount of benefits or damages that shall happen to the Owner of property, so proposed to be taken, shall first be sworn to that effect, and shall return to the Mayor their inquest in writing signed by each Juror.
Sec. 23. In case the Mayor shall at any time be guilty of a palpable omission of duty, or shall wilfully And comeptly [completely] be guilty of Oppression, Malconduct or partiality in the discharge of the duties of his Office, he shall be liable to be indicted in the Circuit Court of , and on conviction he shall be fined not more than two Hundred Dollars, and the court shall have power on the recommendation of the Jury to add to the judgment of the Court, that he be removed from office.
Sec. 24. The city Council May establish and organize an institution of learning within the limits of the , for the teaching of the Arts, Sciences and learned professions to be called the “University of the City of ” which institution shall be under the control and management of a Board of Trustees, consisting of a chancellor, Registrar, and Twenty Three Regents Which Board shall thereafter be a body corporate and politic with perpetual succession, by the name of the Chancellor and Regents of the University of the City of and shall have full power to pass, ordain establish and execute all such by Laws and Ordinances [p. [8]]
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