Nauvoo City Council, Ordinance, , Hancock Co., IL, 13 Nov. 1841. Version copied 16 May 1843; handwriting of and ; certified by JS, 16 May 1843; two pages; JS, Papers, 1839–1844, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Springfield, IL. Includes seal.
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State of Illinois)
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Hancock County)
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I Joseph Smith Mayor of the said City of , do hereby Certify, that the Ordinance entitled An Ordinance Concerning Vagrants and disorderly Persons, is a true and perfect Copy and transcript from the Records of said , in which the Ordinances of said are duly recorded and required to be recorded by an Ordinance of said , and that said Ordinance is unrepealed, and that said Ordinance was duly published in the “Times and Seasons” a public newspaper, printed within the said City of ; within One Month after it was passed by the City Council of said , and that said Ordinance since its passage has been in force within the said City of . In faith whereof I Joseph Smith Mayor of the City of have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the Corporation of the City of at the City of this 16th. day of May A. D. 1843.