cut off those certificates. He would also recommend that the council take such steps as will tend to further the works of the . and to order a plan of of the building to be made, and a bill of the lumber and other materials which are wanting to be made out and presented to this council
thought it would be best to appoint a committee to attend to this business and not take up the time of the council.
The made some remarks on the propriety of entering into measures to cut off those certificates which are lost or stole.
The decided that go on to regulate the business as fast as circumstances will admit agreeably with previous instructions. [p. [212]]
When the committee appointed at this meeting examined the stock, they found 272 stock certificates missing, a total value of $13,600. Of that number, 191 of them, worth $9,550, had reportedly been stolen from Wight in 1843. (“Report of a Committee,” Nauvoo House Association, Records, CHL.)
Nauvoo House Association. Records, 1841–1846. CHL. MS 2375.