Footnotes
This serialized history drew on the journals herein beginning with the 4 July 1855 issue of the Deseret News and with the 3 January 1857 issue of the LDS Millennial Star.
The labels on the spines of the four volumes read respectively as follows: “Joseph Smith’s Journal—1842–3 by Willard Richards” (book 1); “Joseph Smith’s Journal by W. Richards 1843” (book 2); “Joseph Smith’s Journal by W. Richards 1843–4” (book 3); and “W. Richards’ Journal 1844 Vol. 4” (book 4). Richards kept JS’s journal in the front of book 4, and after JS’s death Richards kept his own journal in the back of the volume.
“Schedule of Church Records, Nauvoo 1846,” [1], Historian’s Office, Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904, CHL.
Historian’s Office. Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904. CHL. CR 100 130.
“Inventory. Historian’s Office. 4th April 1855,” [1]; “Contents of the Historian and Recorder’s Office G. S. L. City July 1858,” 2; “Index of Records and Journals in the Historian’s Office 1878,” [11]–[12], Historian’s Office, Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904, CHL; Johnson, Register of the Joseph Smith Collection, 7.
Historian’s Office. Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904. CHL. CR 100 130.
Johnson, Jeffery O. Register of the Joseph Smith Collection in the Church Archives, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Salt Lake City: Historical Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1973.
Footnotes
Historical Introduction to JS, Journal, Dec. 1841–Dec. 1842.
Source Note to JS, Journal, 1835–1836; Source Note to JS, Journal, Mar.–Sept. 1838.
See Appendix 3.
This petition from a special conference of the Macedonia branch has not been located. The letter to John Smith, informing him that the petition had been granted, was written this same day. John Smith came to Nauvoo on 8 January 1844 and was ordained a patriarch by JS two days later. (JS, Nauvoo, IL, to John Smith, [Macedonia, IL], 12 Dec. 1843, JS Collection, CHL; JS, Journal, 8 and 10 Jan. 1844.)
The “Ordinance for the health and convenience of travellers, and other purposes” authorized the mayor of Nauvoo “to sell, or give Spirits, of any quantity he in his wisdom shall judge to be for the health, comfort or convenience of such travellers or other persons as shall visit his House from time to time.” JS had recently opened the Nauvoo Mansion as a hotel, and this ordinance granted him the authority to serve liquor to guests at the hotel. The ordinance constituted an exception to a 15 February 1841 ordinance prohibiting “all Persons & Establishments” in Nauvoo from “vending Whiskey in a less quantity than a Gallon, or other Spirituous Liquors in a less quantity than a quart . . . excepting on the Recommendation of a Physician.” (Nauvoo City Council Minute Book, 12 Dec. 1843, 194; 15 Feb. 1841, 8; “Pleasure Party, and Dinner at ‘Nauvoo Mansion,’” Nauvoo Neighbor, 4 Oct. 1843, [3]; JS, Journal, 31 Aug. 1843; 15 Sept. 1843; 3 Oct. 1843.)
Nauvoo Neighbor. Nauvoo, IL. 1843–1845.
The ordinance authorized the mayor “to select and have in readiness for every emergency forty policemen to be at his disposal in maintaining the peace and dignity of the Citizens, and enforcing the ordinances” of Nauvoo. The policemen were also to be used “for ferreting out thieves and bringing them to Justice, and to act as daily and nightly watchmen.” The policemen were sworn in on 29 December 1843. A city watch under the direction of the Nauvoo Legion was created in May 1842 and was made a municipal entity in January 1843. (Nauvoo City Council Minute Book, 12 Dec. 1843; 19 May 1842, 82; 30 Jan. 1843, 156–157; JS, Journal, 29 Dec. 1843; Nauvoo City Council Rough Minute Book, 12 Dec. 1843, 24.)
According to the original ordinance on public revenue, passed 31 October 1842, “all Lands, tenements, & hereditaments” in Nauvoo were subject to taxation, “except such lands as may be owned by the City Corporation, societies, or Corporations, for the purpose of burying Ground, the Temple Lot, unimproved Church Lands, and Grounds for the use of literary institutions.” At this 12 December meeting of the city council, William Clayton petitioned the council that “all property belonging to the Temple” be exempt from taxes, not just the temple lot. Clayton’s petition was granted, and Orson Spencer was instructed to amend the ordinance accordingly. Spencer’s amendment altered the original ordinance to read that the property exempt from taxation included all “lands, tenements, hereditaments and appurtenances personal and real as may be owned by the City Corporation, societies, or Corporations,” eliminating language from the original ordinance that could be interpreted as limiting tax-exempt land owned by the church to the temple lot. (Nauvoo City Council Minute Book, 31 Oct. 1842, 106; 12 Dec. 1843, 193; Nauvoo City Council Rough Minute Book, 12 Dec. 1843, 24.)
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