Minutes, 13 November 1841, Copy
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Source Note
Nauvoo City Council, Minutes, , Hancock Co., IL, 13 Nov. 1841. Featured version copied [ca. 13 Nov. 1841] in Nauvoo City Council Minute Book, 29–32; handwriting of ; CHL. For more complete source information, see the source note for Nauvoo City Council Minute Book, 1841–1845.
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Historical Introduction
On the evening of 13 November 1841 in , Illinois, JS attended and participated in a meeting of the Nauvoo City Council, which met at ’s office to conduct a variety of business matters. For example, JS, one of the city councilors, presented three new city ordinances that were then passed by the council: one regarding financial liabilities assumed by those appealing cases from the mayor’s court, one regarding the salaries of city officers, and one concerning vagrants and disorderly people.Recorder took rough minutes during the meeting in a notebook and then used those original minutes to record the official minutes in the city council’s ledger book; that is the version featured here.
Footnotes
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1
The Nauvoo City Council had been meeting at Hyrum Smith’s office in Nauvoo since 23 October 1841. (See Nauvoo City Council Minute Book, 16 and 23 Oct. 1841, 23–24.)
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2
See Nauvoo City Council Rough Minute Book, 13 Nov. 1841, 39–40. It is possible that this official ledger book is one of the “books of record” that Sloan in an earlier meeting had requested the city council purchase. At the 13 November meeting, described in the minutes featured here, the council agreed to provide record books and other clerical supplies to Sloan. (Nauvoo City Council Minute Book, 6 Nov. 1841, 28–29; Hyrum Smith and John P. Greene, Committee Report, Nauvoo, IL, [between 6 and 13 Nov. 1841], Nauvoo, IL, Records, CHL.)
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