Minutes, 1 May 1841, Copy
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Source Note
Nauvoo City Council, Minutes, , Hancock Co., IL, 1 May 1841. Featured version copied [ca. 1 May 1841] in Nauvoo City Council Minute Book, pp. 18–19; 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 1 May 1841 the , Illinois, city council met at JS’s to conduct business concerning the city cemetery, city streets, stray dogs, and ’s mill. As a councilor, JS actively participated in this meeting, making motions for resolutions and speaking about the various topics. took minutes of the 1 May 1841 city council meeting in a notebook. Sloan then used those original minutes to record the official minutes in the council’s ledger, which is the version featured here. For whatever reason, Sloan did not copy all of the text from the original minutes into the official version. Those few omissions are noted in the footnotes to the transcript.
Footnotes
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Since 15 March the city council had been meeting at JS’s office. Previously, the council met at the house of Amos Davis. (Nauvoo City Council Minute Book, 8 and 15 Mar. 1841, 16; Minutes, 3 Feb. 1841.)
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Saturday May 1st. 1841.
City Council met pursuant to adjournment.— Meeting opened by Prayer.— It was carried by vote that the do notify the absent Colrs. councilors forthwith:—
Minutes of the last three Meetings were read.
Upon Motion of Colr. J. Smith it was resolved that the sympathies of this council be tendered to the relatives of deceased who was the Assessor for this
Lewis Robison was appointed Assessor & Collector in the place of deceased.
Colr. J. Smith moved and it was seconded and carried that a Buring Ground be procured, out of the . and purchased at the expence of the .
It was adopted that Colrs & be a Committee to procure a Buring Ground.
Upon Motion of it was seconded & carried that ten acres be the quantity of Land to be procured for the Burying Ground
Colr. J. Smith moved, and it was seconded & carried that the sexton be fined to the extent of the Charter if he refuses to act in his office & that the Marshal give him notice thereof. [p. 18]
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