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Minutes, 8 July 1843, as Recorded in Nauvoo Legion Minute Book

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Nauvoo Legion Court-Martial, Minutes,
Nauvoo

Principal gathering place for Saints following expulsion from Missouri. Beginning in 1839, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints purchased lands in earlier settlement of Commerce and planned settlement of Commerce City, as well as surrounding areas....

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, Hancock Co., IL, 8 July 1843. Version copied [ca. 1844] in Nauvoo Legion Minute Book, pp. 36–65; handwriting of
Hosea Stout

18 Sept. 1810–2 Mar. 1889. Farmer, teacher, carpenter, sawmill operator, lawyer. Born near Pleasant Hill, Mercer Co., Kentucky. Son of Joseph Stout and Anna Smith. Moved to Union Township, Clinton Co., Ohio, 1819; to Wilmington, Clinton Co., fall 1824; to...

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; Nauvoo Legion Records, CHL. For more complete source information, see the source note to Nauvoo Legion Minute Book, Feb. 1841–Oct. 1844.
Asterisk (*) denotes a "featured" version, which includes an introduction and annotation. Minutes, 20 May–8 July 1843 Minutes, 8 July 1843, as Recorded in Nauvoo Legion Minute Book Nauvoo Legion Minute Book, February 1841–October 1844

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shall receive, annually, from the treasurey of the
Legion

A contingent of the Illinois state militia provided for in the Nauvoo city charter. The Nauvoo Legion was organized into two cohorts: one infantry and one cavalry. Each cohort could potentially comprise several thousand men and was overseen by a brigadier...

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, two dollars for each company in their respective Regiments or Battalion, on condition of the faithful performance of their duty, on the certificate of their Colonel, or Major and that the record Books of the Adjutants shall be open to the inspection of their respective field and general officers
Sec. 39. That the Adjutant General or Division Inspector shall be allowed thirty dollars and the Chief Musician ten dollars, annually, in consideration of the faithful performance of their respective duties, on the certificate of the Major General.
Sec. 40. That the officers, composing the courts of inquiry and assessment of fines, shall be allowed for their services, one dollar each per day to be certified by the presiding officer of the board.
Sec. 41. That all disbursments made pursuant to this act shall be paid out of any money in the treasurey not otherwise appropriated.
Sec. 42. That the Major General may issue bills of credit to the amount of five hundred dollars, to be signed by himself or the Lieutenant General or both at their discretion, and countersigned by the Paymaster General of the Legion, and redeemable out of any money in the treasurey not other wise appropriated.
Sec. 43. That the collector of fines be required to give bonds to the pay master General of the Legion, to the amount of five hundred dollars, with approved security within ten days from the passage of this act.
Sec. 44. That there shall be a General Court Martial, of the Nauvoo Legion, held on the third Saturday in October, annually, to continue in session, by adjournments, untill all buisness before it shall be finished, at such time and place as the Lieutenant and Major Generals may appoint.
Sec. 45. That the Lieutenant and Major Generals may have power to call a special session of the General Court Martial of the Nauvoo Legion, and also, to order out the Legion at any time when they may deem [p. 57]
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Minutes, 8 July 1843, as Recorded in Nauvoo Legion Minute Book
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