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Nauvoo City Council, Ordinance, , Hancock Co., IL, 8 Feb. 1841. Version published in “An Ordinance in Relation to the City Council,” Times and Seasons, 15 Feb. 1841, 2:322.
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Ordinance, 8 February 1841
Nauvoo City Council Minute Book, 1841–1845
Ordinance, 8 February 1841, as Published in Times and Seasons
City Charter: Laws, Ordinances, and Acts, July 1842
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An Ordinance in relation to the City Council.
Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of , That should any member of the City Council absent himself from, or neglect or refuse to attend, any regular or special meeting of said Council, for more than thirty minutes after the time appointed, or should the Marshal or Recorder be guilty of a like offence, he shall be fined in the sum of two dollars for each offence.
Sec. 2. Should any member of said Council neglect, or refuse, to attend said meetings, forthwith. on a summons from the Mayor, served by the Marshal, or special messenger of said Council, he shall be fined in the sum of twenty-five dollars, for each offence; Provided, that the City Council may on good cause shown, remit any fine herein, or by this ordinance, assessed.
Sec. 3. The above fines to be collected as other debts before the Mayor, at the suit of the City corporation.— This ordinance to take effect, and be in force, from and after its psasage.
Passed, Feb. 8th, A. D. 1841.
, Mayor.
, Recorder. [p. 322]
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