Minutes, 1 March 1841, Copy
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Source Note
Nauvoo City Council, Minutes, , Hancock Co., IL, 1 Mar. 1841. Featured version copied [ca. 1 Mar. 1841] in Nauvoo City Council Minute Book, pp. 11–15; 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 March 1841 the , Illinois, city council met for the fifth time since the council was created. As with previous meetings, the council met at ’s house. In all city council meetings to date, JS had played an active role as a city councilor. This 1 March meeting was no different, and these minutes are presented to provide an example of JS’s participation on the council. JS offered one resolution, made two motions respecting city appointments, and presented six city ordinances, all of which passed. Two of the ordinances JS introduced placed particular emphasis on protecting liberties and constitutional rights for people in Nauvoo, something JS and his coreligionists found lacking in . The passage of these ordinances highlights the commitment of the city council to guarantee civil, political, and religious liberty to all in Nauvoo.recorded the minutes of the 1 March 1841 city council meeting in a notebook. Those original minutes were then used by Sloan to record the official minutes in the city council’s ledger. The official minutes are featured here.
Footnotes
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1
See, for example, Minutes, 3 Feb. 1841.
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2
For more on the Latter-day Saint experience in Missouri, see “Joseph Smith Documents from February 1838 through August 1839.”
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Monday March 1st. 1841.
City Council met pursuant to adjournment.— Meeting opened by Prayer.— Minutes of last Meeting read.
Colr. Councilor J. Smith moved an ordinance respecting roads & Town Plots, which went through the usual readings (the rules being dispensed with) and passed as follows.
An ordinance in relation to Roads and Town Plots.
Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of , That all state and County roads within the limits of this , excepting where they occupy the same ground as the City streets; and the original surveys and plots of the old Town of and ; be, and the same hereby are, vacated.
Sec. 2. This Ordinance to take effect, and be in force, from and after its passage.— passed March 1st. 1841.—
, Mayor.
Recorder.
Colr. J. Smith moved an Ordinance respecting the surveying of any addition to the City Plot, which went through the usual readings (the Rules being dispensed with) and passed as follows.— An Ordinance in relation to the City Plot.
Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of , That no tract of Land within the Limits of this , shall hereafter by surveyed, plotted and laid out into city Lots, unless, the same be surveyed, and plotted, so as to correspond with the Original survey and plot, of the City of .— and any survey or plot, made in violation of this ordinance shall be null & void.
Sec. 2. This ordinance to take effect, and be in force from and after its passage.
Passed March 1st. 1841.
, Mayor.
Recorder. [p. 11]
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