Revised Minutes, circa 17 June 1844, Partial Draft

M Editor —

In your Last weeks paper I proposed giving your reader a acount of the proceedings of the City Councill relative to the “Nauvoo Expositor”, but my time fordids any thing more than a brief, synopsis, of the Municipality of the . —

In connection with other business, as stated in Last weeks paper the Mayor, remarked that he believed it generally the case, that when a man goes to law, he, has an unjust ca[u]se & wants to go before some one who wa[n]ts bisiness, and that he had very few cases on his docked docket— and <​referring to — editor of the Nauvoo Expositor,​> suggested the proprity of first purging the city counicl and referred referring to the character the of the paper & propri[e]tors, called upon— <​(a Mechanic)​> who being sworn— said that, the Laws. ( & ) had braught Bogus Dies to him to fix;

Councillor , enquired what good, Mr & <​his​> brother, & the Higbees & Laws. (proprieters of the “Expositor”) <​& Laws, (proprieter of the Expositor)​> had ever done, had ever ◊◊ done in the,— while his brother Joseph was under arrest, from persecution, the Laws, & would have been rode on a rail, if he had not stepped forward to prevent it on account of their oppressing the poor. [p. 1]