Minutes, 27 June 1840
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Source Note
Nauvoo high council, Minutes, , Hancock Co., IL, 27 June 1840. Featured version copied [between 14 Feb. 1842 and 1 Jan. 1843] in Nauvoo High Council Minutes, fair copy, pp. 63–64; handwriting of ; CHL. For more complete source information, see the source note for Minutes, 27 Oct. 1839.
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Historical Introduction
On 27 June 1840, , acting on behalf of JS, informed the that JS had vetoed actions the council took in its 20 June 1840 meeting, which JS apparently did not attend. At that meeting, the high council considered a memorial from JS requesting that he be relieved from his duties relating to temporal affairs in Nauvoo, Illinois, especially those involving land sales. Pursuant to JS’s request, the high council appointed as a clerk for the sale of Nauvoo town lots and also directed Ripley to ensure that the temporal needs of JS and his counselors in the were met. Although the high council’s actions seem to meet the requests in JS’s memorial, JS objected to these decisions. Minutes of a subsequent meeting suggest JS may have believed that the high council members had not sufficiently considered the heavy financial responsibility he bore from purchasing land in the Nauvoo area on behalf of the or that they had not addressed pressing questions, such as how much Sherwood should be compensated for his service. JS also may have wanted the high council to specify where funding would come from to support him, his family, and the other members of the First Presidency. Whatever the case, Ripley relayed JS’s veto, and the high council decided to rehear JS’s memorial on 3 July 1840., serving as clerk pro tempore of the high council, took the minutes of the meeting. Stout recorded the minutes into the high council record book sometime after 14 February 1842 and likely before the end of that year.
Footnotes
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Minutes, 20 June 1840; see also Memorial to Nauvoo High Council, 18 June 1840.
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2
When the high council reconsidered the memorial, one of the prominent subjects of discussion was JS’s land debts. The high council also discussed how much Sherwood should be paid. (Minutes, 3 July 1840.)
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At its meeting to reconsider the memorial, the high council specified that bishops would raise the money to provide this support. (Minutes, 3 July 1840.)
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4
See Minutes, 3 July 1840.
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5
Stout indicated that he had recorded minutes of earlier meetings on 14 February 1842. (Nauvoo High Council Minutes, 19 Apr. 1840, 56.)
Nauvoo High Council Minutes, 1839–1845. CHL. LR 3102 22.
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June 27th 1840. The of the of Illinois met in Council at the office of J. Smith jr
1 Resolved That the minutes of the last Council be always read at the beginning of the next, by the Clerk, that the chain of buisness may be more easily come at and error in the Records detected.
2. stated to the— Council [p. 63]
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