Pay Order to Nauvoo City Treasurer for James Sloan, 7 June 1843

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Pay Order to Nauvoo City Treasurer for James Sloan, 7 June 1843
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JS as mayor, Pay Order, to Nauvoo city treasurer [
William Clayton
17 July 1814–4 Dec. 1879. Bookkeeper, clerk. Born at Charnock Moss, Penwortham, Lancashire, England. Son of Thomas Clayton and Ann Critchley. Married Ruth Moon, 9 Oct. 1836, at Penwortham. Baptized into Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by Heber...
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James Sloan
28 Oct. 1792–24 Oct. 1886. City recorder, notary public, attorney, judge, farmer. Born in Donaghmore, Co. Tyrone, Ireland. Son of Alexander Sloan and Anne. Married Mary Magill. Baptized into Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Ordained an elder, ...
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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, 7 June 1843; handwriting of
James Sloan
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; signature of JS; endorsement in handwriting of
William Clayton
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The
City Treasurer
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of the City of
Nauvoo
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will pay
James Sloan
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An entry was made in the Nauvoo City Council Rough Minute book on 7 June 1843 that the mayor signed this order for Sloan for the balance due him on his salary for 1842. This transaction was recorded in the Nauvoo City Treasury Ledger on 9 June 1843. (Nauvoo City Council Rough Minute Book, Nov. 1842–Jan. 1844, 18; Nauvoo City Treasury Ledger, 52.)
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Nauvoo City Treasury Ledger, 1842–1845. Nauvoo, IL, Records, 1841–1845. CHL. MS 16800.
City Recorder of said
City
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, out of the funds in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, Twenty three dollars and fifty cents, being the balance now due him of his Salary of One hundred dollars as such Recorder, for the year 1842, after deducting fifty dollars for which he received an Order upon the 12th. day of July 1842, and twenty six dollars & fifty Cents by an Order dated Jany. 14th. 1843.—
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There is not an extant order for James Sloan for $26.50, and nothing was recorded in the Nauvoo City Treasury Ledger. There is an order to Sloan dated 30 January 1843 for 34.50 that was recorded in the ledger. Possibly the 14 Jan. 1843 order was folded into this larger order. (Pay Order to Nauvoo City Treasurer for James Sloan, 30 Jan. 1843; Nauvoo City Treasury Ledger, 52.)
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Given <& Certified> under my hand, and the Seal of the Corporation of the City of
Nauvoo
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, at Ills., at said
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, this 7th. day of June 1843.—

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TEXT: Embossed seal, “CORPORATION SEAL of CITY of NAUVOO 1840”.

Signature of JS.
Joseph Smith Mayor [p. [1]]
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An entry was made in the Nauvoo City Council Rough Minute book on 7 June 1843 that the mayor signed this order for Sloan for the balance due him on his salary for 1842. This transaction was recorded in the Nauvoo City Treasury Ledger on 9 June 1843. (Nauvoo City Council Rough Minute Book, Nov. 1842–Jan. 1844, 18; Nauvoo City Treasury Ledger, 52.)
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There is not an extant order for James Sloan for $26.50, and nothing was recorded in the Nauvoo City Treasury Ledger. There is an order to Sloan dated 30 January 1843 for 34.50 that was recorded in the ledger. Possibly the 14 Jan. 1843 order was folded into this larger order. (Pay Order to Nauvoo City Treasurer for James Sloan, 30 Jan. 1843; Nauvoo City Treasury Ledger, 52.)
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TEXT: Embossed seal, “CORPORATION SEAL of CITY of NAUVOO 1840”.
Signature of JS.