Bill to Incorporate the City of Nauvoo, between 4 October and 12 December 1840
Source Note
Bill to Incorporate and Establish the City of Nauvoo, [, Sangamon Co., IL], between 4 Oct. and 12 Dec. 1840; handwriting of ; twelve pages; Newel K. Whitney, Papers, BYU.
nuisances and obstructions from the streets, roads, lanes, alleys, and commons within the same, and in all respects regulate all commons or public grounds; provide for the due execution thereof; and to do all other things which a corporation of a similar nature can do to secure the peace, benefit, health, happiness, and good order of the inhabitants of said .
Sec. 13. That the City Council shall have jurisdiction over all licenced establishments within the corporation, to grant or refuse licences to ferries, stores, groceries, public exhibitions, and the like, for the sole use and benefit of the — all public houses and establishments of every description to be comprehended within the above enumeration.
Sec. 14. That the City Council may organize the inhabitants of the corporation into a body of independent military men, to be called the “Nauvoo City Guards,” which body shall thereafter be a body corporate and politic, with perpetual succession, with all and singular the plenary powers of a corporation— the Court Martial to be composed of the commissioned officers [p. 11]