Bill to Incorporate the City of Nauvoo, between 4 October and 12 December 1840
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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.
of said guards, and to constitute the law making department with full power and authority to make, ordain, establish, and execute, all such laws and ordinances as may be considered necessary for the benefit, government, and regulation, of said guards; Provided, That the officers of the guards shall be commissioned by the Governor, and said guards shall perform the same amount of military duty as is or may be required of the regular militia of the , and shall be at the disposal of the Mayor in executing the laws and ordinances of the city corporation, or th[e] laws of th[e] , and at the disposal of the Governor for the public defence, and the execution of the laws of the or of the , and shall be entitled to their proportion of the public arms; Provided, also, that said guards shall be exempt from all other military duty.
Sec. 15. That the city corporation shall be allowed the use of the county jail of the county of , for the confinement of all such persons as may be liable to imprisonment under the laws and ordinances of the [p. 12]