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City Charter: Laws, Ordinances, and Acts, July 1842

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The City Charter: Laws, Ordinances, and Acts of the City Council of the City of Nauvoo. And Also, the Ordinances of the Nauvoo Legion: From the Commencement of the City to this Date, [1]–32 pp.; Nauvoo, IL: Nauvoo City Council, 1842. The copy used for transcription is held at CHL; includes archival markings.

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See Historical Introduction to Pay Order to Nauvoo City Treasurer, 12 July 1842.
Asterisk (*) denotes a "featured" version, which includes an introduction and annotation. *Minutes, 3 February 1841, Copy

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the
CITY CHARTER:
LAWS, ORDINANCES, AND ACTS
of the
CITY COUNCIL
of the
CITY OF
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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AND ALSO, THE ORDINANCES
of the
NAUVOO LEGION

A contingent of the Illinois state militia provided for in the Nauvoo city charter. The Nauvoo Legion was organized into two cohorts: one infantry and one cavalry. Each cohort could potentially comprise several thousand men and was overseen by a brigadier...

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from the commencement of the city to this date.
 
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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PUBLISHED BY ORDER OF THE CITY COUNCIL.
JOSEPH SMITH, Printer.
July . . . 1842. [p. [1]]
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City Charter: Laws, Ordinances, and Acts, July 1842
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