The materials facts to be noticed are, that a newspaper called “the Nauvoo Expositor,” was established in , that this Newspaper was deemed offensive to the people of that That the common council without notice or process to the owners, entered into a trial and heard statements not under oath, & evidence which was under oath <​in relation to the character of that paper &​> in relation to the character conduct and designs of the owners & Editors of the press; that upon hearing such statements and evidence the common council passed an ordinance or resolution, declaring said press and paper to be a public nuisance; and ordered the same to be as such; that a writ was issued by the Mayor to the of the for that purpose; that a military order was issued at the same time, by the Mayor, who is also Lieutenant General of the , to the in command of that Legion, for a force sufficient to ensure the excution of the writ aforesaid.

It appears, also the press was destroyed in obedience to the foregoing ordinance and writ according to a return on the same by the in the following words; “The within press & type is destroyed & pied according to order on this 10th. day of June 1844 at about 6 oclock P. M. C. M.

It appears also that the owners of the press obtained from a at [p. 2]