Memorial to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, circa 16 December 1843–12 February 1844
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, , , , , , , , , , , , , , JS, , and , Memorial, , Hancock Co., IL, to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, , 21 Dec. 1843; handwriting of ; signatures of memorialists; dockets in handwriting of and unidentified scribe; seventeen pages; Record Group 46, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington DC.
Section 27. The City Council shall have power to provide for the punishment of offenders by imprisonment in the County or City Jail, in all cases when such offenders shall fail or refuse to pay the fines and forfeitures which may be recovered against them.
Section 28. This act is hereby declared to be a public act, and shall take effect on the first Monday of February next
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Speaker of the House of Representatives.
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Speaker of the Senate.
Approved, December 16. 1840.
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State of .)
Office of Secretary of State.)
I, , Secretary of State, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and perfect copy of the enrolled law now on file in my office.
Witness my hand, and seal of State, at , this 18th. day of December, A. D. 1840.
L. S.
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Secretary of State
By the 2nd. Section of an act passed January 27. 1841 it is thus enacted. “Sec 2. Any Citizen of , may, by voluntary enrollment, attach himself to the Nauvoo Legion, with all the privileges which appertain to that Independent Military Body” [p. [15]]