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Minutes, 15 October 1842, as Recorded in Nauvoo Legion Minute Book

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Nauvoo Legion, Minutes,
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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, Hancock Co., IL, 15 Oct. 1842. Version copied [ca. 1844] in Nauvoo Legion Minute Book, pp. 29–32; handwriting of
Hosea Stout

18 Sept. 1810–2 Mar. 1889. Farmer, teacher, carpenter, sawmill operator, lawyer. Born near Pleasant Hill, Mercer Co., Kentucky. Son of Joseph Stout and Anna Smith. Moved to Union Township, Clinton Co., Ohio, 1819; to Wilmington, Clinton Co., fall 1824; to...

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; Nauvoo Legion Records, CHL. For more complete source information, see the source note to Nauvoo Legion Minute Book, Feb. 1841–Oct. 1844.
Asterisk (*) denotes a "featured" version, which includes an introduction and annotation. Minutes, 15 October 1842 Minutes, 15 October 1842, as Recorded in Nauvoo Legion Minute Book Nauvoo Legion Minute Book, February 1841–October 1844

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under the Title of Ordinance No. 4.
Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the Court Martial of the Nauvoo Legion in General Court Assembled, that any private or noncommissioned officer residing without the City Corporation, may leave the Company to which he belongs, at any time, whenever he shall produce satisfactory evidence that he has enrolled himself in the millitia company in the precinct in which he resides.
Sec. 2. Each Regimental or Battalion Adjutant shall receive annually from the treasury of the Legion, two dollars for each company in his respective Regiment or Battallion, provided he shall keep a correct <​record​> of all the Regimental or Battalion Orders, revise semiannually in the months of April, before the Cohort drill, and in the month of September before the Legion drill, the roll of commissioned and non-commissioned officers, and make return thereof to the respective Brigadier Generals; also attend all company elections and keep the record thereof furnish blank returns for each commandant of companies, for Company, Battalion, Regimental, Cohort, and Legion parades, and deliver them to said commandants before said days of parade.
Sec. 3 The Record Book of said Adjutants shall be open to the inspection of the field and general officers. [p. 30]
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