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Minutes, 8 July 1843, as Recorded in Nauvoo Legion Minute Book

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Nauvoo Legion Court-Martial, 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, 8 July 1843. Version copied [ca. 1844] in Nauvoo Legion Minute Book, pp. 36–65; 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, 20 May–8 July 1843 Minutes, 8 July 1843, as Recorded in Nauvoo Legion Minute Book Nauvoo Legion Minute Book, February 1841–October 1844

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privates two dollars, and for delinquencies at officer drills or any Regimental, Battalion or company parade, or any other muster fixed or ordered agreeably to this act, or for neglect of any orders of a superior officer, they shall be fined in proportion to rank as recited in the foregoing part of this section, in one half the sums aforesaid.
Sec. 29. That fathers shall be bound for the payment of fines incured by their sons under twenty-one years of age, guardians for the payment of fines incured by their wards; and masters for the payment of fines incured by their apprentices; to be charged and collected accordingly.
Sec. 30. That on complaint of a commissioned officer in writting to a superior officer, charging any officer, under the command of such superior, with neglect of any of the duties enjoined on them by this act, of disobedience of orders or of being guilty of any conduct unbecoming an officer or a gentleman, such superior officer shall, if he thinks the complaint sufficient cause for an arrest, cause the officer against whom such complaint <​is​> made, to be arrested by notifying such officer in writing that he is suspended from command untill acquitted from such arrest; stating at the same time, the grounds of such arrest, and the time and place of trial; and the same time notify the officer next in command, that in consequence of such arrest, he is required to do the duties which were enjoined on the officer so arrested; Provided, That when any superior officer shall consider the charges [p. 52]
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Minutes, 8 July 1843, as Recorded in Nauvoo Legion Minute Book
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