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Ordinance, 30 January 1843

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Nauvoo City Council, Ordinance,
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, 30 Jan. 1843. Version copied [ca. 30 Jan. 1843] in Nauvoo City Council Minute Book, pp. 149–151; handwriting of
James Sloan

28 Oct. 1792–24 Oct. 1886. City recorder, notary public, attorney, judge, farmer. Born in Donaghmore, Co. Tyrone, Ireland. Son of Alexander Sloan and Anne. Married Mary Magill. Baptized into Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Ordained an elder, ...

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Asterisk (*) denotes a "featured" version, which includes an introduction and annotation. Ordinance, 30 January 1843 Nauvoo City Council Minute Book, 1841–1845 Ordinance, 30 January 1843, as Published in the Wasp

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raised up, and rounded upon the top, and the Sexton shall receive the sum of two dollars for digging the grave and interring the Body of every Person, and shall keep a regular Record thereof in a Book set apart for that purpose, as hereinafter set forth.
Sec. 2. Any Person who has not procured a lot or place in the
City

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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burying ground, and who wishes to dig a grave, and inter therein without the assistance of the Sexton, shall call upon the Sexton, whose duty it shall be to point out the place where such interment shall be made, for which he shall receive the sum of twenty five Cents.
Sec. 3. Any person having a lot or place in the
City

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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burying Ground may inter their dead without the assistance of the Sexton, and they are hereby reequired to make a due return to the Sexton of each case of interment so made, within three days thereafter.
Sec. 4. The City sexton shall keep a Book of Record in which he shall Record the names and ages of all Persons deceased, coming to his knowledge, & the nature of the diseases of which they died, & to enable him the better so to do, he is to procure such information as he may require from, the Persons referred to in Section two (2.) of this Ordinance, & he shall also make a weekly report for publication, to the Editor, of some Newspaper, published in this
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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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Sec. 5. Should the City Sexton be unable to procure his pay from the relatives or assetts of the deceased, or from the Overseers of the Poor, upon substantiating these facts to the satisfaction of the City Council, he shall receive pay therefor out of the City Treasury.
Sec. 6. Any person acting in violation of this Ordinance, respecting the manner and Order of interments, shall be fined in any sum not exceeding fifty dollars, to be recovered before the Mayor or Aldermen of this
City

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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, at their discretion.
Sec. 7. [p. 150]
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