Nauvoo City Council, Ordinance, , Hancock Co., IL, 31 Oct. 1842; handwriting of ; docket in handwriting of ; fourteen pages; Nauvoo, IL, Records, 1841–1845, CHL.
thereon and unpaid for the year herein set forth. Therefore it is considered by the Court that Judgment be and is hereby entered against the aforesaid tract or tracts of Land, or City Lots, or parts thereof (as the case may be) in the name of the City of for the sum annexed to each tract of Land or City Lot, being the amount of Taxes and Costs due severally thereon; and it is ordered by the Court that the several tracts of Land, or City Lots, or so much thereof as shall be sufficient of each of them, to satisfy the amount of taxes and Costs annexed to them severally, be sold as the Law directs.
Sec. 24. It shall be the duty of the Clerk within five days after the adjournment of said Court to make out under the seal of said Court a copy of the assessors and collectors report together with the order of the Court thereon, which shall constitute the process on which all Lands and City Lots shall be sold for taxes, and deliver the same to the City Marshal, and the Marshal thereupon shall cause the said Lands to be sold on the day specified in the notice given by the Assessors and Collectors, and make return thereof to the Clerk aforesaid within ten days after the day of Sale.
Sec. 25. Any Person or Persons owning or claiming Lands advertised for Sale as aforesaid may pay the taxes and cost due thereon, to the assessor and Collector at any time before Judgment be pronounced against said Lands or City Lots, or to the Clerk at any time before the report of the Assessor and Collector shall be delivered to the Marshal, and to the Marshal at any time before the sale of the same.
Sec. 26. The Clerk of the Municipal Court shall attend all Sales of Lands or City Lots, made by the Marshal, under the provisions of this Ordinance, and shall keep a Register of the Sales in a Book to be provided for that purpose, in which he shall enter each Lot or parcel of Land exposed to sale by the Marshal, copying the description of [p. 10]