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Pay Order to Nauvoo City Treasurer for Taylor & Woodruff, 1 June 1843
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JS as mayor, Pay Order, to Nauvoo City Treasurer [], for & , , Hancock Co., IL, 1 June 1843; handwriting of ; signature of JS; notations in unidentified handwriting; endorsement in handwriting of ; one page; JS Collection, CHL. Includes seal.
The of the City of , will pay & Nine dollars and seventy five Cents, out of any funds in the City Treasury not otherwise appropriated, said sum having been this day allowed them for printing City script, & for Newspapers furnished the , up to this date. Given <& Certified> at the City of , Ills., & under the Corporation seal of said , this first day of June 1843.—
, Recorder.
[seal]
Joseph Smith
Mayor [p. [1]]
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The firm Taylor & Woodruff presented a claim to the Nauvoo City Council on 1 June 1843, which was allowed and this order written. The transaction was recorded in the Nauvoo City Treasury Ledger on 14 May 1844. (Statement of Account from Taylor & Woodruff, ca. 1 June 1843; Nauvoo City Council Rough Minute Book, Nov. 1842–Jan. 1844, 17; Nauvoo City Treasury Ledger, 14, 107.)
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TEXT: Embossed seal, “CORPORATION SEAL of CITY of NAUVOO 1840”.
Signature of JS.