Nauvoo City Council, Draft of Preamble and Resolutions, , Hancock Co., IL, 13 Jan. 1845; handwriting of , , and ; docket in handwriting of ; five pages; Nauvoo, IL, Records, 1841–1845, CHL.
<4th> Resolved that in order to bring we are extremly anxious to ferret out and bring to justice all such persons if any there are within the limits of our and for this purpose we have authorised our Mayor to enlarge the police to any number not exceeding five hundred in Number, and we also pledge ourselves to double our deligence and call upon our cetizens to assist in ridding our and country of all such infamous characters [p. [6]]