Revised Laws of the Nauvoo Legion, circa 8 July 1843, Copy
Source Note
Revised Laws of the Nauvoo Legion, [, Hancock Co., IL], ca. 8 July 1843. Version copied [ca. 13 Jan. 1844]; handwriting of ; eighteen pages; Nauvoo Legion Records, CHL.
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kept for that purpose, in which shall be recorded the testimony given by or in behalf of the person so applying, and any officer who shall wilfully remit any fine except as above provided, shall be cashiered by the decision of a Court martial detailed by the officer having proper jurisdiction.
Sec. 28. That the presiding officer of each board shall cause the secretary of the same, to keep a record of the proceedings of the Court, in a book kept for that purpose and make out therefrom a certified list of the names of the persons fined with the fine or fines annexed to each name, upon which list it shall be the duty of the presiding officer to issue, and furnish to the Collector, the following warrant within thirty days from the court of assessment, which shall be his authority for collecting and paying over the same, to wit:
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To A. B. Collector for the , Greeting
In the name of the people of the State of , you are hereby required and commanded to collect from each person named in the foregoing list, the several sums of money set opposite their names, and within ninety days after recieving this warrant, to pay over to the Paymaster of the Legion (or Regiment as the case may be,) the amount so collected, and take his reciept for the same, and if any one or more of said persons shall neglect or refuse to pay the same, you are hereby further commanded to levy on the personal goods and chattels of each delinquent and make sale thereof according to the law regulating the collection of debst of a similar amount by in this .
Given under my hand, this [blank] day of [blank] 18[blank].
C. D. Majr Genl or Col (as the case may be,) and president of the Court.
And the collector, or any person authorized to collect fines under the provisions of this act, who shall neglect or refuse to pay over the amount so collected, as required by the foregoing warrant, after deducting twenty per cent, which shall be his fees for collection. It shall be the duty of the Paymaster to whom the returns were to be made, to proceed against such collector, as aforsaid, or his securities, before any justice of the peace of said or any court having proper jurisdiction; and the said Collector or his securities shall only be exhonerated from the payment of the amount of such fines, by showing to the satisfaction of said justice or court, as aforsaid, that there was no property whereon to levy, of which such fine or fines could be made, or that the fine or fines had been remited by the prsident of the court issueing the same in conformity to the provisions of this act [p. 9]