City Charter: Laws, Ordinances, and Acts, July 1842
Source Note
The City Charter: Laws, Ordinances, and Acts of the City Council of the City of Nauvoo. And Also, the Ordinances of the Nauvoo Legion: From the Commencement of the City to this Date, [1]–32 pp.; Nauvoo, IL: Nauvoo City Council, 1842. The copy used for transcription is held at CHL; includes archival markings.
Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of , That no tract of land, within the limits of this , shall hereafter be surveyed, plotted and laid out into city lots, unless the same be surveyed, and plotted so as to correspond with the original survey and plot of the city of —and any survey, or plot made in violation of this ordinance shall be null and void.
Sec. 2. This ordinance to take effect, and be in force, from and after its passage.
Passed, March 1, 1841.
, Mayor.
, Recorder.
AN ORDINANCE IN RELATION TO PUBLIC MEETINGS.
Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of , That, in order to guarantee the ‘constitutional right of free discussion upon all subjects, the citizens of this may, from time to time, peaceably assemble themselves together for all peaceable, or lawful purposes, whatever; and should any person be guilty of disturbing, or interrupting, any such meeting, or assemblage, he shall on conviction thereof before the Mayor, or Municipal Court, be considered a disturber of the public peace, and fined in any sum not exceeding five hundred dollars, or imprisoned not exceeding six months, or both, at the discretion of said mayor, or court.
Sec. 2. Should any person be guilty of exciting the people to riot, or rebellion, or of participating in a mob, or any other unlawful, riotous, or tumultuous assemblage of the people, or of refusing to obey any civil officer executing the ordinances of the , or the general laws of the or , or of neglecting or refusing to obey, promptly, any military order for the due of said laws, or ordinances, he shall, on conviction thereof as aforesaid, be fined, or imprisoned, or both, as aforesaid.
Sec. 3. This ordinance to take effect, and be in force, from and after its passage. Passed, March 1, 1841.
, Mayor.
, Recorder.
AN ORDINANCE IN RELATION TO RELIGIOUS SOCIETIES.
Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the City Council of the city of , That the Catholics, Presbyterians, Methodists, Baptists, Latter-Day-Saints, Quakers, Episcopalians, Universalists, Unitarians, Mohammedans, and all other religious sects, and denominations, whatever, shall have free toleration, and equal privileges, in this , and should any person be guilty of ridiculing, abusing, or otherwise depreciating, another, in consequence of his religion, or of disturbing, or interrupiing, any religious meeting, within the limits of [p. 16]