Footnotes
The Nauvoo City Council had been meeting at Hyrum Smith’s office in Nauvoo since 23 October 1841. (See Nauvoo City Council Minute Book, 16 and 23 Oct. 1841, 23–24.)
See Nauvoo City Council Rough Minute Book, 13 Nov. 1841, 39–40. It is possible that this official ledger book is one of the “books of record” that Sloan in an earlier meeting had requested the city council purchase. At the 13 November meeting, described in the minutes featured here, the council agreed to provide record books and other clerical supplies to Sloan. (Nauvoo City Council Minute Book, 6 Nov. 1841, 28–29; Hyrum Smith and John P. Greene, Committee Report, Nauvoo, IL, [between 6 and 13 Nov. 1841], Nauvoo, IL, Records, CHL.)
When the previous council meeting—held on 6 November 1841 in Hyrum Smith’s office—adjourned, the council agreed to meet again at “6 oclock P.M. on Saturday next, at same place.” (Nauvoo City Council Minute Book, 6 Nov. 1841, 29.)
At the 6 November 1841 city council meeting, Wilford Woodruff was sworn in as a city councilor; the council also discussed various petitions and adopted three resolutions relative to meetings and taxes. (Nauvoo City Council Minute Book, 6 Nov. 1841, 28–29; Woodruff, Journal, 6 Nov. 1841.)
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.
On 1 November 1841, William Law was unanimously appointed to the city council “in the stead of Sidney Rigdon,” who was appointed city attorney at that same meeting. (Nauvoo City Council Minute Book, 1 Nov. 1841, 28.)