Footnotes
When the high council reconsidered the memorial, one of the prominent subjects of discussion was JS’s land debts. The high council also discussed how much Sherwood should be paid. (Minutes, 3 July 1840.)
At its meeting to reconsider the memorial, the high council specified that bishops would raise the money to provide this support. (Minutes, 3 July 1840.)
See Minutes, 3 July 1840.
Stout indicated that he had recorded minutes of earlier meetings on 14 February 1842. (Nauvoo High Council Minutes, 19 Apr. 1840, 56.)
Nauvoo High Council Minutes, 1839–1845. CHL. LR 3102 22.
This recommendation complied with proper parliamentary procedure at the time, as practiced by the United States Senate and House of Representatives. The first rule of both houses of Congress was that the previous day’s journal should be read at the beginning of each meeting so that corrections could be made. (Manual of Parliamentary Practice, 149, 162.)
A Manual of Parliamentary Practice, Composed Originally for the Use of the Senate of the United States by Thomas Jefferson . . . to Which Are Added the Rules and Orders of Both Houses of Congress. Philadelphia: Hogan and Thompson, 1834.