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Pay Order, James Sloan to Nauvoo City Treasurer, 11 March 1843
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, Pay Order, to Nauvoo city treasurer [], for “bearer,” , Hancock Co., IL, 11 Mar. 1843; handwriting of ; endorsement in handwriting of ; notation in unidentified handwriting; one page; Nauvoo, IL, Records, 1841–1845, CHL. Includes seal.
I hereby Certify that there has been this day allowed for Stationary for the municipal Election in 1843, seventy five Cents, by the City Council of the City of , which sum the will please pay Bearer.—
Given under my hand, & the Corporation Seal of the City of , Ills, March 11[th] 1843.
[seal]
, City Recorder of the City of , Ills.—
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At their 11 March 1843 meeting, the Nauvoo City Council granted seventy-five cents for stationary for the 8 February 1843 city election and this order was written. This transaction was recorded in the Nauvoo City Treasury Ledger on 15 June 1843. (Nauvoo City Council Rough Minute Book, Nov. 1842–Jan. 1844, 12; Nauvoo City Treasury Ledger, 94.)
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TEXT: Embossed seal, “CORPORATION SEAL of CITY of NAUVOO 1840”.
Notation in unidentified handwriting.