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Pay Order to Nauvoo City Treasurer for Henry G. Sherwood, 31 October 1842
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JS as mayor, Pay Order, to Nauvoo city treasurer [], for , , Hancock Co., IL, 31 Oct. 1842; handwriting of ; signature of JS; docket in handwriting of ; one page; JS Collection, CHL.
The of the City of , will pay the City Marshal, Fifteen Dollars, which Sum was this day granted to him, to apply towards his services as the City Marshal.
Joseph Smith Mayor
Novr. 2nd. Octr. 31th. 1842.
, Recorder;
Seal
Oct. 31st.. [p. [1]]
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Sherwood presented a claim to the Nauvoo City Council on 31 October 1842, which was allowed and this order written. The transaction was recorded in the Nauvoo City Treasury Ledger on 3 November 1842. (Claim from Henry G. Sherwood, 31 Oct. 1842; Nauvoo City Council Rough Minute Book, Jan.–Nov. 1842, 44; Nauvoo City Treasury Ledger, 2, 70.)
Nauvoo City Treasury Ledger, 1842–1845. Nauvoo, IL, Records, 1841–1845. CHL. MS 16800.
Signature of JS.
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TEXT: “Seal” enclosed in a hand-drawn representation of a seal.