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Power of Attorney, 13 June 1843, Unidentified Scribe Copy–A [Extradition of JS for Treason]
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, Power of Attorney, to , , Cole Co., MO, 13 June 1843; Extradition of JS for Treason (Nauvoo, IL, Municipal Court, 1843); sealed by . Featured version copied [between 23 and 30 June 1843]; unidentified handwriting; notation and docket by , [, between 23 and 30 June 1843]; notation and dockets by , [, Hancock Co., IL], 30 June 1843; three pages; JS Collection, CHL. Includes dockets, notations, and archival marking.
Bifolium measuring 10 × 8¼ inches (25 × 21 cm), ruled with twenty-seven horizontal blue lines. The upper left corner of the recto of the first leaf has the insignia of a paper manufacturer that is now illegible. The top of the recto of the first leaf has the remnants of two red adhesive wafers that attached the power of attorney to the copy of the 17 June 1843 arrest warrant issued by governor . The warrant and power of attorney were included in a packet with JS’s 30 June 1843 petition to the Nauvoo Municipal Court, and the combined packet was folded for filing. At some point in time, the copy of the power of attorney and the copy of the warrant were detached. Later, the two documents were pinned together; the pin or pins were subsequently removed.
Nauvoo Municipal Court clerk added a notation and dockets to the versos of the first and second leaves. The second leaf, which apparently functioned as the outer page of the packet, was also docketed by attorney . The municipal court maintained custody of this copy of the power of attorney until 1845, when the city of was disincorporated. Many if not most of the city records were listed in an inventory that was produced by the Church Historian’s Office (later Church Historical Department) in 1846, when they were packed up along with church records and taken to the Salt Lake Valley. The city records are also listed in inventories of church records created in 1855, 1878, and circa 1904. The document was initialed by Andrew Jenson, who began working in the Church Historian’s Office in 1891 and served as assistant church historian from 1897 to 1941. By 1973 the document had been included in the JS Collection at the Church Historical Department (now CHL). The document’s presumed inclusion with the city records, the Andrew Jenson notation, and the document’s inclusion in the JS Collection indicate continuous institutional custody since the mid-1840s.
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“An Act to Repeal the Nauvoo Charter,” 14th General Assembly, 1844–1845, Senate Bill no. 35 (House Bill no. 42), Illinois General Assembly, Enrolled Acts of the General Assembly, 1818–2012, Illinois State Archives, Springfield.
Illinois General Assembly. Enrolled Acts of the General Assembly, 1818–2012. Illinois State Archives, Springfield.
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“Schedule of Church Records. Nauvoo 1846,” [1], Historian’s Office, Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904, CHL.
Historian’s Office. Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904. CHL. CR 100 130.
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“Inventory. Historian’s Office. 4th April 1855,” [1]–[2]; “Index of Records and Journals in the Historian’s Office 1878,” [11]; “Index to Papers in the Historians Office,” ca. 1904, 7, Historian’s Office, Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904, CHL.
Historian’s Office. Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904. CHL. CR 100 130.
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Jenson, Autobiography, 192, 389; Cannon, Journal, 9 Feb. 1891; Jenson, Journal, 9 Feb. 1891 and 19 Oct. 1897; Bitton and Arrington, Mormons and Their Historians, 47–52.
Jenson, Andrew. Autobiography of Andrew Jenson: Assistant Historian of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. . . . Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1938.
Cannon, George Q. Journals, 1855–1864, 1872–1901. CHL. CR 850 1.
Jenson, Andrew. Journals, 1864–1941. Andrew Jenson, Autobiography and Journals, 1864–1941. CHL.
Bitton, David, and Leonard J. Arrington. Mormons and Their Historians. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1988.
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See the full bibliographic entry for JS Collection, 1827–1844, in the CHL catalog.
Historical Introduction
Historical Introduction
See Historical Introduction to Petition to Nauvoo Municipal Court, 30 June 1843 [Extradition of JS for Treason]; and Introduction to Extradition of JS for Treason.
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Executive Department
City of
Know ye that <I> Govenor of the State of having full trust and confidence in the integrity and abilities of , do hereby constitute and appoint him as the agent of the said State of to proceed to the State of for the purpose of receiving from the proper authorities of that one Joseph Smith Jr charged with treason by him committed against the State of and as having fled from justice to the State of and I do hereby authorize and direct the said to convey the said Joseph Smith Jr from the State of , and deliver him to the custody of the Sheriff of in the State of
Seal
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused to be affixed the Great Seal of the State of . Done at the City of this thirteenth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty three
(signed)
By the Jas L Minor Secretary of State [p. [1]]
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Notation in the handwriting of Shepherd Patrick.
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TEXT: “Seal” enclosed in a hand-drawn representation of a seal.