Recognizance, 19 December 1842 [City of Nauvoo v. Clements and N. Tanner]
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JS as Mayor, Recognizance, for and Nathan Tanner, , Hancock Co., IL, 19 Dec. 1842, City of Nauvoo v. Clements and N. Tanner (Nauvoo, IL, Mayor’s Court 1842); handwriting of ; signatures of and Nathan Tanner; certified by JS, 19 Dec. 1842; docket by , [, Hancock Co., IL], [19 Dec. 1842]; two pages; Nauvoo, IL, Records, CHL. Includes seals.
Be it Remembered that on the nineteenth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty two and Nathan Tener [Tanner] personally appeared before me Joseph Smith, Mayor, and one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the City of , and jointly and severally acknowledged themselves to owe the People of the State of the sum of Fifty Dollars, to be levied of their goods and Chattels, Lands and Tenements, if default be made in the Condition following, to wit:
The Condition of this Recognizance is such, that if the above bound , (who hath been this day convicted of a breach of a City Ordinance, entitled “an Ordinance Concerning Vagrants and disorderly Persons”,) shall be of the peace and good behaviour towards the Citizens of the generally, and especially towards , for the space of Six Months from the date hereof, then this Recognizance shall be Void; otherwise to be and remain in full force and Virtue in Law.—
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Nathan Tanner Seal
Taken and acknowledged before me, on the day and year first above Written.—