JS as Mayor and Justice of the Peace, Summons, to City Marshal [], for , , Hancock Co., IL, 1 Sept. 1842, Copeland v. A. Brown (Nauvoo, IL, Mayor’s Court 1842); handwriting of ; certified by JS, 1 Sept. 1842; docket and notation by , [, Hancock Co., IL], [1 Sept. 1842]; notation by , 2 Sept. 1842; two pages; Nauvoo, IL, Records, CHL. Includes seal.
The People of the State of , to the City of the City of ,
Greeting. You are hereby Commanded to Summon to appear before me at my in said at ten oClock A. M. on <Monday> the fifth day of September Instant, to answer the Complaint of Asa Copeland for a failure to pay him a certain demand not exceeding One hundred Dollars; and thereof make due return as the law directs. Given under my hand and Seal, this first day of september 1842.
Joseph Smith, Mayor, and a Justice of Peace in and for said .—