asked some further instructions relative to the duties of this committee, which was replied to by
The motion to accept this committee was seconded and passed unanimously.
The then asked whether we shall take any further notice of our charter and try to sustain it, or shall we let it go.
A motion was offered to appoint a committee of three to take this matter into consideration and report to the council at the next meeting. Motion was seconded and passed unanimously
The nominated councillors , & for said committee.
Motion offered that the said committee be [p. [75]]
The Nauvoo city charter had been repealed by the Illinois legislature on 29 January 1845. (An Act to Repeal the Act Entitled “An Act to Incorporate the City of Nauvoo,” Approved December 16, 1840 [29 Jan. 1845], Laws of the State of Illinois [1844–1845], pp. 187–188.)
Laws of the State of Illinois, Passed by the Twelfth General Assembly, at Their Session, Began and Held at Springfield, on the Seventh of December, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty. Springfield, IL: William Walters, 1841.