Show glit A secured e cured I 1 I 1 HI HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH I 1 L ary 1 1841 8 41 AN ACT TO incorporate T THE HE NAUVOO BOUSE association sec I 1 be it I 1 li by he people of the state 0 of f ilinets Ilin i t i i the general beneral assembly that george georg r 6 eg efer I 1 wisht wight john snider and declared a body r corporate orp orate under the name and style of tho thai nauvoo nancoo house and authorized authorised to etrest wid harnash a th eyare h e reby bare calet called d the of to bo be house abl i q 38 I 1 fa nauvoo horise se bec a w 2 the ile above named nar nod Q ceorge miller lyman ru n wight john snider and peter fiwel haws are heie beneby a Y declared to be the trusi trustees 66 a of said association with full power and authority to td hold in 1 joint tenancy by I 1 ind and successors in office offic acar a certain tata tot A alu W the city of kauv oo 00 in the county I 1 of hancock and a tata of Il lingis I 1 known and designated ou an the plot of said city aj as i the south half of lot numbered fifty six for the purpose thereon the house contemplated in the first section of this act see sec 3 the said trustees arle are further authorized ind and a empo empowered mired to obtain by stock subscription by themO themselves or their duly authorized agents the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars which shall be divided inte into s shares hares of fifty dollars each I sec 1 4 coln ho individual lyla 1 ual shall be permitted to hold more thyri three i hundred nor wo less than one ona share of stock and certificates of stock shall be delivered to subscribers so soon soon as their subscriptions are paid aid in md and not jot before I 1 see sec 5 As soon as the contemplated house us shall have been completed and furnished tile the stockholders stock holders shall appoint suA suc h agents as the trustees trustees mity may deem necessary in the management of the association see sec 6 the trustees shall have power poet to sue aue and rid be sued plead and be pleaded impleaded im in any court of f this thia state in the name arid and style of the 11 trust trus t I 1 ol of the nauvoo house association see sec 7 they shall also take the general care a and lid supervision in procuring materials for said i house and constructing and erecting the same and further to superintend its general management and to do arid and perform all matters and thin things gs which may be necessary to be done in order to secure the ibe interests and promote the objects aff this association I 1 bec 0 l ahls association continue twenty years from the passage of this act and the hou house a a herein pr provided ovideA for shall be kept for the achong accommodation mo dation n of strangers travellers trav ellers and all other persons who may resort thereto for rest aud and refreshment see sec 9 it ta moreover established as aa a perpetual rule of said house to be observed by all persons persona who may keep or occupy the same that spirituous liquors of every description ich are prohibited hibi ted and that such liquor shall never dever be ba vended bended as a beverage or introduced into common use in said hoise I 1 see sac 10 and whereas joseph smith has furnished the said association with the ground where on to erect said house it is further deCIa declined Ted that the said smith and his heirs shall hold by perpetual succession a suit of rooms in the said house to be set apart and conveyed in due form of law to hirn him awl anil liis his heirs by the said trustees as soon us as the same are completed sec 11 the board of trustees shall appoint one of their number as president thereof approved february 23 1841 1 I 1 tuo THO 1 W L D EWING speaker of the house of depre representatives S SH 11 ANDERSON speaker of the denute satt sante of Il linol office of see sec of state slater aas 1 stephen stepha ti A douglas secretary 0 of f state do hereby certify lie he foregoing to lie he a true and perfect copy of law on oil file in my office witness my hand hadd and sal of state springfield feb 24 A AD D 1841 S A DOUGLAS L S q I 1 secretary of state late AN ACT to ancor incorporate iwate the nauvoo A agricultural and manufacturing association in the ike cou county v of q han afe ir roe elle people of of the a state tto T illinois represented in ill the general assembly a ib 1 that lint sidney rigdon george W robinson james wilson law daniel H wells hyrum smith GPO geo miller william marks peter haws y nison son knight john scott dou don carlos S nith W william lilliarn huntingdon Hunt Runt ingon sen elie nezer Rob robinson insop robert B thompson william law james jamea allred john T arti bunett diett theodore turley john C bennett eti eli s higbee isaac higbe jos joseph e ph tn alpheus cutler israel barlow R RD D foster te r john 0 h 11 F oney olney snider Leo leonard narl soby roby orson james kelly sidney sidnay A knowlton Know llon jolin john P greene john F weld and their associates and successors tire aro ho haaby oby constituted a 11 body corporate and politic boldic by th the hume of t the 11 e na nauvoo agricultural and manufacturing association and by that namo darn shall be capable of suing and being sued saied plead pleading g and being im pleaded all answering and being answered in all courts and pl places abetz and may have a common seal and may alter the sime at pleasure see rw 2 the sole arid and purpose of said fis association shall be ba for the tillon or of agrical i tore dire and husbandry in ill all its branches and for the manufacture of flour lumber and such other useful articles as are necessary for ilia or ordinary purposes of lifo life sec 3 J tho the capital stock of said association shall be ba one hundred thousand dollars with the privilege of iner increasing easing it to the sum of three hundred tho thousand id doll us irs to be divided it into ito shares of fifty collais dolla dol lais ip which shall ba considered personal property properly and ba aisig assignable mable in hi such manner its as thestil the stid s iid corporation may by its bylaws by laws provide which capital stock shell shall ile be exclusively devoted to the oha object e ct and purposes set forth in tile the second section of th s act and to no other object and purposes and to the sume same end the said corporation shall have power to purchase hold and convey real estifo and other property to the am amunt apt of its it capital see sec 4 said corporation shall have power by its trustee or a majority of them present at any regularly culled called rn meeting to mike e bt br laws for its own government for the purpose of carrying out I 1 the ilie object this association provided the sume same afe anre not repugnant to the laws and constitution 0 of f this state or of the united st states ates sc S c 5 joseph smith sinith sidney rigdon and wiliam liw L iw shut be com commissioners to receive cAutions for and said kid capital stock subs sal said com commissioners or a mr majority maio rity 0 of f them shall within six mouths months after of this not act either by thetis ahe elv s or tho the pa passage I 1 their duly ap appointed pet anted agents open apen a subscription book far sau sall i tock at s such ch times and places as they shall appoint and at the lime of subscription for such stock at least taji per cent upon each ithac subscribed for shall be paid to ii aid corn 0 m miss or the r duly appointed age ta 0 and I 1 tha s shall bs be paid pal 1 l ill such stich sums and at such times as 09 shall ile ba provided for by th the a bylaws by laws of said corporation po see sec ration 6 it in case tho toek stock of said c corporation I 1 shall not nil all bo be taken up within one oils year from tile the of tilis his act the duties of said cominess commis com iniss ff oner passage ers shall depase and the trustees of said corporation or a quorum the thereof leof may thereafter receive subscriptions to said stock from tim time a to time U until iltis see sec 7 the stock property and concerns of oe said corporation shall be managed by twenty trustees who shall be a stockholders stock tock holders of offard aid corpo i ration ra tiou any five fie of whom to bo designated by a majority t of the trustees shall form conn a quorum for the transaction of a all I 1 ordinary bu business allies i 9 c of f sail a 1 I 1 corporation the iho election of which trustees anti annual ual the first mentioned twenty persons are recited in the first section of this w whose hose names no act t shall bo be the first trustees of said 1 c carpon corporation at a tion 1 and shall hold in september AD 1841 and until others shall be elected in j their heir places see sec 8 the trustees of said cor corporal corp oraton on for I 1 every subsequent year shall be elected on the first monday of september I 1 in 11 C each a ell arid and every year at such place as the trustees for the time being shall appoint and ot of which election they shall give fit at 1 least leas t fifteen days previous notice by advertisement I 1 in ansome some newspaper in or near tile the city of nauvoo at al election of trustees each stockholder s shall hall every be entitled to one vote 0 on n each shar of stock owned by hina him provided that no stockholder shall hall be bet entitled la titled to AW than twenty votes iotes I 1 and d aa said d stoc stockholders stock k bold holders eVs I 1 ml may ty voie vote either i in if person or ili by proxy the election for fai trustees shall be conducted in such manner as shall be lowi d out by the bylaws by uy laws of said corporation an ana ahei whenever bever a vacancy shall happen by death rep resignation ignatiou or otherwise among the trust trustees pes the remaining 41 trustees I 1 shall have power to fill such vacancy until the peat next g election sec 9 the tit trustees istenes of said corpo corporation as boon soon as may be after their appointment or election under this act shall proceed to elect oat of their number a president treasurer and secretary who shall respectively hold their offices duling dul ing one year and until others shall bo be elected to fill their places and whose duties shall be defined and prescribed by the bylaws by laws of the corporation and said trustees shall also appoint such agents arid and other persons as may be bb necessary toe to conduct c induct the tha proper business and accomplish the doe declared red objects owsald of said corporation and shall likewise have power to fill any vacancy occasioned by the death re resignation or removal of any officer of said corporation see sec 10 this act shall be construed as a public act and continue jn in force for the period of twenty years year and the trustees appointed under tho the provisions of this act shall hold their first meeting at the city of nauvoo on the first monday of april AD 1841 approved february 27 1841 THO callix CAU W L D EWING speaker of the house houge of representatives S H ANDERSON AND EPSON speaker Speake of the me senate state sin to I 1 office of see af state I 1 1 I lyman trumbull secretary of state do hereby certify the foregoing to be a true and pe perfect I 1 copy of the enrolled law on file in my office given u under my hand and seal saal of cf state springfield march 10 1841 LYMAN TRUMBULL secretary of state I 1 I 1 |