March 5, 1842

Nauvoo, Illinois

Nauvoo City Resolutions: Established that if any person's property is subjected to a sheriff's, marshal's, or constable's sale, they will have the privilege to redeem the sale by paying the principal and fifteen percent on the principal within thirty days of the sale. Required parents to keep their children at home on Sundays or pay a five dollar fine for every offense. Required the owners of any "carrion" who had died to remove the animal from the city bounds and to bury it three feet under the ground.