--- title: Times and Seasons description: Issues of 1839 to 1840. authors: - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints editors: - Ebenezer Robinson - Don Carlos Smith - Smith, Joseph, Jr. - Taylor, John collections: - periodicals tags: - newspaper - times-and-seasons - nauvoo - nineteenth-century periodical: Times and Seasons volume: 1 number: 11 published: 1840-09 publisher: E. Robinson and D. C. Smith; later John Taylor publisher_place: Commerce and Nauvoo, Illinois language: en type: article reference: "“CIRCULAR LETTER. Quarter Master General's Office, Nauvoo, Illinois, Oct. 2nd, 1840,” *Times and Seasons* 1, no. 11 (September 1840): 175." printed_title: CIRCULAR LETTER. Quarter Master General's Office, Nauvoo, Illinois, Oct. 2nd, 1840. source: url: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1840-09_1_11 transcription: Text from the Centerplace.org transcription (https://www.centerplace.org/history/ts/v1n11.htm), with its page breaks; this Internet Archive scan is the reference copy (its OCR was used only as a witness for OCR repair) identifier: per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1840-09_1_11 start_page: 175 end_page: 175 curator_note: A Mormon newspaper published by the church in Nauvoo; included for historical study. Inclusion does not imply endorsement. rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1840 (Nauvoo, Illinois); published before 1931, so public domain in the United States source: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1840-09_1_11 publication_year: 1840 --- # CIRCULAR LETTER. Quarter Master General's Office, Nauvoo, Illinois, Oct. 2nd, 1840 To the Commandants of Independent Companies:-On the 26th ultimo, in obedience to the commands of our worthy Governor, I made the designation, and requisition, on the Ordnance Department, at Washington, for the public arms due this State, from the General Government, for the years, 1838, '39, and '40, directing that said arms be consigned to the care of the Warden of the Penitentiary, at Alton, subject to my orders-but the vouchers in ,my possession being insufficient to authorise [authorize] me to proceed to their distribution, when received, (with the exception of those appertaining to the Companies at Quincy, Chicago, Juliet, and Nauvoo, which will soon be supplied,) you are hereby directed to procure from His Excellency, Thomas Carlin, Commander-in-Chief, to this Department, special official orders, in relation to your respective commands, which will be filled in order of date, unto the entire distribution is consummated,-you will, therefore, please to take notice and govern yourselves accordingly, without further delay. Editors of News papers in this State are respectfully requested to publish the foregoing for the information and benefit of the Independent Corps Militaire of Illinois. J. C. BENNETT, Quarter Master General of Illinois.