--- title: Times and Seasons description: Issues of 1840 to 1841. 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: 2 number: 11 published: 1841-04-01 publisher: E. Robinson and D. C. Smith; later John Taylor publisher_place: Commerce and Nauvoo, Illinois language: en type: article reference: "“Charter for the Nauvoo House,” *Times and Seasons* 2, no. 11 (April 1, 1841): 370–371." printed_title: CHARTER FOR THE NAUVOO HOUSE. source: url: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1841-04-01_2_11 transcription: Text from the Centerplace.org transcription (https://www.centerplace.org/history/ts/v2n11.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_1841-04-01_2_11 start_page: 370 end_page: 371 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 1841 (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_1841-04-01_2_11 publication_year: 1841 --- # Charter for the Nauvoo House An act to incorporate the Nauvoo House Association. Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly, That George Miller, Lyman Wight, John Snider, and Peter Haws and their associates are hereby declared a body corporate, under the name and style of the "Nauvoo House Association," and they are hereby authorized to erect and furnish a public house of entertainment to be called the "Nauvoo House." Sec. 2. The above named George Miller, Lyman Wight, John Snider, and Peter Haws, are hereby declared to be the Trustees of said association, with full power and authority to hold in joint tenancy by themselves and their successors in office, a certain lot in the city of Nauvoo, in the county of Hancock and state of Illinois, known and designated on the plot of said city, as the south half of lot numbered fifty six, for the purpose of erecting thereon the house contemplated in the first section of this act. Sec. 3. The said Trustees are further authorized and empowered to obtain by stock subscription, by themselves or their duly authorized agents, the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, which shall be divided into shares of fifty dollars each. Sec. 4. No individual shall be permitted to hold more than three hundred nor less than one shares of stock, and certificates of stock shall be delivered to subscribers, so soon as their subscriptions are paid in, and not before. Sec. 5. As soon as the above contemplated house shall have been completed and furnished, the stockholders shall appoint such agents, as the Trustees may deem necessary in the management of the affairs of said association. Sec. 6. The Trustees shall have power to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in any court of this State, in the name and style of the "Trustees of the Nauvoo House Association." Sec. 7. They shall also take the general care and supervision in procuring materials for said house and constructing and erecting the same, and further to superintend its general management and to do and perform all matters and things which may be necessary to be done in order to secure the interests and promote the objects of this association. Sec. 8. This association shall continue twenty years from the passage of this act, and the house herein provided for, shall be kept for the accommodation of strangers, travellers [travelers], and all other persons who may resort thereto, for rest and refreshment. Sec. 9. It is moreover established as a perpetual rule of said house to be observed by all persons who may keep or occupy the same, that spirituous liquors of every discription [description], are prohibited, and that such liquors shall never be vended as a beverage or introduced into common use in said house. Sec. 10. And whereas Joseph Smith has furnished the said association with the ground whereon to erect said house, it is further declared, that the said Smith, and his heirs shall hold by perpetual succession a suit [suite] of rooms in the said house, to be set apart and conveyed in due form of law to him and his heirs by said Trustees as soon as the same are completed. Sec. 11. The Board of Trustees shall appoint one of their number as president thereof. WM. L. D. EWING, Speaker of the House of Rep's. S. H. ANDERSON, Speaker of the Senate. Approved, Feb'y 23rd, 1841. THO. CARLIN. State of Illinois, Office of Secretary of State. I, Lyman Trumbull Secretary of State do hereby certify the foregoing to be a true and perfect copy of the enrolled law on file in my office. Given under my hand, and [L. S.] Seal of State, Springfield, March 10th, 1841. LYMAN TRUMBULL, Secretary of State.