--- 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: 8 published: 1841-02-15 publisher: E. Robinson and D. C. Smith; later John Taylor publisher_place: Commerce and Nauvoo, Illinois language: en type: article reference: "“An Ordinance in relation to the City Council,” *Times and Seasons* 2, no. 8 (February 15, 1841): 322." printed_title: An Ordinance in relation to the City Council. source: url: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1841-02-15_2_8 transcription: Text from the Centerplace.org transcription (https://www.centerplace.org/history/ts/v2n08.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_1841-02-15_2_8 start_page: 322 end_page: 322 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_1841-02-15_2_8 publication_year: 1841 --- # An Ordinance in relation to the City Council Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Nauvoo, That should any member of the City Council absent himself from, or neglect or refuse to attend, any regular or special meeting of said Council, for more than thirty minutes after the time appointed, or should the Marshal or Recorder be guilty of a like offence [offense], he shall be fined in the sum of two dollars for each offence [offense]. Sec. 2. Should any member of said Council neglect, or refuse, to attend said meetings, forthwith, on a summons from the Mayor, served by the Marshal, or special messenger of said Council, he shall be fined in the sum of twenty-five dollars, for each offence [offense]; Provided, that the City council may on good cause shown, remit any fine herein, or by this ordinance, assessed. Sec. 3. The above fines to be collected as other debts before the Mayor, at the suit of the City corporation.-This ordinance to take effect, and be in force, from and after its passage. Passed, Feb. 8th, A. D. 1841. JOHN C. BENNETT, Mayor. James Sloan, Recorder.