---
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: 9
published: 1841-03-01
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 Plot,” *Times and Seasons* 2, no. 9 (March 1, 1841): 336."
printed_title: An Ordinance in relation to the City Plot.
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1841-03-01_2_9
  transcription: Text from the Centerplace.org transcription (https://www.centerplace.org/history/ts/v2n09.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_1841-03-01_2_9
start_page: 336
end_page: 336
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_1841-03-01_2_9
  publication_year: 1841
---

# An Ordinance in relation to the City Plot

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Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Nauvoo, That no tract of land, within the limits of this city, shall hereafter be surveyed, plotted and laid out into city lots, unless the same be surveyed, and plotted, as to correspond with the original survey and plot, of the City of Nauvoo-and any survey, or plot, made in violation of this ordinance shall be null and void.

Sec. 2. This Ordinance to take effect, and be in force, from and after its passage.

Passed, March 1st, A. D. 1841.

JOHN C. BENNETT, Mayor.

James Sloan, Recorder.