--- title: Times and Seasons description: Issues of 1841 to 1842. 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: 3 number: 5 published: 1842-01-01 publisher: E. Robinson and D. C. Smith; later John Taylor publisher_place: Commerce and Nauvoo, Illinois language: en type: article reference: "“Choir of the Stake of Zion in the City of Nauvoo.,” *Times and Seasons* 3, no. 5 (January 1, 1842): 653–654." printed_title: '"CHOIR OF THE STAKE OF ZION IN THE CITY OF NAUVOO."' source: url: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1842-01-01_3_5 transcription: Text from the Centerplace.org transcription (https://www.centerplace.org/history/ts/v3n05.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_1842-01-01_3_5 start_page: 653 end_page: 654 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 1842 (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_1842-01-01_3_5 publication_year: 1842 --- # “Choir of the Stake of Zion in the City of Nauvoo.” The Choir of Singers presented a petition to the Board of Regents of the University, at their last sitting, for the appointment of a "Professor and Wardens in the Department of Music in the University of the City of Nauvoo," to constitute a board for the regulation of Music in this city, which was adopted, and the following persons appointed; to wit: GUSTAVUS HILLS, Professor. Wardens. B. S. WILBER, 1st Ward. STEPHEN H. GODDARD, 2nd Ward. TITUS BILLINGS, 3rd Ward. JOHN PACK, 4th Ward. The Chancellor, General Bennett, recommended the Regents to instruct the board composed of the Professor and Wardens, aforesaid, to prohibit the flat sound of the notes, and adopt the broad; whereupon General Joseph Smith, observed "I move the instruction, for I was always opposed to any thing flat." The motion prevailed--Nem. con. An Ordinance concerning fire arms, and Parties Litigant. Sec. 1. Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Nauvoo, That if any person shall fire or shoot a gun, pistol, or other fire arms, idly or for sport or amusement, in the night, or on Sunday, the person so doing shall forfeit and pay a fine not exceeding fifty Dollars; provided, that nothing herein contained, shall be construed to affect any officer of this city for firing or shooting as aforesaid while in the execution of his duty. Sec. 2. That if any person shall prosecute another before the authorities of this city, (in a criminal case,) and fail to procure a conviction, said person shall be taxed with the costs of suit, if said anthorities [authorities] shall consider it a malicious prosecution; if not, the city shall be liable for the costs thereof. This Ordinance to take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Passed Nov. 27th, A. D. 1841. JOHN C. BENNETT, Mayor. JAMES SLOAN, Recorder.