---
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: 7
published: 1842-02-01
publisher: E. Robinson and D. C. Smith; later John Taylor
publisher_place: Commerce and Nauvoo, Illinois
language: en
type: article
reference: "“Of Balloting,” *Times and Seasons* 3, no. 7 (February 1, 1842): 686."
printed_title: Of Balloting.
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1842-02-01_3_7
  transcription: Text from the Centerplace.org transcription (https://www.centerplace.org/history/ts/v3n07.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_1842-02-01_3_7
start_page: 686
end_page: 686
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_1842-02-01_3_7
  publication_year: 1842
---

# Of Balloting

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39th. In balloting for committees, a plurality of votes shall be sufficient to make a choice, but in other cases a majority of the whole number of votes shall be required to decide.

All of which is respectfully submitted.

JOHN C. BENNETT, Mayor.

The above communication was read by the Recorder to the City Council, on the 22nd Jan. 1842, and referred to a Select Committee, consisting of Joseph Smith, and Orson Pratt--the committee reported back the Communication and recommended its adoption, which was carried.

The council then proceeded to the election of Vice-Mayor, whereupon Gen. Joseph Smith was declared to be duly elected, and took the oath of office.

The Mayor then announced the following Standing Committees, to wit:

Committee of Ways and Means-Joseph Smith, Daniel H. Wells, Orson Spencer, and Hiram Kimball

Committee of Improvement-Samuel H. Smith, N. K. Whitney, Charles C. Rich, and William Marks.

Committee of Claims--William Law, Vinson Knight, and Hugh McFall.

Committee of Unfinished Business---Wilson Law, Lyman Wight.

Committee of Elections---John T. Barnett, John P. Green, and Gustavus Hills.

Committee of Police---Willard Richards, John Taylor, Heber C. Kimball, and George W. Harris.

Committee of Municipal Laws---Hyrum Smith, Brigham Young, Wilford Woodruff, Orson Pratt, and Joseph Smith.

Committee of Public Grounds---William Marks, Daniel H. Wells, Hyrum Smith, and Hiram Kimball.

Committee of Public Works---Joseph Smith, John T. Barnett, and William Law. JOHN C. BENNETT, Mayor.

James Sloan, Recorder.

January 22nd, A. D. 1842.