---
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: "“Rules of Order of the City Council,” *Times and Seasons* 3, no. 7 (February 1, 1842): 683."
printed_title: RULES OF ORDER OF THE CITY COUNCIL.
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: 683
end_page: 683
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
---

# Rules of Order of the City Council

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Extract from the minutes of the City Council.

"The Council then received the following communication from the Mayor, to wit:

Mayor's Office, City of Nauvoo.}

Illinois, Jan. 22d, A. D. 1842. }

Gentlemen of the City Council,

Aldermen, and Councillors [Councilors]:

I have carefully selected and prepared the following "Rules of order of the City Council of the City of Nauvoo," and present them for your adoption, to wit,--