--- title: Times and Seasons description: Issues of 1845 to 1846. 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: 6 number: 23 published: 1846-02-15 publisher: E. Robinson and D. C. Smith; later John Taylor publisher_place: Commerce and Nauvoo, Illinois language: en type: article reference: "“Daily Duty, &c,” *Times and Seasons* 6, no. 23 (February 15, 1846): 1127–1128." printed_title: DAILY DUTY, &c. source: url: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1846-02-15_6_23 transcription: Text from the Centerplace.org transcription (https://www.centerplace.org/history/ts/v6n23.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_1846-02-15_6_23 start_page: 1127 end_page: 1128 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 1846 (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_1846-02-15_6_23 publication_year: 1846 --- # Daily Duty, &c Rule 1. Reveille to beat at six o'clock in the morning. Rule 2. Each person will be required at the beating of the Reveille that is able to arise from their beds, put on their apparel, wash their face and hands, and comb their heads. Rule 3. No man, woman, or child, will be permitted to leave their respective State Rooms, to appear in the Hall (or Cabin) without being completely dressed (i.e.) without their coats, &c. Rule 4. Immediately after the beating of the Revillie [Reveille], the Corporal will visit every State Room, and receive the names of all the sick, and of those who are not able to do duty, and report the same to the officer of the day, who will be chosen every morning. Rule 5. Every Sate Room to be swept, cleansed, and the beds made by seven o'clock. Rule 6. No State Room doors allowed to remain open at any time, from the spreading of the table until cleared off. Rule 7. The Hall must be dusted and cleansed complete by half past seven, every morning. Rule 8. Table spread at eight o'clock, at half past eight, the children to breakfast first, when done to retire on deck, or to their respective State Rooms, and no child will be allowed to be in the Hall while the Table is spreading, and meals getting ready. Rule 9. At quarter past 9 o'clock the ladies and gentlemen will breakfast, and immediately after, retire either on Deck or to their respective State Rooms, to make room to clear the table and adjust things in the Hall. Rule 10. By 10 o'clock the table must be cleared off, the Hall completely swept clean, and then every State Room door thrown open to receive fresh air. Rule 11. From 10 A.M. o'clock until 2 P.M. (four hours) the time will be devoted to labor in various occupations. Rule 12. At half past 2 o'clock, all to retire from the Hall, either to their respective State Rooms, or upon Deck, the doors of the State Rooms closed, and the table spread for dinner. Rule 13. At 3 o'clock the children will dine, then retire either upon Deck or to their State Rooms, and there tarry until the table is cleared off. Rule 14. At 4 o'clock, the ladies and gentlemen will dine, and afterward retire on Deck, or to their State Rooms. Rule 15. By 5 o'clock the table to be cleared off, the Hall swept clean, and the doors of the State Rooms thrown open, and the remainder of the time, until eight o'clock, to be occupied in reading, singing, or other innocent amusements. Rule 16. At 8 o'clock a cold lunch will be placed upon the table, for each one to partake of that feels disposed. Rule 17. By 9 o'clock the table to be cleared, and all ready to retire to rest. Rule 18. One cook, and a cook Police, consisting of three men, will be detailed from the company every week. Rule 19. A Committee of two will be detailed every morning from the company, to wait upon the sick, see that their wants are attended and administered to, &c. Rule 20. A Health Officer will be detailed from the company every morning to inspect the State Rooms every day, and see that all are neat and clean, the beds made, and all dirty clothes removed, put into bags, or rolled up and placed in the hold of the ship. Rule 21. Every Sabbath morning there will be divine service held on board, commencing at 11 o'clock, when all that are able must attend, shaved, and washed clean, so as to appear in a manner becoming the solemn, and holy occasion. N. B. It is expected that the above rules will be strictly complied with by every emigrant (without having to enforce them,) until they are altered or others substituted in their place. After the above rules were printed, it was thought expedient to procure an experienced Cook and Stewart, (coloured [colored]) which we did, at sixteen and eighteen dollars per month; and also a new cooking stove of the latest patent, for ship board, capable of cooking for four or five hundred persons.