Apr 14, 2015 - Sale 2380

Sale 2380 - Lot 182

Price Realized: $ 3,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(MORMONS.) An Ordinance Concerning Vagrants and Disorderly Persons. 2 pages, 9 1/2 x 7 3/4 inches, on one sheet; minimal wear; embossed City of Nauvoo seal. (MRS) Nauvoo, IL, 22 October 1844

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The original ordinance was passed in November 1841 over the signature of Mayor John C. Bennett. This transcript was made in October 1844 and bears the signature of recorder Willard Richards (1804-1854), then a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and later a counselor to Brigham Young. Provenance: Charles Hamilton Galleries, 16 September 1971, lot 285.