{179} Sect. 1. Be it ordained by the City Council of the city of Nauvoo, that the Mayor of this city is hereby authorized to sell said liquors in such quantities as he may deem expedient. Sect. 2. Be it further ordained, that other persons not exceeding one to each ward of the city, may also sell said liquors in like quantities for medical and mechanical purposes by obtaining a license of the Mayor of the city. The above ordinance to be in full force and effect immediately after its passage,--all ordinances to the contrary notwithstanding. Passed January 16, 1844. JOSEPH SMITH, Mayor. W. RICHARDS, Recorder. An ordinance was also passed, authorizing Henry G. Sherwood to make out a city directory, and to establish an intelligence office in the city. Also the following ordinance:-- _An Ordinance concerning Witnesses and Jurors' Fees_. Be it ordained by the City Council of the city of Nauvoo, that hereafter all persons subpoenaed and attending upon courts of trial as witnesses, or as jurors in civil cases, shall not be compelled to testify or be held in attendance either as witness or juror, unless they shall first be tendered the sum of fifty cents per day for each witness and each juror subpoenaed. Passed January 16, 1844. JOSEPH SMITH, Mayor. W. RICHARDS, Recorder. _Wednesday, 17.--_At home settling accounts with various individuals. Gave deed of a lot to John Lytle. The steamer _Shepherdess_ sank near St. Louis, drowning forty passengers. _Thursday, 18.--_At home, and wrote letters to Reuben McBride and Joseph Coe, Kirtland; Clark Leal, of Fountain Green; and to Justin J. Butterfield, Esq., Chicago. [Sidenote: Assault Upon Nelson Judd.] This afternoon a man called on Brother Nelson Judd, and said he wanted to sell him some wood below Davidson Hibbard's. He went to see the wood, the man saying he would meet him at the place. When below, Hibbard's two {180} men came up on horseback, and told him they had a warrant for him, for taking away Avery's things for Bear Creek. One shot at him twice and the other snapped at him twice with their pistols. Judd then coolly said, "Now, 'tis my turn," putting his hand into his pocket, although he knew he had no pistols: yet the men fled. There was a cotillion party at the Mansion this evening. _Friday, 19.--_Rode out in the course of the day. In the evening, gave a lecture on the Constitution of the United States, and on the candidates for the Presidency. Mild weather. Cloudy in the afternoon. A meeting was held in the assembly room to devise means for the founding of another library institution in Nauvoo. {181} CHAPTER VIII.