| 479 and restrain billiard tables, and from one to twenty pin alleys, and every other description of gaming or gambling.
"Sec. 86. The City Council shall have power to make all ordinances which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the powers specified in this act, so that such ordinance be not repugnant to, nor inconsistent with, the Constitution of the United States or of this State.
"Sec. 37. The style of the ordinances of the city shall be: 'Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Springfield.'
"Sec. 38. All ordinances passed by the City Council shall, within one month after they shall have been passed, be published in some newspaper published In the city, and shall not be in force until they shall have been published as aforesaid.
"Sec. 39. All ordinances of the city may be proven by the seal of the corporation, and when printed and published by authority of the corporation, the same shall be received in evidence in all courts and places without further proof."-Times and Seasons, vol. 2, pp. 281-286.
In the bustle incident to the organizing of a city government under the new charter the year closed.
Joseph Smith gives the list of publications for and against the church for the year 1840 as follows:-
"The following is a list of books, pamphlets, and letters published for and against the Latter Day Saints during the past year, so far as have come under my observation:-
"Fourteen numbers of the Times and Seasons have been issued from the office in Nauvoo, containing 224 pages, edited by E. Robinson and Don Carlos Smith, three numbers having been issued during 1839.
"Eight numbers of the Millennial Star have been published at 149 Oldham Road, Manchester, England, containing 216 pages, edited by Elder P. P. Pratt.
"A selection of hymns was published about the first of July, in England, by Brigham Young, John Taylor, and Parley P. Pratt, for the use of the saints in Europe.
"The Rev. Robert Heys, Wesleyan minister, Douglas,
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