1844 - The Nauvoo City Council meets from "10 a. m., to 1:20 p. m., and from 2:20 p. m. to 6:30 p. m. investigating the merits of the Nauvoo Expositor."  An ordinance was passed by the city council against libels, an act was passed calling the Expositor a public nuisance, and the mayor was ordered to immediately have the nuisance removed.  The mayor, Joseph Smith, then orders the marshal to destroy the press.  "About 8 p. m., the Marshal returned and reported that he had removed the press, type, printed paper, and fixtures into the street, and destroyed them" (History of the Church, 6:432).  These actions would lead to the arrest of Joseph and Hyrum Smith and their death in Carthage, Illinois.