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The New Insolvent Law.
An Act
To Abolish hnprisonment fir Debt, and
lo Punish Fradulent Debtors.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate
and House of Representatives of the Coon
monwealth of Pennsylvania, in General
Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted
by the authority of the same, That from
and after the passage of this act, no person
shall be arrested or imprisoned oil auy
civil process, issuing out of any court of
this commonwealth, in any suit or procee
ding instituted for the recovery of tiny mo
ney due upon any contract, express or
implied, or for the recovery of any dama
ges for the non preformance of any con
tract, excepting in proceedings as for
contempt to enforce civil remedies, actions
for tines or penalties, or on promises to
marry, on moneys collected by any public
0 officer, or for any misconduct or neglect
IC offile, or in any professional employ
ment, in which cases the remedies shall
remain as heretofore. Provided, That
this section shall not extend to any person
who shall not have resided in this State
for 2S days pi evious to the commence
ment of a suit against him.
:7 Sec. 2. In all cases where, by the pre-
[siding provisions of this act, a party to a
suit cannot be arrested or imprisoned ; it
shall be lawful fur the party who shall
base commenced a suit, or obtained a
judgment in any court of record. to apply
to any jadge of the court in which the suit
shall have been brought for a warrant to
arrest the party against whom the suit
shall have been commenced, or the judg.
ment shall have been obtained, whereupon
the said judge shall require of the "aid
party satisfactory evidence either by the
tiffidavit of the party mucking such applies-
Hon, or some other persous, th.it there is a
r t .
ebt or demand due to the party making
ugh application from the other party in
the suit, or judgment, in which affidavit
the nature and amount of the indebtedness
shall be set forth as near as may be.
Sec. S. If the demand set forth in the
aldavit. be such that the party could riot
s,according to the ptovisons of this act be
f t arrested, and if the affidavit shall establish
1 . to the saticfaction of the judge, one or
more of the following particulars, to wit:
That the party is about to remove any
of his property out of the jurisdiction of
the court. in which suit is brought, with
intent to defraud his creditors;
Ur, that he has property or rights, in
action, which he fraudulently conceals;
Or, that he has rights in action, or smite
iatereat in any public or corporate stuck,
s. "money, or evidence of debt, which he %Ju
r' pistil refuses to apply to the payment of
' any judgments, which shall have been ren
dered against him, belonging to the corn -
plainant ;
Or; that he has assigned, removed, or
disposed of, or is about to dispose of, any
of his property with the intent to defraud
hie- creditors;
• ~. Or, that he fraudulently contracted the
4"'" * debt, or incurred the obligation, respect
ing which suit is brought •
It shall be the duty of ihe said judge, to
issue a warrant of arrest in the form fol
lowing to wit :
Sec. 4.
County es.
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. to
the Sheriff, or any Constable of coun
ty, Greeting:
Whereas, complaint has this day been
made, '3efore me, on the oath (or afhrina
lion, as the case may be,) of (here insert
the name of the party making the affidavit)
setting forth (here briefly set forth the
omplaint.)
These are therefore to continent] you to
rreet the said , and bring
im (or them, as the case may be,) before
e, at my office, in (here insert the real
toce
of the judge) without delay, to be
malt with according to law. And have
„ta there also this precept.
'," Witness my hand, at , this
day of - -, Judge.
Which warrant shall be accompanied by
a copy of all affidavits presented to the
judge, upon which the warrant is issued,
which shall be certified by such judge, and
shall t delivered to the party at the time of
serving the warrant, by the officer serving
She same.
See. 5. The officer to whom such war
vast Audi bs delivered shall execute the
THE JOURNAL.
HAattie, by arresting the person therein na
med, and bringing him or them before the
judge issuing the warrant, and shall keep
nitu in custody until he shall be duly dis-
charged, or 'committed, us hereinafter
provided.
_ .
Sec. 6. On the appearance of the per,
son so arrested before the J udge, he may
controvert any of the fact.; and circtan-
stances on which such warrant is issued,
and may, at his option, verify his obliga•
firms by its affidavit, and in case of his
so verifying the same, the complainant may
examine him on oath, touching any fact or
circumstance material to the inquiry, and
the answers on such examination, shall
be reduced tie writing; and subscribed by
him, and the officer conducting such In
quiry shall also receive such other proof
as the parties may otter, either at the time
of such first appearance, or at such other
times as such hearing be adjourned
and in case of adj iurnment, the Judge
may take a bond, with or without surety'
for the appearance of the party arrested at
the adjournel hearing.
Sec. 7. The judges conducting such in
quiry shall have the seine powers to issue
stitipcena to inforce the attendance of
witnesses, and to punish witnesses refu
sing to testify as is vested in the court of
which lie is a judge.
Sec. 8. If such judge is satisfied that
the allegations of the complainant are
substantiated and that the party arrested
has done, or is about to do any one of the
acts specified in the third section of this
act, he -hail issue a rommitm.nit unite,
his hand, reciting the facts of the case and
directing that sues party he committed to
the jail of the county in which such hear
ing is hail, to tnr there detained until he
-hall he discharged by law, and such par
ty shall be committed and detained ac
cordingly.
. . .
Sec. 9 Such commitment shall not be
granted if the defendant shall pay the
,debt or demand claimed, with the cost of
suit and of the proceedings against him,
or give security to the satisfactin of the
judge before a hum the hearing shall be
had, that the debt or demsoo; wlo, ...-
costs of the suit and proceedings against
hint, shall be paid with interest within
sixty days, if the demand be in judgment
and the length of time for stay of execus
lion given by law oti debts of like amount
has expired, and if the said length of time
has not elapsed, theft that the same sl all
be paid at the expiration of that time, it
that shall be sixty days distant font the
time of giving said surety, and it not, then
that the same shall be paid within sixty
days from the time of giving the sante.—
II the demand be not in judgment at the
time of giving said surety, the day of pay•
went shall be regulated by the same rule,l
but in no case shall the party be required
to give surety for the payment of the debt'
before the receiving of judgment.
Sec.lo. Such commitment shall nut be
granted it :he party arrested shall give bond
to the complainant in a penalty of nut leas
than twice the amount of the debt or de
mand claimed, with such suretiesa*shall
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be approved by such judge, conditioned,
thot lie will not remove any property
which he then has, out of the Jurisdiction
of the court in which suit is brought with
the intent to defraud any of his creditors.
and that he will not assign, sell, convey, or
dispose of any of his property with such
intent. or with a view to give a preference
to any creditor for any debt anteced nt to
such assignment, sole conveyance, or dis
position, until the il..matitt of the complain
ant,t with costs, shall be, satisfiied, or un
til thirty davit atter a first judgment shall
he rendered in the suit brought for the re
covery of such demand : Provided, how
ever, that this section shall apply only to
cases where the only fradulent design es
tablished against the party arrested is, that
he is about to remove any at his property
out of the jutimliction or the court in
which such suit is brought, wish intent to
defraud his creditors.
Sec. 11. Soch commitment shall not be
granted it the person arrested shall enter
into abond to the complainant in the pen
alty, and with the securities prescribed in
the preceding section, conditioned, that
lie will witliiii thirty days apply by peti•
tion to the Court of Common Pleas of the
county, or to a judge thereof, it the court
shall nut within that time be in session, for
the benefit of the insolvent laws of this
Commonwealth, and that lie will comply
with all the requisitions of said law, and
abide all orders of the said court in that
hehalt, or in default thereof, and if he
fail in obtaining his discharge as an insol
vent debtor, that he shall on the day of his
so failing surrender himself to the jail of
said county.
Sec. 12. Any defendant, cominttted
agreeably to the eighth section of this act.
shall remain in custody in the same man.
nee as other trimmers on criminal process,
until a final judgment shall have been ren
dered in his 'prison. in a suit prosecuted
by the creditor whose instance he shall
have been committed, or until lie shall
have assigned his property and obtained
hie discharge, as provided in the cubit
"ONE COUNTRY, ONE CONSTITUTION, ONE IIESTINY."
HUNTINGDON, PENNSYLVANIA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1842.
quent section of this act; but such person
may at any time be discharged by any
judge of the county, on his — paying the
debt or demand claimed, and costs, or by
giving the security for the payment there
of, as provided in the ninth section of' this
act, or on his executing either of the Londs
mentioned in the tenth and eleventh sec
tions of this act.
Sec. 13. Any person committed as,
above provided, or who shall have givca:
the bond specified in the eleventh settidir
of this act, or against whom any suit shall
have been commenced in a mild record,
in which such person by the provisions of
.
:his act mina be arrested or intprisoned,
may present a petition to the.ticitirt of
Common Pleas of the county in 'Which he
shall be imprisoned, or in which the said
suit is pending, or to the jud,,e thereof,
praying that he may assign his property
and have the benefit of the provisions of
this act,
Sec. 14 The petition aforesaid shall set
forth all the matters required to be set
forth by the ninth section of the act of the
sixteenth day of June, one thousand eight
hundred and thirtrsix, entitled an act
relating to insolvent debtors." and shall,
co
be verified in like manner. Upon th
presentation of the said petition the o i
or judge shall fix a time for the hearin, ul
the same, which shall be during the tier
Arssion of the Court of 01111:1111I1 PIeAS
Provided, Thirty days sl all intervene Ins
tween the presentation of he petition and
the time for hearing the same, and the pe.
(Rimier and his creditors shall be heard be•
fore the judges of the Court of Common
Pleas, unless the said court shall make an
inter that a single judge shall hear the case
and decide it, in winch case the judge shall
have all the powers herein cantered upon
the court,
Sec. 15. The court or judge shall pro
ceed agreeahly to the ptovistons of the
aforesaid act of the sixteenth day of J une,
one thousand eight hundred and thirty
six, in causing notice to be given to the
en•di tors of the petitioner. it deriding up.
on his case, in tilaking orders, io
• ist . 4 -tsv •. moms t..y
petitioner, in tire oath to be adininistereil
to him, and in ill pro,:erilitigs thereafter
touching his property, and shall have the
same power over the trustees to WI Bll
assignini ut shall be made, as is therein
specifii d•
Sec. 16 The trustees of soy debtor, to
whom an assignment shall be made under
this act, shall have the same powers, shall
be liable to the slate duties, and shall
proceed in the same 111,11 tier, in all re
spects to discharge the same, as is given,
imposed upon, and required of the trustees
under the aforesaid act, and the rights of
creditors and their remedies shall be 01..1
same as under the said act, and the effect
of a discharge of the petitioner by the said
court shall be Victimise as under the said
act, so far as regards birth his person soul
property, and all rights and remedies given
by said act, and all proceedings, both'
civil arid criminal, thereby authorized,
may be had the same as it they were here
in fully enacted at length, so tar as the
astute can be applied to the case at a debt
or upon a contract only.
Sec. 17. Any pi ratio who shall be im
prisoned on civil process at the tin e of
this act taking effect as a law, in a case
where, by the preceding provisions of this
act, such person could not be arrested or
imprisoned, may give ten days notice, in
writing, to the plaintiff, his agent, or at
torney, of his intention to apply to a
judge of the court of common pleas of the
county in which he is imprisoned, for a
discharge front confinement. Upon proof
of such notice haring been given, it shall
be the duty of any judge of said cow t to
issue a writ of habeas corpus to the officer
having such person in custody, to bring
liiin before the said judge, at a time and
place to be named, not less than twit nor
more than six days thereafter. If the
plaintiff; or his agent ttr attorney, shall not
have tiled with said judge ail affidavit set
ting forth such facts as are required by
section third of this act, an order to ojtain
a warrant of arrest, and the case be such
an one that the party by the preceding
provisions of this act could not be impri
soned, it shall be the duty of the said judge
to make an order discharging the party
from imprisonment. but if such affidavit
shall have been if eil, arid the judge, on
hearing the case, shall be satisfied that
the imprisoned party, it at liberty, would
be liable to an arrest under tire provisions
of this act, then, and in that case, the
judge shall proceed in lie same manner as
it the party had been brought before hail
upon such warrant of arrest us hereinafter
provided.
Sec. IS. When a cntnplaint shall be
mole, and a warrant of arrest issued, or
upon a hearing under tire seventeenth
section of this act, and the complaint shall
be dismissed, the piety making the same
shall be liable for all lees to officers, and
fir all costs winch the party arrested shall
have incurred, and the fees of the officers
shall be the same as for sitniliar services
in other cases. Witnesses shall receive
the same fees as are allowed before justi
ces of the peace, but if the complaint shall
he sustained, the party making the same
shall recover the costs of the party arrea•
ted, upon the same being timed or allowed
by the proper officer, and shall be recov
,
erect with the other costs in the suit.
Sec. 19. Whenever any bond given un
der the preceding sections of this act shall
Inggat! forfeited by the non-performance
ndition thereof, the obligee shall
tt~eliiited to recover thereon the amount
due to him on the judgment obtained in the
original snit.
Sec. 20. Any person who shall remove
any of his property out of any county,
with intent to prevent the same from be •
ing levied upon by an execution, or who
shall secrete, assign, convey, or otherwise
.lispuse of any of his property, with intent
to defraud any creditor, or to prevent such
property from being
made liable tor the
payment of his debts, and any person who
shall receive such property, with such in•
tent, or who shall, collude with the debtor
for the concealment of any part of his es
tate or effects, or hir haying a false color
thereto, yr shall conceal any grant, sale,
lease, build, or other instrument or pros
ceedingAither in writing or by parole, or
shall become a grantee, purchaser, lessee,
or other.like party in any such instrument
of proceeding, with the like fraudulent in
tent, or shall act as broker, scrivener,
agent, nr witness, in regard to such in
strument or proceeding, with the like in
tent, such person or persons, on convic
tion thereof, in the court of quarter ses
sions of the proper county, shall be
deemed guilty of misdemeanor, and shall
forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding the
value of the property or effects so secreted,
assigned, conveyed, or otherwise disposed
of or concealed, or in respect to which
such collusion shall have taken place, and
shall suffer imprisonment not exceeding
one year.
. . . .
S;c. 21. Every person, who with intent
to cheat or defraud seemlier, shall design
wily, oy color of any . , .
0.• - by any tats pretrwc, whfitahrt-ver.
oft
caltl fruit, city per.on any money, or per •
sous! .4.1•••• ...a.••11 , • at....,
11 p(1:1 cun vtctlon thereof, shall be imeitison
ed in the penitentiary or in the county
jail, at the discretion of the court before
whom lee shall be tried„ not exceeding one
year, or by fine not exceeding three times
the value of the money or property or
Oilier thing sit obtained, or by both such
fine and imprisonment.
Sec. 22. No person shall be excused
frOill answering any bell seeking a disco
very in relation to any fraud prohibited
by 'his act, or from answering as a wit
ness in relation to any such fraud, but eio
answer shall be used in evidence en any
Ocher suit or prosecution.
Sec. 23. No execution issued on any
lodgment rendered by any alderman
or justice of the peace, upon any demand
arising , upon contract, express or implied,
shall contain a clause authorizing an arrest
or imprisonment of the person against
whom the same shall issue, unless it shall
be proved by the affidavit oldie person in
whose favor such execution shall issue, or
that of other person, tee the satisfaction
of the alderman or justice of the peace,
' either that such judment was for the re
cuvery of money col l ected by any public
officer, or for official misconduct or ne-
glect of duty, or that the person against
whom the same shall issue had not resided
in this State Fur the space of thirty days
immediately preceding the commence
ment of the suit upon which judgment
was rendered, or immediately preceding the
rendition of judgment, ►t the same was
rendered upon confession without process.
Sec. 24. No capias or warrant of arrest
shall issue against any defendant, in any
case in which by the previsions of the
preceding section an execution on the
judgment recovered could nut be issued
against the body, and whenever a capias
or warrant of arrest in such case shall
issue the like affidavit shall be required as
for the issuing of an elecution by the pro.
visions of said section.
Sec. 25. Whenever a plaintiff shall re
side out of the county, he may, upon giv•
ing bond with sufficient surety for the
payment of all costs which he may become
liable to pay in the event of his hiding to
recover judgment against the defendant,
have a captas or warrant of arrest, if he
shall be entitled to such a writ on making
the affidavit required in the twenty-second
section of this act s or a summons which
in ,y be made returnable, not less than
two or more than four days from the date
thereof, which shall be served at least two
days before the time of appearance men
tioned therein, and if the same shall be
returned, personally served, the justice or
alderman issuing the sante may proceed
to hear and determine the case in the
manner heretofore allowed by law.
Sec. 26. Whenever, by the provisions
of the twenty•thirl i k ction of this act, nu
capias can issue, MB the defendant shall
reside out of the county, he shall be pro•
ceeded sgainst by summons of attachment,
returnable not lees than two, nor more
than four days from the date thereof.
which shall be served at least ti,io days
before the time of appearance mentioned
therein.
Sec. 27. It shall be the duty of any
derman or justice of the peace, to issue an
attachment against any defendant, on the
application of the plaintiff in any case,
where by the provisions of this act no
capias can issue, upon proof by the affida
vit of• the plaintiff, or some other person or '
persons, to the satisfaction of the alder
man or justice, that the defendant is about
to remove from the county any of his prop
erty, with intent to defraud his creditors,
or has assigned, disposed of, or secreted,
or is about to assign, dispose of, or secrete
any of his property, with the like fraudu
lent intent, which affidavit shall also ape.
cify the amount of the plaintiff's claim on
the balance thereof over and above all
discounts which the defendant may have
against him; Provided that before such
attachment shall issue, the plaintiff, or
some one in his behalf, shall execute a
band, in the penalty of at least two hun•
dred dollars, with good and sufficient
securities, conditioned that in case the
plaintiffshall fail to recover a judgment tit
at least one half the amount of his claim,
he shall pay to the defendant his damages
for the wrongful taking of any property
over and above the amount sufficient to
satisfy the judgment and costs, and that
if the plaintiff shall fail in his action, he
shall pay to the defendant his legal costs,
and all damages which he may sustain by
reason of said attachment.
Sec. 28. Every such attachment shall
be made returnable over not less than two
nor more than fitur days from the date ,
thereof, and shall be served by the con• ,
stable to whom the same shall be directed, ,
by attaching so much of the defendant's ,
property, not exempt by law from sole
upon execution, as will be sufficient to ,
pay the debt demanded, and by delivering
to him a copy of said attachment, and an
inventory of the property attached. if he
...tory. and it not so to I
be found, then, by leaving a copy of the
same at his place of residence, with some
or his family, or the fAtt.ity
whert he shall reside, or at he be a non
resident of the county and cannot be
found, then by leavMe • --
mai..nena and inventory with the person
in whose possession the said property
may be.
Sec. 29. The constable shall state spe- •
cufically in his return the manlier in which l
he shall have served such attachment, and
it shall be his duty to take the property
attached into his possession, unless the
defendant, or some other person for him,
shall enter into a bond with sufficient
surety in the penalty of not less than two
hundred dollars, conditioned that in the I
event of the plaiotitt recovering judgment
against him he will pay the debt and
costs, at the expiration of the stay of
execution given by law to freeholders, or
that lie will surrender up the property
attached, to any officer having an execu
tion against him on any judgment record
ed in such attachment.
Sec. 30. If such attachment shall be
returned personally served upon the de
fendant at least three days before the re
turn day thereof, the alderman or Justice
shall, on the return day, proceed to hear
and determine the satne; in the same man
tier as upon a summons returned person
ally served. But if the same shall not
have been so served, the alderman or jus-
tice shall issue a summons against the
defendant, returnable as summonses issued j
by justices of the peace are now returna
ble, and if the said summons shall be re- ,
turned personally served, or by leaving a
copy at the residence of the defendant, .
after diligent inquiry, cannot be found in
the coup: y, then, in eitlofr case, the alder
man or justice of the peace shall proceed
to hear anti determine the cause, in the
same manner as upon a summons person.
ally served.
Sec. 31. Any defendant against Whom
a judgment shall have been rendered in
any case where the attachment or sum
mons shall not have beeaa personally serv•
ed, may, within thirty days after the ren
dition of the same, apply to the alderman
or justice rending the same for a hearing
of the matter, and if he, or some other
person, know ing the facts, shall for him
make an affidavit setting forth that he has
a just defence to the whole or part of the
plantilfs demand, it shall be the duty of
the alderman or justice to open judgment,
and give notice to the plaintifful the time
when he will hear the parties, which time
shall be not less than four, nor more than
eight days distant. On the said hearing
the justice shall proceed in the manlier
directed in the 50th section of this act.
Sec. 52. A judgment obtained before
any alderman or justice, in any suit com
menced by attachment, when the defen
dant shall not be personally sued with the
attachment or summons, and shall not
appear, shall be only presumptive evidence
of indebtedness in any scire facias that
may be brought thereon, and may be dis
proved by the defendant, and I,t) execution
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issued upon such judgment shall be levied
upon:any other property than such as was
seized under the
.attachment, nor shall
any defendant in such case be barred of
any set off which he may have against the
. . .
Sec. 33. A defendant, against whose
body by the provisions of this act, an exe
cution cannot be issued by an alderman or
justice of the peace, shall not be required
in order to obtain an appeal, stay of elect' ,
bon, or adjournment, to give a bond or
recognizance in the nature of special bail,
but the bond or recognizance in the case
of an appeal, shall be conditioned for the
payment of the debt and costs, which the
plaintiff shall recover against the defen
dant. In case of bail fur stay ut execution,
it shall be conditioned fur the payment of
the debt and costs at the expiration of the
stay, and in case of an adjuurnment, it
shall be conditioned that Ito part of die
property of the defendant which is liable
to be taken in execution shall be removed,
secreted, assigned, or in any way disposed
of, except the necessary support of himself
and family, until the plaintiff's demand
shall be satisfied, or until after the expi
ration of ten days alter such plaintiff shall
be entitled to have an execution issued on
the judgment obtained in such case, it he
shall obtain such judgment; and if the
condition of such bond and recognizance
be broken, and an execution on such
judgment be returned unsatisfied, in
whole or in part, the plaintiff, in an action
on such bond or recognizance, shall be
entitled to recover the amount due on
such judgment.
Sec. 34. This act shall not be constru
ed to extend the jur;sdicnon of justices
of the peace and alderman to demands on
one hundred dollars, and the same right
which is given to the parties respectively
to appeal from the decision of an alderman
or justices of the peace by the act of the
twentieth day of March, one thousand
eight hundred and ten, relating to the pre=
eeedings of justices of the peace, is hereby
given to the parties respectively in proce
dings upon summons or attachments issued
by . aldermen or justices of the peace under
thrs act. Arid all and singular the pro
visions of the said act, and its several
srirr i Ll'lii n ; t i e ictiqtfi'illreply.r.c.pealcd
this act, are hereby declared to be in lull
force, and to apply to the provisions of
this act so far as the same relates to pro
ceedings beforelahlerman or justice of the
peace, and to the powers of the courts of
record over the proceedings of justices of
the pence.
Sec. 35. After the defendant, in any
case, shall have executed the bond requir
ed by the eleventh section of this act, he
shall not sell, assign or dispose of any
part of his property which is not exempt
by law from execution, except so far as
may be necessary fur the support of him
' self and family, until he shall be dischar
ged. And if proof shall be made, on the
hearing before the judge or the court, that
the applicant had so soli, assigned or dis
posed of his property, it shall be the duty
of said judge or of the court to refuse to
make the order directed by the aforesaid
act of the sixteenth day of June. one thou
sand eight hundred and thirty-six.
Sec, 36. After the passage of this act,
the secretary of the commonwealth shall
immediately cause a sufficient number of
copies of this act to be printed by the
printers of the bills of the House of Rep.
resentatives, to supply every judge, skiers
iff, prothonotary, alderman and justice of
the peace in the State with a copy, which
shall be by him transmitted to the prothon
itaries of the different counties, and by
. . .
them distr;buted to the officers entitled
thereto—the expense of which printing
and transmission shall 5e paid in the man
ner provided by law for the printing of
the laws. .
Sec. 57. So much of any act as is here
by altered or supplied is hereby repealed.
4 11119 a Day and Roast Beet?'
Our Locnfoco friends are worried a
good deal that any hig should purpose
any such wages for the workingmen.—
We don't know who it was that set this
$2 ball " in motiun"—but it strikes us as
being a good deal better motto than " Low
wages and no meat," under which Mr.
Williams a Locofoco member of Congress
from Massachusetts, essayed to rally the
"democratic prty" in 1840--and a mot
to, by the way, under which the Locofoca
leaders are, in effect now endeavoring to
drill their forces. If it is to be "82 a day
and roast beer' against .` low wages and
no meat," there will not be much difficulty
in determining which side to take. It is
surprising in us that high wages and good
living for the workingmen, should be zeal.
tingly opposed even by Anti-Bank, hard
money Lonotocos.—Dayton Journal.
The General Council of the City of
New Orleans have passed an ordinance
levying a tax of $4OOO per annum on
every person doing business as money begs.
:ker iR tkst city.