Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1803-01-07
C O N G. r E S S
or THE UNITED STATES.
HOUSE or REPRESENTATIVES.
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dehsors within The diitria of Columbia. :
The blank in the 18th line Of the 1T
isss. fixes the period Of reiileucc in the
sliitrisf required to cnrislr Debtor to the
benefit Of the ata. This, on motion Of
Mir. Nicholloo, was filled with $ one
year.
Several other amendments were MADE
IN the different ietfion., on the motlonof
Mr.. .Nicholfon. The mott material OF
which crowded for the Liberation of con
fined debtor during tho vacation ct the
court by two or more jufices.
Ike committee proceeded TO the sd
Isttloa, which is as follows:
Sec. 3. And 5s il enated, That upon
The petioning debtors executing deed
10 the faid truaee conveying all his pro-
persy, real, perional and mixed, and all
his claims, rights and credits agreeably to
\ the oath or stsirmationof the faid debtor,
and on the delivery of all his faid proper
81 which he fhall have in his pohsiion,
ard his books, papers and evidences of
debts oSevery kind to the faid truaee, &
npcn tie iaid truitee's certifying the fame
% TIE court in writing, j, faall be lawful
for the court, to Older that the faid petit
oning debtor fha!l be discharged from all
de5is, .eovfnaats, ca1tfa17s, P'omySs and
agrrrme1ts, are from or efsciag Q, eonfratf-
ed b. bin tr;or fotbe date Of Tie Fad deed,
ard by virtue of fueh order. the faid debt
or fall be difcharsed as atorefaid: Pro-
e,iass, that no pesion who has been guilty
Of breach of4he laws, and who has been
fnel.or imprifonei for fuch breach fhall
be difsharged from the payment OF tuch
fine, .. f.om his imprisonment and fr0-
riasd iiRszpjs, that any property which
the debtor may hereafter acquire by gift,
.def,ent, or By bis own right by bequeif,
xdevife, os in any courfe of ditribution,
fhali be lisbe TO the payment of the faid
debts, any thing herein 10 the contrary
notwithstanding.
Which being read,
Mr.. Randolph obferved that by the
prcviEons of this fyEem, Ike bankrupt
fyGem was put in force not only as TO
merchants, bur as to every description OF
citizens. II extended 10 all perlons who
might migrate 10 this ianSfuary. II cpe-
rated in the nature of repeating law to
the laws of all the .aates. II woule alto
have the operation Of an ex psf jnf7o la7o.
If thefe objections fhould rot be aniwered,
he woeld be compelled to give his vote
againif the bill.
Mr.. Davis thought the so fcesion liza
bic to the objections of the gentleman from
Virginia. II extended the benefit Of, the
bankrupt fyaem TO the people Of this ter
ritory, in a manner different from that
which was extended to the citizens Of the
fares. Al however the fubjcts did not
appear 70 have been much refleeied on, he
moved that the committee fhould rife, and
ak leave to fit again.
MIR. Nicholfon .faid be 0lould make at
thattime, but little commenfoa the remarks
Of gentlemen oppoled TO the provifions OF
RE "a fiction. The principle involved IN
tie 81 fiction, was certainly an important
one. 1t would be well, he thought, for
the committee to exprefs their fenfe of it
before they role TO decide whether It
ihCu!d be retained or not. ltnot retained,
the Bill would require comfortable modif-
cation. He would, therefore, make few
eblerya ions on the princiele OF the fec
ton, in the hope thar the gentleman from
Kenfusky would vary his motion, and
move 10 lieu thereof 10 isri!le out the Sd
ietsion, 10 order 10 try the fenfe Of the
IIoufe.
Gsntlemcn were niaaksn wien they
copfdereti shis fiction as extending to the
citizens of this territory the benefits of
rhs Bankrupt fytRem. II they had been
20 extended, he could rot fee any fold
OBJECTION TO il. But the provisions were
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