Alexandria gazette, commercial and political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1812-1817, 1816-12-27
Virginia Legislature.
Saturday, Dec 81.

goes to star executions, 8'c. unless the !
party for whose benefit it is to be served,
agrees to take i'll payment, :. the charter
ed bank notes or bills of this state, the
chartered notes or bills Of the adjoining
States and the District of Columbia
thus pursuing the present law but with
out giving to the county courts the right
to say, what the foreign notes are worth
lin comparison with our own--this act to
continue in force till the lst day of Au-
gusts The lst day OF August" was
struck cut on Mr.. Banks's motion.
Some discussion took place as to the
proposition to give the same powers 70
the county courts as they now possess
This idea was advocated by Messrs.
Chamberlayne, Robertson, Of p. Tucker,
y. Thompson, of I. and opposed by Mr..
Banks the former on the ground that
GREAT iajustice would be done bg putting
foreign notes on the same footing WITH
our own, when they were generally 50
mgch below par; and that it was better
to give the courts the power to tx their
value. The last, Oh the gfonnd Of the
actual injustice, which had been done 5y
some of the courts, in Introducing great
inequalities IN tie value OF tie same pa
per, in different counties.
| No decision Was made Ga tbs point.
when Nfr. Eskill moved as substitute to
the bill itself, one which merely went TO
Z, continue in force the present laws, &c.
his idea being that it was best merely to
continue the present laws, with whose
Operations we were already acquainted.
/ ;lis substitute went 10 contiaue them till
the 18th OF December, l3i7--but on mo-
ton this Gay was struck out, and the time
,lettin blank.
Mir. Sianard brought forward differ
ent proposition, which was to exclude TO
! reign notes altogether from TIE bill. For
/ this motion he went into lone End ia
Igenious argument; expatiatine on tie
inequalities which had been produced I'M
der the present law by the tariff Of the
lcounty courts their tendency to Danish
the Virginia paper IRON circulation, and
TO substitute spurious foreign paper in
Those counties where it had been valued
at par with the Virg MIA paper.-Mr, S.
-Icentcnded, that Though the Virginia nctes
we're not in circulation in the western
lpagts of this state, yet they mi, hit be pro
lcu,cd by The people there because. in
IselIi.g their produce, they obtained a
higher price in the foreign paper, because
lofts depreciation, ard thus foreign paper
Knight be exchanged ia Alexandria or
baltimore for Virginia paper. &c. G5c.-.
Mr.J. 'fhompsoa, of I. supported this
|proposition.
| Mr., Banks objected to this proposition.
upon the ground. that there was not Fir-
Eginla paper enough ahoat, to answer the
Ecircuiation of the country, and therefore
debtors could not obtain it. If Mr.. Sta.
inard would SO niodiiy his motion as to
select cut of the chartered baaks of the
Eadioining states such as were supposed
to be nearly as.so!vent as our own banks,
he woHld accele to the amendment,
! Mr.. Stanarl's motion was lost without,
division.
Mr., Estiil's substitute was then adopt
ed without division.
When the committee rose, the house
accepted of the substitute-but on Mr..
BIackburn's motion, it was laid on the
table.
MIR, scett submitted the following re-
solution:
Resolved, That the thanks of the gene.
raj assembly OF Virginia, are due to idaJ.
Gavin l.. Corbin, who duriss the late
war between the United States and c.
Britain, CALAMITY she'd his blood at thel
head of a battalion of Virginia Militia,
lin defence of his native soil in Che me-
morabie attack upon Hampton, BY an O.
overwhelming British force.
Resolved, That the governor be and
he is hereby requested to forward to
Mai, Gavin l.. Corbin, copy of this
resolution, and to present to him an ap-
propriate sword as testimony of the
sense which the commonwealth entertainsi
of his merit
Mr.. Mercer OF l.. submitted the follow
ing resolutions:
Resolved, That the thanks Of the gene
ra! assembly of Virginia, are due to Iient.
col. Roger Jones, a native citizen of this
Commonwealth, fer The animated zeal.
and steady vaIour which he uniformly
displayed in the late war between thel
United States of America and G. BritainIc
in ali the most brilliant scenes, at which,
lie was present and wherever presentle
emineatiy distinguished,
and be It further resolved, That the 2