Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1817-02-04
To tie Editor ofthe Enquirer.

.chen the Legislature VIII adiourn-moSt pro-
baby rot sooner than Monday week.
To tie Editor IF tie EngG,rr
RICHMOND, January goth, 1877.
From The report of legislative proceed
inss, which appeared in Tic Compiler and
Enquire OF this morning, il would natu-
rally be inferred, that the clerk OF the
Court OF Appeals, and OF the Superior
Court OF Ciiancery for tie Richmond
District, had alone failed 10 comply with
ne a % the ia>t 50 $50 ;, req ing c r il
clerks, III office, to exccrfe bonds, OH or
before The fast day Of November last.
The fact is, that there is no evidence that
amy of the clerks, embraced by that law,
had complied with lis iniunctions by the
frsi day of November. The failure of the
clerks AT this place, l well know, did not
arise from any contempt for the Legislature,
or the courts, but from firm conviction,
that the legislature never did intend, that
men who held offices during good beharior,
and who had complied with all the re-
quisites OF the law, at the time of their
acceptance and qualification, should be
DISTINGUISHED, merely from AN unwilling
ness to involve their friends, without OBJ
vious necessity, or, perhaps, from an ina
bIiity 10 perform conditions subsequently,
imposed. In this opinion, they thought
they were supported, not only from /, view
OF the act Itself, but by tie advice of the
most eminent counsel, on the construction
OF that act. For ii will be remarked, that
while the law tie last session, expressly
declares that future clerks appointed to
these. Offices, falling 10 comply with its
conditions, shall forfeit their offices, it is
perfectly silent as 10 existing clerks. If
we have formed an erroneous Judgment
OH this subject, we are not alone. Ii is
well known thatiihe most able men wide
~ differ in opinion, on the point.
WI. w HENiNG.
~ Death has lately down several OF our citi-
zens-Mr Claiborne Chew, vi The firm OF Stanar6 &.
Chew. died suddei, on Wednesday iast rap.
tnr OF bioodvcssei-on Saturday Mr. Renj Wolfe au
ola resident ofths CRY brrg.tsd mis- iastOn SUNDAY
Nj J'Lu IL Royscr, OF The House Register & walls
expired These vsitations dstTessing and gloomy
- Severl VI. s S. on hand viii be attended
TO in Onr next.
~ In MIR. MarshalPs speech 81 par. last line
bat one, Will OF Diqjorify' is erroneously
printed for g will OF "a eiiaOrity."
szr:.,..ssssze:.:.s rssseswsuSra
E'oa SALT grand piano forte | eight day clock ;
e iron chest.
Enquire vi
THOMAS WHITE Co.
,t-1,,atN - 6D-4w
EyTANTtD-Thrceor four JoHrReysae1. If4fkers TO
w whom iibefalwagcs wi'i be given.
Apply to tie subscriber within four miles Of Lynch
burg
VIZ. RABoRG.
tebrlary a. S9-2t-
sTiFrY DOLLARS REwARD.-Rumauay from The
subscriber the sll of September last two negro
men slaves, Harrison s Jim.
HrrJ7s-P calls himself Harry anderson : he is 30
or Fl ears Of age five feet eigtt inches high
ne is very bright muIatto full in the iace-when spo
Rem to statiiners very much in his speech, two OF
threc of BIS fore teeth Inclined TO he decayed he has
very strait hair for muatso-aIso. well as Tecol
Iect mad scar on the right side OF his face not
pereeiv2bc without strict examination tile said fell
low raised in Abeuasle eountY near Warren here
ne has number Of acquaintance. ny the information
have oitared since they their escape, I expect
they have gone 20 Kentncky Tenuessecan also they
iiad nee pass, and wiiiattenpt pass free men
Ji'H calls himself JRmeS JlcksOn - years of
age ave ieet three or four inches igh perfectly black
anh mas large the of his face ocrasi
onsh ny bifi, soms"hat bOw-lcgged when spoken to
sarcs ca III tie face he is spy active fellow ~ ANY
IN the State lie sold at nian Fields in ihr corn.
~ Of YORK bY SIR. Thomas Mufjer, Mr. Nicholas e-
IS OF Albe;nale county. IN TIE year lie said fell
low mas resided ~ Bnckingan count. nearly opposite
warren, 3 or gears he the rfnpers of Mrs Sa-
TIh Perkins at that time. Br pcc he has made an
attcinpttO Kent1csy Tennessee ~ Re rms brrn
gone such length of tips, s.d been heard Of
snce he made his 1t is bat what they
have nee pass, and vii attempt pass as free men.
wiligve the above for both Of them or twenty
I've dollars for eitles delivered me in Fluvsna corn
", near C""mpa, of secured IL any jail tha get
them again.
February !. saw2ws