Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1819-11-19
RICHMOND, NOVEMBER 10.
To THE Ec:roR OF THE ENQUIRER.

TO THE Ec;roR OF THE ENQUIRER.
oiR-Pefm't me to suggest through The me-
dinm OF Your paper TO the gentlemen co,npo..
ing the General Assembly of Virginia the
propriety of amending our Execution laws
and OF passing some law or laws for the relief
OF the people at this moment of EN- Embarrassment
aad distress. The amendments 1 would pro.
pose to the Execution laws are-frst That
property OF a certain description should not
he subject 10 Execution at all ; nor should ia
he required that il should he rendered i'm the
schedule OF aninsolveut debtor such rs housa-
hold furniture to certain extent, or with
proper Limitations; necessary beasts and uten-
Sis tor farming; n tradesman's tools. A prOfes-
slonal mans books aud Instruments necessary
clothing, &c. I'd. That the I'd section of the
. Act TO amend an act, to continue and amend
an act Tor further CONTINUING. and amending
the act entitled an act for reducing into one
the several acts concerning executions asd
Tor the relief ct insOivent debtors - passed
January 18th, 1907. I'D Rev. code. 1871, be re-
pealed. Sd. That the prison rulss he enlarged
from ten To AN hundred acres, more or less
4th Sundry regulations are made by law for
quashing executions where they improperly
issue, &c. bnt before they can lie Quashed.
the money bias often to he paid in the recess of
the court, aud often at great sacrifice Let
the law be 50 amenied rs to give the udge if
me execution issues from The Superior Court.
or one or more magistrates If from county
courts, have jurisdiction over the subject in
recess; say let The judge hear motions to
gnash execution upon an ASST sument OF error,
by an attorney. aud on aStiiavits -due notice
thereof being given to the plaintiff or ms at
torney, AID let any order the indge NAV make
stand like decree nis, good until cause be
shewh 10 the court in session, why ii should be
set aside
feel confiIentihe situation Of the country
demands AT the hands of the Legislature some.
thing like repievy law. From the limited
Information have been able to attain on the
SUBJECT OF tie pecunIary embarraSsments of
the people throughout the commonw ealth |
can venture TO assert, times have not been so
nara ana so distressing for twenty wears if
indeed they have ever been aul call more
seriously for the interpositiou OF the iesisia.
ture than they ever did before. am aware
IL may he sad the Legislature will be in want
OF plausible excuse that the country is
In state of peace. But let il be answered
although We are not in a state of war, the late
war IS the remote cause of the present asto-
u shlng embarrassments. During the late war
HOsds OF bank paper were thrown into circu-
iaBon, great proportion of which was bot
toned OH little or no capital, credit rose in
propo'tIsR TO the means OF acquiring this
hciiiious substitute fer money none WAS
afraid 10 trust and none afraid IN 90 i'm deb,
when the day OF payment came, ii was easy 20
throw note into bank, and obtain thai which
would sausil lAe dent. Thus was encourage
Inent glvta to TIE most uubourdei prodiga atty
IN trade AMI speculation Pu, " ne i,rtid,. M a
sh t sighted people! l'he sudden transition
u m tate OF war 10 st.te of peace, the re-
sunpt on 81 specie payments by the bal X and
cooSrgu HtcsncnIrlt7nts rryc prod &c al an . bib
tide, aSunparraeied as the food y h ch preced-
ii have lunged many from competency to
beggary. and rear will u,se many TO drink The
water ct bitterness the Balance OF their DAYS
believe the people were never more i'll de M
ihan al presentand money neverso scarce add
To tins the almost universal Throughout the
state failure of the crops thus the people are
hiteriy bercavedo of the ordinary means OF COM
plting with their contracts or paying their
debts.
| this he The fact, is il not proper tine far
the Legislature 10 interpose its helping hand.
until tnHes aud circumstances NAV change
Tor the better Tfor worse weinay trust in an all
wise providence, they will not be What way
is the Legislature TO eschew this evil! Let the
act he revived passed in November, 1914
concerning executions and for other purpos-
eS = there might clause he added, that if
property would not sell tor sucb part of its
value, no sale should take place in any event.
Snch laws have frequently passed TO prevent
the great sacrifice of property, and if ever
they were necessary they are so now at time
wien The most saleabe property will not sell
for one fourth Gifts vaine, because there is
no money III the country to buy il with
L make these crude suggestions i'm order
that the subject may be takenEip and consider
ed of, and indeed should bs gratified to see it
written about with more ability, and more
IN detail, Tor in many points of view, / consider
IL great aud important subject.
a NORTH WESTERN VIRGINIAN