Litchfield enquirer., 1829-05-21

who thought the legislature had no right to pass laws ObIiging men to keep any day but the Sabbath, a motion was made TOT the in- definite postpOnement of the bill.
 MT. Darling hoped the bill would not be ln- definitely postponed. He was not, however; l in favor of the bill. The practice handed down from our fOrefathers, of setuns aParJs { seasons of thanksgivings, &c. he n0Pe0 would be continued. But he thought there might be some alteration in the law wnlcn would better insure the observance OI tneSe days. Servile labor and recreation are pro l hibited. One part of the law was eAecu'e.' but the other was not. It js at aImOs' uni versal practice to spend thanksgiving aays m recreation, and he hoped some method Wou'a he devised tO enforce the execution or tne ] law as it respects this part of the PrOhlbl- l ton.
 After few remarks from other gentlemeIA inc motion for indefinite pOstpOnement " carried. & Friday Morning, Mag
 The committee on New Towns, rep
 favoraby, on the petitions of inhabitan 1 New-Preston, of Scotland, and of Willi% i tic. Reports accepted.
 Bill, that so much of the act passed in 1927, which provides that the Militia of this state do regimental duty once in two years. as re- lates to the infantry and cavalry, be repealed, read the second time, and referred to the Committee on the Militia laws.
 Bill, repeating part of the act of 1928, which relates to the choice of regimental of- fcers, referred to the committee on the Mi 1 litia laws. Petition of President Szc. of the Farming ton Canal Company, for an alteration in by laws, and for law regulating tolls, referred to the Committee on Banks.
 T Petition of the Connectiut River Company,
 for aid, referred to the Committee on
 Banks.
 Report of the Agents of Eagle Bank, read.
 The agents state, that since their la st re- } port they have redeemed Sl14.OOO of the pa } per then in circulation, and have cancelled a. ] bout S4O.OO0 of the debt due Lynde Catlln and that under the order of Judge ot ih a Superior Court, claims from holders of rG@ !. Z notes and bills were presented pre''"ns |" th : first of November, to the amount Ot S32O,o31 8 The petition of J. & D. Hinsdae, for the ben < } eft of the Iusolvent Act, was granted ny the . Superioy Court, in MiddIesex County in Oc I s tober last, and commissioners appointed, whC < E mel at New Haven in November, when tht 2 petitioners appeared before them to make disclosure and surrender their property. Al < t ter several days examination an adjournmen took place at the request of the petltloners to the 2d day June next. From the dis X closures already made. very little IS expec'e' from their efforts towards satisfying th6 claims of the bank. The claims of the baT# against Norman Dexter amount to upwaFq of $500, ,OOO, for which the bank are wlthoE
 any security. The claims against w. L. H1 l. ly are about S60O,OOO. A small part of Q Loo Sod hu lovv har H t and real estate, the title to which is, howe'e h clai.,,-l L.- navid Lnny- and suit IS no , '. pending to recover the same. Claims of W' 7 5 den,nity against the late President and CasP
 fer for mislnanagement of the funds of th bank, have been settled. Tine coinmittt
 state, that it is not in their power to stai , when this unfortunate concern will be cosrt . The fact tIIat several of the Judges ofthe Su . perior Court are interested in the concerns f the bank, caused some delay in business be . fore the court. The indebtedness of the ban
 is about $788,00O; the means for disI,argin , which are real estate, &c.. to the amount x about S5O,O0O. The debts due the han from the three principal debtors already men toned and others, are about $l, 100000. Mr. Jndscn said, before the report was ae cepted, he wished to ask the Agents one que, , t'on-whether they were paid by the yea or ny the job! Other banks that have far
  nave had their concerns closed up in fc'
 months, but these agents had been employee. Tor several years. and ifths repor, was accept ed, bill must he passed to- morrow to con
 t'nue them in their employment another year.
 lf the agents are negleciing their duty, (as he.
 beleveC) it should be known. Who the d -s
 gents were, he did not know-they might be
 his personal friends. He wished some meas
 ure devised to bring this business to close \.
 and for the present moved that the report hr3
 laid upon the table for the inspection of the,
 members Report accordingly lad upon the, table.
 Resolution by MT. Judson, for the appoin
 ment of a committee to inquire into the ex-' penses attending the military paradps on E-3 lection days, and into the expeCiiency of aboi-s ishing the same, passed. Resolutions. appointing Bennett Bronson chief judge, and Moves Darling and Jared Bassett, associate judges of the County Court for New Haven county: also.. appointing Wm. Eliot judge of probate for Guilford dis \ trct |; passed
 Bill torepeal certain statutes exempting fe- 1 males from imprisonment for debt, read the third time and passed. ] Saturday Morning, Mag 16.
 After the receipt ofa few petitions, and the z appointment of two or three committees, the a 1