Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1829-02-03

scheme, which, in Its operation, will inevitably
tend to discolour and peivert the decision
OF The important principles to be settled by the
Convention. Yes, sir, the duties that body will
be OF that delicate, imposing, and lofty character,
which includes the sum of human rights, and
which authorizes them to establish rules, and set
tie doctrines, affecting liberty and property-iiie
itself and every thing which makes human en-
istencc desirable. By adopting district system,
we viii free the members OF the Convention from
those minute. local considerations, which again
repeat have excited unhappily too much influence
here. We may thus, too, consult economy as re-
CARDS the number OF that body; above ALL by
eni,rging the sphere of selection. (Which ought
10 be bounded only by the limits Of the common
wealthy shall be likely tosecure great share Of
the talents & abilities so initspensbiy necessary in
this momentous crisis, and which think no county
system Is likely so eminently to effect.
HOUSE OF DELEGATES.
Saturday Jan 3l.-A communication was re-
ceiVed from the Senate, that they had passed the
bills Providing for the extension of the kanawha
turnpike Road to Big Sandy River'-and Con-
corning Thomas Rutherfoord'
On motion of MIR. White of Rockbrlge, the
Committee Of Roads and Internal Navigation had
leave to sit during the session of the House.
On MIR. Doddr;dge's motion, the bill 9 For the
PARTITION OF lands in certain cases. was taken up
with the amendments of the committee; these a
mendments were agreed TO; the said bill was then
amended by way OF substitute, on motion of Mr.
May, and ordered 10 be read third time.
The following eng ossed bills were read third
time and psssed:-l. Concerning the possessoning
oil lands i'll the Isle Of Wight'-2. To amend and
explain an act to raise a sum of money by lottery
| TO connect the Staunton and James River Turn
pike with the Kanawha Road, at or near its Eas-
tern termination, passed March 0, lS27'-3. TO
prescribe the II ode of paying public monies into
and out of the Treasury 4. Amending an act
entitled An act to revive and amend the act emit
tied an act tor cutting navgable canal from Nam
semond River 10 Somerton Creeks. Concern
ing ferrymen.-6. 10 authorize VIM. Weaver TO
construct a turnpike road from Bath Iron Works
TO Strcklers Srrngs.-?. Concerning the sal ary
OF the copying clerk to the Executive'-S. 80 a.
mend an act entitled an act to authorize lottery
and the sale OF certain lots in the town of Ports
mouth'-9. Concerning tho town OF Liberty in
| Bedford county,
| The bill to prescribe the mode for paying the
money into and out of the Treasury, gave rise to
| some debate:
MIR May moved 10 fixed the penalty OF the Ire :
surer official ond at $500 900, stating. however,
| his own opinion 10 be, that $4,000 would be am
| ply sufficient; but the change in the law, pro-
posed to be made by the bill, was but an expert.
| ment, he had proposed larger sum than he
| thought absolutely necessary. Mr.. Miller OF
| Powhatan, concuIred with Mr. Nav and stated
| that the Treasurer OF the United States received
aud paid every year more than twenty millions OF
dollars; whilst the penalty OF his bond was but
$4,000; yet one dollar Of the public money had
never been diverted from its appropriate object.
A.
greed to. The period of confinement in the Pen
itentiary, for the offence of counterf ting erasng
&c, any order, check, certificate, &c of the Au-
ditor, &c. was fixed at not less than ten nor more
than twenty years. The question then occur red
upon the passage OF the bill.
+ MIR. Mayo said, he was in favor of providing all
proper security for the public mcaey but was on
posed to the passage Of the bill, because, if he un.
dersood It's provisions, strangers, having busines So
at the Treasury, would be subjected to great trou-
bic and inconvenience. Every man having to
receive even the sum of rs Cd would be compe H.
ed to run TO and fro, from the Treasury TO the
Bank and back again, &c. before he could receive
his money. Besides, il ought 10 be recollected
that the banks had holydays, and that in conse.
quence, strangers would often be detained in tow n
whole days But, without reference 10 holydavs-
business Is daily closed at the Banks at 3 O'Clock:
and stranger who had engaged his passage in a
stage, and being detained till after bank hours
would be obliged TO wait and incur the expense OF
a longer detention in town, &c. Mr.. NJ objected
to the amount OF the security required from the
treasurer: he would not, he said, require security
in half million of dollars, when the State could
never be subjected to the loes of even 500. He
did not like the huctuating policy of the LegisIa
lure IN conferring, at one time, all confidence up
on the Treasurer, and, at another, withdrawing ALL
lie again insisted upon the Inconvenience oil
transdctng business at the Treasury, in the mode
prescribed by the bill, and expressed his convic-
tion that members themselves would feel this in.
convenience before the close Of the session
MIR. Duncan moved the indefinite postponcn nj
OF the bill. think, said he, if this bill pass the
Treasury will cease to be Treasury Wby keen
up the office Of Treasurer, Why cannot the Audi
tor transact all the business? / believe the Virgi.
MIA banks to he as solvent any in the Union: bu
banks hare failed, and the Virginia banks mn,
fail If the banks should fall the State will lose
all its funds. The more | examine this BILL the
less like il. tits ugly little thing; the more
look at H. the less like it, I hope it will be in
definitely postponed.
Mr. May said, that no evil could result from
that bill, which might not arise under the exist
ing laws Of the land. The Bank of Virginia hav.
/, ing given large bonus TO the State was upde,
its charter entitled to the deposit of the public
money; the Treasurer bad no right to keep il else
1 where. The change proposed by the bill wa,
merely that tie public debtor, instead of paying
the moneyto the Treasurer, shonld pay il at once
, into the baDk.-But said he, the Inconvenience o.
transscting business in this NODE is objected to by
the gentleman from Henrico. What is the incon.
: venence OF going from the Capitol TO the Banka-
~ The stranger is to take his passage in stage Ia
D must 20 to the Main street.-The stages do no
3 come to the Capitol. We have heard much of the
public crib, but there is public stable to keet
the horses. The gentleman says the banks have
T. hoiydays, &c. and that they daily closed at
O'Clock, &c.--so is the Treasury office closed a
the same hour. But suppose the Bank should BIZ
I closed, would the stranger, holding Treasur,
: check, find any difficulty in getting the money
Y for IL? Would not any in Richmond who had
{. money, receive it!--The bill. said Mr. NJ. ia de
signed 10 prevent any individual from misapplyipl
. the public money, and he thought the public in
e terest and public morals woUld be promoted by III
passagc---Tfat scheme, he said, was not netc; i
was the system which had been adopted at III,
Treasury Of the United States, and from which M
9 evil had ever resulted. We had heard mucl
I about he II f,e Eederai