Litchfield enquirer., 1837-06-22
Laws of COmmectlcVlts PASSED MAY SESSION, 1857.
An Ac, h nddition to an Act oOncerning Banks.

Y Yenrssertatives in General Assembly convened, That the several Banks in this State, which by helr refusal redeem their bills and pay sher other debts iated their charters and have no legal sanction tor this proceeding, be and they are hereby continued. and the Acts Incorporating the said Banks, ana n Prouided hoDeUer That said Acts shall at all times be subject to be modified, amended and repealed by ths Legislature and provided also that said Banks shall in all respects comply with the provisions and TSque
 Sec. ,. Be it further enacted, That the incorporat cd Banks within this Stats be authorised to issue n9es
 for not exceeding one hundred dGat m ,bs notes of other incorporated Banks which are current n Ss.od I
 cities of N York and Boston, which notes so ssN1a shall be at all times receivable a;d at P R.nk subject to inc conditions herein specified, VIZ: Anyse w 1 hnn whose capital stock paid in does not exceSu "'T n bs ded thousand dollars S may y,sr sipe eer notes or bills in ;rcI ion ShalI not exceed seventyhve per eentum If the;r capital paid in Those whose caP!at SIOcA paid in shall exceed so S~o hundred thousand dollars
 ov ;ss,,e an amount in the notes aforesaid, Whlcn
 R their other notes or bills in circulation shall not Those Banks whose capital stock paid Tn exceeds two Hundred thousand dollars and not exceeding three hundred thousand dollars, may issue as atoresalo' notes, which with ther other notes or Q. I; @ n stock actually paid in. Those Ba1ks whose eaPita stock paid in exceeds three hundred thopsand dollars and does not exceed six hundred thousana doa.s may issue bills as aforesaid to amount which with thei1 other notes and bills in circulation shall not exceeu forty-iye per cenurn on their capital stock actualy paid in. And all other Banks whose capsat SHOCK ,nay issue notes as aforesaid which with helr other notes and bills in circulation shall not exceed forty per eentum the amount of thelr capital actua.y ny paid iri All of which notes shall be negotiable by de livery and payable to obearerProUided That the des, cripon of notes herein authorized to be issued and made payable in other notes as aoresaid shall not at any time exceed three tourhs ot the whole amount oi the circulation of such Bank.
 Sec. 8 This act shall continue in force until the rising of the General Assembly in May next, durng
 which uerod it shall not be lawful for any Banks III tbs State nor for any officers or agent of any such Rank directly or indirectly to se dispose o or part with their spece or gold silver buion or any pa!t thereof belonging to such Bank or Banks as prel'
 Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That all the Banks of this State that shall avail themselves ol tne o this act pRy fs the Banks in the cities of New York and Boston small nave re- eumed specie payments.
 Sec. 5 And be it further enacted, Iaat M any an their respective bills issued by virtue or tnS AcI III specie, after the Banks in the cities of New York ana Boston shall have spscs adI ns v days thereafter such Banks shall De deemed lo na'e forfeited their charters. v ,,,.. ..
 Sneaker of the House ot Representatives
 Approved, June 10, 1887. n
 An Act to suspend e operation ofhe Act entitled "An
 Act to prohibt Me circulation of small BAs, passed
 1885. .,
 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre- sentatives in General Assembly convened, That the Act passed May session, 1885, entitled An Act 10 prohibit the circulation of small bills be and the same is hereby suspended unal the nrst gay od oGy which time refusal on the part of any Bank n tnls State to pay in specie on demand it's notes or bills oi
 s mn than thref ROL aOas sa sa
 Sec. 3. From and aaHr the first day of July. 1858 no Bank or Corporation having Banking powers m this Sate shall issue or Tn any manner put n e,rcua w less denomination than five dollars; and any such corporation violating the provisions ot this seenon. shall be subject tothe penalties. restraints toIietnIes and provisions, Of the fourth sec'lon of the act named in the 3d secti0n of this bill.
 See a It shall moi be lawful for any person to pay, give or offer in payment or in any way circulate, or atnernpt to circulate money at any tune after sad rst day of July, ls3a within this State any b note cr other evidence of debt, purpornng to be issued by any body corporate, of denomination less than nVe dolars- See. 4 Any person offending against the prOvis- inns of the frd section of fhis Ac shall forfeit tor ev cry offence five times the nominal value of any such bL note other evidence ot deb, to be recovered with costs of suit the and for the use of any person who shall for the and prosecute such snit 10 judgment in any Court having cognizance 1herecf. Sec. 5 Nothing in ttis Act shall be so construed as 10 raty or confirm the charter of any Bank which may have fgrfeiied the by the refusal to pay specie o for any other cause
 Speaker of the House of Represeniahves
 EBEsEzEE sToDpssp, Preaident of the Senate.
 Approved. June l0s lsMa r,,r.pns AnAet in addition 10 an Act entitled an Acs for the
 regulation of Civil Aetions"
 SEC. 1. Be If ezacssd by the Eenase and House of Representations General AsseabLy convened. That ID all cases when suit for against copartDershp s commenced and the names of the several copartnen, plaintiffs or defendants. not known shall be law fm for such suit to be commenced by the company name Of the Plaintiff Defendants, and the Plano Plaintiffs shall have the right within the three first days of the Court which such writ is re.urnabe, to amend the same without cost by inserting the names of the several persons composing such copartnership
 SEC. 2 fftle Plaintiffs in any action brought as aforesaid shall insert the name Of any person de- fendant upon whom service of the writ had not been made or if the defendant or defendants, upon whom service hath been made, shall plead in abatement the ononder of any other person or persons as de- fendants; or if such defendant or defendants upon whom service hath been made, his her. or their attor- ney, shall in court make affidavit that there is an0th person other persons than those named defen dants in the plaintiffs writ belonging to the partner ship against which the action is brought, the court
 may, n the plaintiff plaintiffs do not take issue upon such plea in abatement deny the truth of such a- davit, continue the the next term and issue process of summons or attachment under the hand of the Clerk othe Court against such person persons, returnabe before said court at its next ter to make such person or persons parties to such action, which process shall be served agreeaby to the law regulat- persons having been duly served with such process, shall be considered and treated parties to said ac- ton in the same manner as if the plaintiffs writ had have the same right to plead in abatement or to make any other plea motion, which they would have had if they had been originally made parties to the action