Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1843-04-04

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Clerk s fees on forthcoming bonds, 81 %
Sheriff $ tee for serving %!it, %
Same for taking forthcoming bond, 90
Attorney fee on original Judgment, ~
Same on Judgment delivery bond, ~
Sheriff s Ice Tor notices on delivery bonds w
Entering defendants attorney in original sat, 81
Order, iee
Plea, 10
''i is '''S' 'O''"'''''''' :" 30
shnr;a..s o,n,,;ss;o, =, second udgment, = so
u.t;nc i ~ sf ,s,a, costs. Sis Is
To wE;ch must be added Tor Defendant a"ot- on
ney fee,
SIS 10
Thus !. is apparen. tina, whea sui, IS brought upon
a bond of fifty Jo1cs aud IS CARED thfoush '"e ''.
and costs of legal proceedings III the county court
without impaaneiling Jury summoning witness,
the defendant discharges the debt by paying seventy
three dollars and orlysX cents, instead 81 SOU eAc'a
sve OF interest
and collection OF debt OF fifty dollars IN the same
lime as BY virtue OF sun in the county court, WI
probably tot exceed three dollars, certainly not ive
dollars costs unless there be cou.r"veisy as TO 'e
Justice OF the debt, when as IN SUIT IN Inc county
court the costs would be more than nave estihd'eu
apueal then TO the sense OF Justice IN tins House
10 It's representative Obligations, and IT'S pa'fiosihau
appeal especially 10 the lIberality and E'agnahn'y VI
my professional associates, sent hher oy co"hu'hg
constituents to represent them and their INTERESTS 10
come boldly and cheefuy TO the rescue, ana parilc-
pate in the honor of passing thus important measure OF
Yeiset and Of justice.
KTMARKs OF MR HoPKiSs, IN reply 10 NessrS Cr@eh'
fefd and Daniel:
MIR HopkISs said the bill had been prime paliy ut
tucked upon the ground that IL an ,anorat0A upon
the long established usage and law OF Virginia. Now,
Mr. Speaker thus has always been the slereotyped OBJ
lection great and good measure which, IN all
ayes of the world and every civilized country, has
been introduced for the aneloraton o! the condition
of man. When the celebrated "magna charta was
proclaimed in England, 1t was denounced as an ta"o-
cation When Thomas Payne wrote ms numbers oil
:. Common Sense he ;nct with the cry oi taaora-
nm When the Declaration oil Independence was
announced 1t vilhed as an act OF starting taho
caton The Revolutionary war itsnIt was soemy de-
nounced bv the Of that day, as aa0cdo" and re-
bslltoa When The bill repeating tGe lass OF pfin"ge
niture and of entail was passed ny the Virginia Legs
la,ure 1t too met with tins same charge OF "&0f"
ioa And, finally, without multiplying other exam
PIES when the bill OF Religious Freedom was enacted
the same cry of innovation heard IN plant'e notes,
throughout the country SIR, would gentlemen nave
us 10 stem the current D! Improvement instead oil oa
;,r a,no imam the onward streams of truth and free
dom: II So Kings, Emperors and Despots may revei
IN their ili-goen power and man remain forever the
victim of ignorance corruption, oppression aud tyranny
Yes Mr. Speaker this bill does propose an tnHGrat0n
IA our Judicial syem, and go ior It as Saeh, because
- s dcsirned 10 beneft The multitude, by bringing JUS
tice to every door "ic'ttoaf money ana V.Mo"t
,,rics The gentleman from Spottsy lvunta, (hlT
Cru,chfeld) not satisfied with the argumen, Of lano
cation urged another objection 10 the bill, that II
did not come from the Committee OF Courts OF Jus
tice Now, Mr.. Speaker, the friends OF tins measure
must have been guilty oil the most gorgeous FOLLY, u
they Ind consented to send this subject to the Com
miitce for Courts oil Justice. Tia; Committee, as
YOU know, SIR, is composed entirely OF lawyers, ana
they are nearly unanimous in this House against the
measure-it would have been "eonamttere dgh"m f"Po
Ant Sir il matters not from what Committee the bill
came. The only question Is, shall the jurisdiction OF
SINGLE Justices be extended in cases OF written ev-
dences of debt, 10 fifty dollars Or, TO change The
form Of the question: shall the cost Of recovering and
collecting debt Of fifty dollars, be reduced from
,,nsn,y three TO three dollars nos Tue bill IS stuff
c;ap,v Guarded and siltuiY drawn TO be put IN cpe
r,,on-I mean the substitute proposed and offered by
,ha Gentleman from Jefferson, Mr.. Gaater) II has
some ririei perhaps very lew '"poTidnt detects oa'
), il not now ageadaJe, aud we must therefore choosf
10 take it as il s or REJECT II acse'hef, rof one
.anno, hesitate between these alternatives. shall
mic for !, most observation-disclosures while 1t "'l'
,onb,less affect illufioasy my professional interest,
vet !; produces general g00a ia ~hch my constituents
IRE interested and should be fccreant TO The sacred
trust with which they have noHo''a me- whenever
have asked it. if could lose ght OF my representa-
tr, oJipatioa. to them in the gnoble Promptlngs OF
A LarlerS raia.
NJ, Soeaker-ls this time, when the severest pc
uniary embarrassment and distress prevail over the
conn,ry-waen money is observation-disclosures great
n,;cae reduced and productions dminshed-wien
Confidence between rred;o. and debtor destroyed. By
Bankrupt Laws and threatened Stay Laws-wheh Ii'-
cation is multiplying, and the means OF paying oe
Gaming less and less accessible and at.ainab'e when
,ddonal taxation is necessary, to uphold Inc iath
md honor of the State---'s this, say, Mr. Speaker
, time for us hesitate in granting every :'at aho
substantial relief the power OF the Government, 10
, generous but Suffering people No, SIR for
one mean to forget st, aud every sesh temPtaf'oh
N the remembrance of the public distress, and with
the vt,w Of promoting the pabtc rood Hence,
hsye endeavored, by all the means IN M power, TO
hasten tbs close Of the present session OF the ueneTa
Assembly and thereby, To cat OF parton OF 'he pun
lie OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, introduced resolution, 10
diminish the pay of all officers and agents ct tue Go
vernmen. t,rtnfy ptr cont, which would nave saved
gone thirty or forty thousand doafS-hehct, aGVo
Gated the proprie:y of abollshng forthcoming '0hds
and substituting plain, simple money ohn&i"'"F' Ia
lieu Of them, having the force OF judgments, ana pro
vdinn Tor collections upon them at the least possible
costs which according 10 the calculation OF the gen
tleman from Prince William, (Nr. BrawneFO mace
upon authentic data, would have saved, upon me
number of iuda meu:s and DEGREES rendered ias year,
more than four hundred thousand doliaFs-ahd hehce'
| shall vote for this bill, which IN every SUIT upon
bond of fifty dollars, carried TO the extent oil law,
will save 10 the unfortunate and distressed ueoio'
about t;resty doiiars IN costs-a sum- whcn' III 'a
iorty Of mstances-nay, IN almost every "s'""oe "
sipue SUIT w,'l be more than sufficient 10 pay nus
taxes did not vote for a Stay Law, Mr. Speaker
for reasons which fully prepared ana ANXIOUS
20 express, but which was prevented from oohe' aS
well as O; ,ers, by call for the previous qnesuo"'-
OIL gentlemen from Richmond, Mr.. DanIeiO has al
tackled this bill, because, he says, it is part and
narcel Of The STAY Law scheme and aims IN nsldous
blow a, the Obligations Of conrac's-ihai' at least
impairs lhe obligations OF contracts, because u pro-
yides that no execution shall be issned upon Judgments
rendered b. virtue of it, within four months IRON the
date of the Judgment without requiring any secn''.y,
Now. Mr. Speaker is little remarkable, That tha'
gentleman should feel much horror al %hat ne sup