Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1843-03-25
The following is Mr.. JAcKsoN's Curren
cy Bill, as II passed the Legislature:

III PreVeht "iegai banking, and 10 suppress
the circulation Of small notes, and other
deprecated paper currency, within the
limits Of this State.
Be ii enacted by The General AxsembM Of
the STATE of Missouri:
j. From and after the first day of Jnlv.
N the year 843, no corporation, cofporaie
body, or body polite. within the limits of
this State, (the Bank of the State of Mia.
sour and its Branches, incIusive.) nor any
money broker, or exchange dcalpr, shall
pass or receive, within the limits of this
State, any bank note or other paper cur
rency of any kind, promising or ordering
the payment of money, or other thing, Of
less denomination than IS, nor OF less
than ten dollars, from and aC
ter the first day of January, in the wear
1914.
2. From and after the first day Of july,
in the year l843, no corporation, corporate
body, or body polite, within the limits Of
this State, (the Bank Of the State Of Mis-.
souri, and its Branches, nclusive,) nor any
money broker, or exchange dealer, shall
pass or receive, within the limits of this
State, any suspended or non specie paying
bank note, or post notes, issued as curren-
cy.
All contracts and transactions whatever.
made by any corporation, corporate BODY,
or body polite, Ohe Bank Of the State Of
Missouri and its Branches, incIusive,) or bv
any money broker, or exchange dealer,
within the limits of this State, founded up
on loans or payments made in such prohib-
tied notes or currency, after the respective
days limited for the circulation Of the same
in the two preceding sections Of this act,
shall be null and void, and of no force or eff.
feet in any court in this State.
4. From and after the taking efiec, Of
this act, no corporation, corporate body, or
body polite, within the limits of this State,
the Bank Of the State of Missouri and Its
Branches, exceptedD shall exercise any
banking privileges, either by issuing notes,
or any species OF paper currency whatev-
er, or by receiving money on deposite, or
by discounting notes, bills, or bonds. or by
dealing in exchange, or by lending or COL
Letting money, or by doing any other bank
ing business whatever, and all enactmenis
and clauses in any charter, or in any act of
incorporation, supposed, or purporting 10
confer such banking privileges, or any one
OF them, on such corporation, corporate
body, or body polite, Ohe Bank Of the
State of Missouri and its branches except
ed,) are hereby declared to be contrary to
the constitution of this State, and null and
void, and all acts done, and contracts made
by virtue OF any such supposed privilege,
after the passing of this act, by any such
corporation, corporate body, or body polite
(the Bank OF the State OF Missouri and its
Branches exceptedO shall be null and void,
and no court in this State shall admit or en-
force the same.
S. All officers and members Of any cor
pora!ion, corporate body, or body polite,
within the limits Of this State, (the
officers and members of the Bank of
the State of Missouri and its branches in
clusive,) offending in their official capacity
against any of the provisions OF this act i.
shall be subject to fine Of five hundred
dollars, upon indictment and conviction, for
every such offence, one half 10 the pros
ecutor in the case, and the balance to the
use of the State.
6. The charters Of all corporations, cor
porate bodies, and bodies polite. within the
limits of this State, (he Bank of the State
of Missouri and its branches incusve) vic.
lating or evading any Of the provisions OF
this act, shall be forfeited tor any such vio-
lation or evasion, and the fact OF such for
fixture, or any violation or evasion OF this
act, or any part Of this act, may be plead
in bar to any suit brought by them, or any
Of them, and if denied, the trial of the
question of such forfeiture, or evasion, or
violation shall be adjourned, under the di.
rection OF the court, and a change OF venue
awarded upon the application Of the defen-
dant, or defendants, to some county in
which such corporation, corporate body, or
body polite is not situated.
7. Any money broker or exchange deal.
er within the limits Of this State, who shall
violate or evade any of the provisions Of
this act, shall be subject to the same penal.
ties as are now prescribed by law for fol-
lowing such business without license, and
shall moreover be subject to fine OF not
less than one thousand dollars, upon indicl-
ment and conviction, for every such Of
fence, one half TO 60 to the prosecutor in
the case, and the balance TO The use of the
State.
8. The provisions OF this act shall not be
so construed as 10 prevent the Bank OF the
State Of Missouri, or its branches, from dis
posing OF the deprecated paper Of other
banks now on hand, provided the same
shall not be put in circulation IN this
State.
0. Nothing in this act contained shall be
so construed as 10 prevent any sheriff, cor.
oner, or other collecting officer from recclv-
ing any money or bank note paper, that
the plaintiff himself in any suit would have
liberty to receive, when said plaintiff shall