Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1844-04-20
VOL
The Currency Bills.


Be it enacted BY the General Assembly of
the State Of Missouri, as follops;
Sec. l. No person shall pass or offer
to pass, or receive or offer TO receive, any
bank notes or paper currency, within the
limits of this State, after the first day of
March 1889, of less denomination than
five dollars; after the fourth day Of July,
1889, of less denomination than ten dol
lars, and after the first day of March, 1910,
of less denomination than twenty dollars,
except the ten dollar notes Of the bank Of
the State Of Missouri.
Sec. 2. No person shall pass or offer to
pass, or receive or offer to receive, any
bank note or paper currency, payable after
date, commonly called post notes, after the
first day of March, 1880.
| Sec. 3. No person shall pass or offer to
pass, receive or offer to receive, any bank
note or paper currency, issued by any
bank, generally reputed and believed to be
non-specie paying bank, after the first
day of March, 1889.
Sec. 4. No person shall pass or offer to
pass, receive or offer to receive, any bank
note or paper currency, purporting to be
issued by the President, Directors and
company Of the bank of the United States,
after the first day of March, 1889.
Sec. S. No person shall establish any
agency. or any branch of any bank Of
another State, or Territory, or Of the Dis
trict of Columbia, after the first day Of
March, 1889; nor shall any person who
may have heretofore established such
agency or branch of any bank, continue
the same in existence after the first day Of
March, 1889.
Sec. 9. No money broker or exchange
first day of March, 1889, without license
from the clerk of The county court of the
county in which said business is to be
transacted for that purpose. The tax on
sad license shall be one thousand dollars
annually, and shall be paid to the collector
of the revenue for the use of the State.
The license shall be granted on the presen-
tation of the receipt from the collector for
said tax. An occasional buying and selling
bills of exchange, shall not constitute a
broker or exchange dealer within the mean
ing of this act.
Sec. 7. Every person who shall pass
or offer to pass, or receive or offer to re-
ceive, any bank note or paper currency,
contrary to the provision of this act, shall
be liable for the contents Of such note or
paper currency. and - per cent. dam
ages on the amount thereof, and the person
injured may recover the same before any
tribunal having Jurisdiction Of the amount,
on notice and motion; and he may call on
the opposite party to testify on oath in
regard to the matter, and in case of his
refusal may testify himself, but no answer
so obtained shall be given in evidence on
any indictment for the same offence.
Sec. 8. Every person who shall pass or
offer to pass, or receive, or offer to receive,
any bank note or paper currency contrary
to the provisions Of this act, shall be in
dicted and fined not less than - dollars.
Sec. 9. Any agent, or broker, or ex-
change dealer, for violating any provision
of this act, shall be indicted and fined not
less than ten thousand dollars.
Sec. 10. In case of violations of this
act by any incorporate bodies, the Presi
dent, directors, and cashier of said bodies,
or any one Of them, shall be liable as in
case of private individuals.
Sec. IL. Every person required to be
licensed by the laws Of this State, after the
first day of March, 1889, shall, before he
can be licensed to exercise his trade, call
ing. business, or profession, take an oath
that he will not knowingly violate the pro-
visions of the act to regulate the currency,
or suffer any agent or clerk of his to do so.
Every such person, violating the provis-
ions of this act, shall on conviction forfeit
his license and be considered guilty of per-
jury and punished accordingly.
Sec. IL. Every person who shall violate
any provision of this act. after the first
day of March, 1889, shall be ineligible TO
any public Office in this State, and every
public officer who shall violate any pro-
vision of this act, after the first day Of
March, 1889, shall upon conviction, forfeit
said Office and be removed therefrom.
Sec. H. The several circuit attornies
shall prosecute, and all grand jurors shall
present every violation Of this act of
which they have knowledge or probable
information.
Sec. Ia. The judges of the several cir
cult courts, shall give this &C: in charge TO
all grand juries, and shall read it to them.
Sec. Is. This act shall take effect on
the first day of March, 1889. 1t shall be
published three times, weekly, in each
newspaper published in the State, immedi-
ately after its passage.
THE BILL OF ls4O For the suppression
i Of small Bank notes and for other pur-
4 poses.
BE ii enacted by the General Assembly Of
The State Of Missouri, as follO,Os:
i Sec. /. If any person shall pass any