Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1850-07-01
Pennsylvania driving home the small
bills of other states.

The banking law adopted by the last
Pennsylvania Legislature, contains the fol-
lowing stringent provisions against the cir
culation OF tho small notes of other states
within the limits of that commonwealth. If
our Pennsylvania friends will see to its rigid
enforcement, they will place their Ohio
neighbors under an everlasting debt of
gratitude. We have been long convinced
that it is exceeding bad policy TO allow
bank note to wear out before it is presen.
ted for redemption in gold or silver
Ohio Patriot.
Sec. 49. That from and alterthe twenty
first day of August, one thousand eigh,
hundred and fifty, it shall not be lawful for
any person or persons, corporation or body
corporate, directly or indirectly, 10 issue,
pay out or cause to be issued, paid out pas
sed, exchanged, circulated, or transferred,
any bank noe, bill, certificate, or anv
acknowledgment of Indebtedness whatso-
ever, purporting to be bank note, or Of
the nature, character, or appearance of a
bank note, issued, or purporling to be issu-
} ed by any bank or incorporate company,
or association of persons, not located in
Pennsylvania Of less denomination than
five dollars; every violation Of the provision
of this section by any corporation or body
corporate, shall subject such corporation
or body corporate to the payment of five
hundred dollars; and any violation of the
provision ofthis section by any public Of:
ficer holding any Office or appointment OF
honor or profit under the constitution and
laws Of this State, shall subject the officer
to the payment ofone hundred dollars; and
violation of this section by any other
person not being an officer, shall subject
such person to the payment Of twenty
five dollars, one half of which in each case
above mentioned, shall go to the informer,
and the other half to the county in which
the suit is brought, and may be sued for
and recovered as debts of like amount
are now by law recovered in any action
of debt, in the name of the Common.
wealth of Pennsylvania, as we'll for the
use Of the proper county as for the person
suing.
Sec. 40. That in addition to the civil
penalties imposed for violation of the pro-
visions of the last preceding section, every
person who shall violate the provisions o
that section, shall be taken and deemed tc
have committed misdemeanor, and shall
upon conviction thereof in any criminal
court in this Commonwealth, be fined in
any sum not less than one dollar, and moi
more than one hundred dollars; the several
courts of quarter sessions shall in theil
charge to the grand jury, call their atten'
ton to the subject; and it shall be the duty
ofthe several grand juries to make present
ment of any person within their respective
counties, who may be gnity Of violation
of the provisions of the last preceding sec
ton, and it shall be the duty Of The severa
consiables and other officers within thi:
Commonwealth, to make information
against any person guilty of such violation
and they shall be sworn.to do so-ProUaded
That it shall not be necessary in any civi
suit or criminal prosecution under this sec
tion, and the last preceding section, to pro
duce, in evidence, the charter Of any bank
or article Of association of any company,
not located in this State.