Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-12-29

again, in section I'd of chapter 4th, I'M
der the head of exemptions from military,
service. il is prescribed that /" the follow
ing persons only shall be exempt from the
performance of all military duties, to-wit:
The Vice President OF the Confederate
States; the officers, Judicial and Execu-
tive OF the Government of the Confederate
States; the members of both Houses of
Congress, and The CLERK of each House
all the custom,house officers"
Alter this enumeration follows the list
Of the State officers aul Others who are ex-
eupt. We merely publish rhe above
named exemptions to show what curious
medley the legislation of the called ses-
sion is. 1t takes in, NOT only State, but
Confederate State persons and matters.
Chapter 9Th is an interesting chapter for
the people OF this section of the State. 1t
is called .iAu act to redress loyal citizens
injured by the exercise of usurped power"
aid reads after this style:
"Wbereas disloyal persons have con-
! spired 10 overthrow the legitimate autbo-
| rity of this Commonwealth, and for that
purpose have established within the limits
thereof an usurped government, whose
power is exercised to the Injury and op.
preston of the loyal people of this State
within its influence; and whereas the Gen
sral Assembly is DESTROYS of providing re.
dress TO such injured persons against such
couspirators; therefore,
Be Il enacted By The General AssenlbLy,
That every person who, since the seven
teenth day Of April, Ammo Domiui eight
cen hundred aud sixty-one, has been or
shall be guilty of establishing or attempt.
ing TO establish. without the authority of
the Legislature, any government within
.he limits of this State, separate and apart
from the existing government, or who has
held or exercised, or who may hereafter
hold or exercise, in such usurped govern
ment, any Office, civil or military, legisla-
live, executive or judicial, or any authori-
", howsoever conferred, dependent on
recognition of such usurped govern
menI, or who has been, or may here
after, be a surety in bond or other
wise, under any requirement or practice
of such usurped government, for any one
who has held or may hereafter hold any
such Office or authority, shall be incapable
by deed or otherwise, of selling, conveying,
devisiug or encumbering any real estate
situate in this State Every deedor other
| lutGu1Gu " Ou suGu
estate, and every acknowledgement, proof
or certificate of the execution thereof, aud
the record thereof, wheresoeyer made, shall
be null and void"
Section I'd of this chapter (5th) declares
; that the estates OF all persons mentioned
in the preceding section, shall be "su bject-
ed aud devoted to the redress and indem
MITIGATION of all persons loyal to the Com
monwealth, who have been or may be in.
jured by the exercise of any office or au
thOrity under the usurped government"
3 By section 5, Of chapter G, it is provided
that all persons (and their securi,ies) WHIT
shall bold Office under the UDited State,
I or under the " usurped government" ahal
be liable, 10 double the amount, to AM
loyal" citizen who shall have his property
cOnfscated by any law or agent of the Uni
i ted Stotes or of the '.usurped government
Sec. Let OF Chap. 7th repeats the 5mal
note law. Chap. 18th repeats the fenc,
law in the counties which have been invad
+ ed. Chap. Is increases jailors fees to ,sixty
cents per day Confederate money, o
course) for keeping and supporting per
sons confined in the jails of this Common
wealth." The second Sec. of this Chapte
r incidentally mentions that this act "shal
{ continue in force until six montbsafter tn,
9 ratification of a treaty of peace between thu
Confederate States and the United States
/ unless sooner repealed OF, amended."-
, Chap. 18th is whole act, by ITSELF t'foe tn
s relief OF Judge George W. Thompson" /
n was passed October 4th last, four days onl,
!. after the Legislature. met, and reads as fol
II lows:
g "Be it enacted by the General Assembly
That the ordinance of the late convention
(the one that passed the ordinance of seces
stony suspendfng tho payment of the salary
= of Geo. w. Thompson, one of the ICircus
> Judges of this Commonwealth, is hereby
! repealed; aud the Auditor of public ac
: counts is din ected to issue his warrant OIL
: warrants for the salary due to said Judge
in the same manner as if said ordinance
had not been passed"
{ The modest beneficiary of the above act
8 it will be recoIlected, after his deposition.
from the bench of this circuit
/ sent in a bill to our "usurped Gov.
ernmeut" for his pay. Not getting it h,
sent on to Richmond, determined from
, some source or other, to keep up the OLD
j lifelong custom of drawing from the public
, crib, whether in Office or out of it. We wish
him joy of the Confederate scrip that til,
rebels may send him from Richmond. Ne.
cessity will go hand in hand with cougeui.
, alityiin preventing an excessive outlay.
Under the head of resolutions, we find q
joint resolution that is iaughably 'meal.
tubisb," in its plainly discovered intent to.
wards the people of this section. The
framing of it must have been one Of Alph