Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-05-16

lated the same, every such person shall be
deemed guilty of misdenleanOr aud shall
at the discretion of the Jury, be fined not
less than one hundred nor more than five
thousand dollars and be confined IN the
county jail not exceeding one year, and shall
moreover be subject to all the penalties
mentioned in the third section of chapter
l94 of the Code of 1860
9. Every person who shall practise any
profession, or conduct any business or call
ing for which license is now required by
law, without having obtained n license
therefor, and who shall refuse to take the
oath set forth in the first Section of this
Act, when duly rendered by any officer au-
thorized and required to administer the
same; and every person mentioned in the
third Section of this Act, who shall refuse
to Take the said oath, when duly rendered
by any officer authorized to administer the
same, or who shall continue in his office
or employment without having taken the
said oath, according to the terms of this
Act, shall be deemed suspicious person,
within the intent and meaning OF the sixth
and seventh Sections of Chapter II of the
Code of 1860, and the Ordinance Of tue
Convention which assembled at Wheeling
on the llth dayof June, 1861, entitled ''An
Ordinance to authorize the apprehendiug of
suspicious persons in time of war" passed
June 18th, 1861. The Governor may at
his discretion upon affidavit of the fact,
cause every such person to be apprehended
and secured, by warrant under the less seal
of the Commonwealth, and held in custo-
dy until such person shall enter into
bond, in such penalty as shall be named in
said warrant, with one or more sureties to
be approved by the Justice of the Peace or
Judge Of Circuit Court, before whom said
bond shall be acknowledged, conditioned
that he shall keep the peace and be of good
behaviour for the space of twelve months
thereafter, thnt lie will not practise any
profession, or conduct any business or cali.
ing for which a license is required by law,
or assume any office or employment men
toned in the third Section of this Act,
without having first taken and subscribed
the oaths aforesaid; and that be will not,
in any manner, directly or Indirectly give
aid or comfort to the so-called Confederate
States of America, or to the enemies of the
United States of America. Such warrant
may be directed to any Sheriff or other Of
hGer, civil or military, and shall be executed
according to the terms thereof, by such of
tcer, WHO shall have all the powers neces-
sary for the purpose, citherin or out of his
county or corporation. The bond men
toned in this Section may be sealed and
acknowledged before Justice of the Peace
or Judge of Circuit Court, aud returned
with the warrant to the Secretary of the
Commonwealth, to be by him filed i'll his
office.
Z. Nothing in this Act contained, shall
be so construed, as to require the said oath
set forth in the first section, to be taken or
subscribed, by an alien, subject of my for
eign power at peace with the United States
of America, domiciled within this State,
who shall in all other respects comply with
the license laws of this State. Nor shall
anything in this Act contained, be SO con-
strued, as to require tue said oath 10 be
taken or subscribed, by citizen of another
State of the United States, temporarily
resident within this State, who shall in lieu
thereof take and subscribe the following
oath: 81 sOlemuly swear that | will sup.
port the Constitution of the Uuited States,
and the laws made in pursuance thereof, as
the supreme law Of the land" and who
shall, in all other respects, comply with the
license law of this State.
8. That the Act entitled s'An Act pre-
scribiug oaths in certain cases, and prOvid-
ing for the registration of the same" pass
ed February 10th, 1862. shall be aud the
same is hereby repealed, but nothing in this
section shall be so construed as 10 release
any penalties incurred in the act hereby re-
pealed.
8 This Act shall be in force from its
passage. M odi -al