Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1862-03-06

taxation. Authority is given to temporaril,
deposit demand notes, to the extent of twenty
five Millions on an interest Of six per cent. ate
thirty days. The final amendment to the bill
permits sixty millions of Treasury notes to b.
used for the payment of custom duties, the 6ft,
millions authorized in July and the temporar,
relief ten millions authorized last month,
Stay Law.
Mr.. Reese, from the Committee on the Sta,
Law, in the House of Delegates, reported on tn,
26th ult, the following bill, which was read !:
first time:
BILL entitled an act to amend an act passed
at special session of the General Assembly
held the twenty-sixth day of April, eighteen
| hundred and sixty-one, chapter seventeen
entitled, An Act to repeal the nineteenth sec.
| ton OF the twenty article of the Code
of Public General Laws, and the proviso tc
the thirty-thrd section of the fifth article OF
the said Code, relating to the Stay of Execu-
ton, and to extend the time for enforcing the
Execution of Judgments, by providing for a
qualified extension of said act beyond it's pre-
sent duration, on the conditions in this bill
expressed.
Section l. Be IL enacted By the General As-
senably Of Maryland, That the seventeenth chap.
ter of the Public General Laws. passed at spe-
cial session Of the General Assembly of Maryland
held on the twenty sixth day of April, eighteen
hundred and sixty-one, be amended and extend
ed beyond its present duration, so as to operate
further stay Of execution on the conditions in
the following section prescribed.
Section 2. BE ii enacted, That as to all iudg-
ments or DEGREES for the payment of money
anda l,v,o ~ II
of this State, and upon all powers to sell, con-
tanned in any mortgage, and on all DEGREES for
sale of mortgaged property, there shall be a fur
ther stay of execution, after the period limited
in said act until the first day of November next;
and on condition the debtor then pay an install
ment of ten per centum of the whole debt, in
GLIDING interest and costs, there shall! be stay
IF execution for four months thereafter when
upon payment of a second instalment of ten pei
centum of the whole debt, there shall be stay
for four months thereafter and upon the pay
ment OF third instalment Of twenty per centum
OF the whole debt at the expiration of that time
and so on, by payments of twenty per centun
OF the whole debt, at the expiration Of each en-.
suing four months, till the whole debt be paid
there shall be stay of execution from the day
OF each payment up to the next ensuing install
mentsday; prouided, ho,ceoer, that if the debto,
srli pay T!sy 5uUseUdent
instalment, at the time, or in the manner. and
to the amount above set forth, he shall forte
all benefit Of this act, and execution nav issue
as to the whole or any balance of the debt, with
interest and costs then due.
Section 8. And be 1t enacted, That the secur-
ties provided for as to mortgage of personal pro-
perty, and also the immunity of the lien of iudg-
ments in the second section Of the original act
referred to, shall apply to all cases covered by
this act; and that this act shall not apply to
debts contracted after the tenth day of May next.
Section 4. 4nd be it enacted That this act
shall take effect from the tenth day of May next
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Arrest of Citizens Of Alexandria.
The following is taken from the correspon-
dence of the Philadelphia Inquirer:
Washington, Feb PIT indefatiyable
Government Detective, L. C. Baker, and his
Assistant, S. w. Morton, were engaged last
night and this morning in bagging nest of
traitors and conspirators at Alexandria, whose
dark and reasonable operations have been going
on ever since the breaking out of the rebellion,
and yet whose plans were so secretly and alroit-
ly pursued that it is only now that the evidence
is secured, and the Infamous wretches captured
The conspiracy has been organized under the
comprised all the reasonable objects of giving
aid and comfort to the enemy. A fund was OBJ
tanned from Rebel pathizers, for the purpose
of supporting the families of soldiers in the ser
vice of the Confederate States on the ident-
cal plan Of the noble Relief Commission of Pha-
lelphia, established with such different motives
1t also has been engaged in the manufacture Of
Rebel uniforms, which were distributed among
the subordinate female associations.
The purposes of the plotters were, also to
furnish arms and munitions of war. A conSid-
cradle quantity have been discovered packe3
for shipment. consisting of knapsacks and wea-
pons. Letters were found acknowledging the
receipt through the agency of the association OF
rifles and pistols in Richmond.
The association was organized under ex- Mayo
Price, Hiram o. ClauShton. Chairman; James
E. McGraw, William w. McGraw and William
w. Harper. while Henry Peale acted as Secre-
tary. 1t afterwards permanently organized b,
electing William n Brown Treasurer, and E.
S. Hough Secretary. The following are the
First Ward-John W. Burke, John A. Field
George II. Markell Second Ward-H. c.
Field, William Cogan, John L. Smith. Third
Ward-W. II. Booth, w. Avery, J. A. McGraw.
Fourth Ward-E. Snowden, Jr., Andrew J.
Viiildili w. anu jas. IN
Chamberlain. Purchasing Committee-James
E. English, James Green, James E. McGraw.
J. Buckingham. Disbursing Cnmmittee--W.
A. Maury, Stephen Green, w. H. Mcknight,
J. Lewis kinzer. Thomas Clovis. Committee
to Solicit Aid of Ladies'. Entwisle, Jr, Robt
Ashby, and George T. Baldwin.
The ringleader appeared to be Henry Danger
field. who has brother Major in the Rebel
army, and who is one Of the weathiest men in
the State of Virginia. He resided in a magnif-
cent mansion in Alexandria, and is estimated to
be worth over a million of dollars.
Among his papers were discovered invoices
for over 100000 worth Of tobacco, shipped
from Baltimore to Europe, and which was own
ed by parties in the Rebel States. A prominent
actor was Charles Marberry, Cashier Of the
Farmers Bank of Alexandria
All Of these parties were arrested last night,
and will no doubt be Immediately sent to Fort
Warren.
Mr.. Baker, the detective has been for weeks
this plot, which has, until now,
baftled the skill Of all the detectives