Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1865-1869, 1866-03-02

lars.
To public warehouses one hundred dollars.
To civil contingent fund, in addition TO twenty
thousand seven hundred and seventy-four dollars
and ninetyeight cents paid from that fund since the
first of October last, ten thousand dollars and the
Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby authorized to
transfer the books of his office, 10 their appro'
pirate funds or heads OF expenditure, all such sums
as have been paid out of the contingent iund, Tor
lack Of the ordinary appropriations prior to the pas
sage of this act.
Repairs and furniture for Governors house. For
excess OF expenditure over appropriation OF TWO
thousand dollars made on the ODD June, lo6o, hve
hundred and fourteen dollars and ninety-ive cents.
Repairs of capitol For excess Of expenditure
over appropriation of one thousand dollars made on
the 22d June, 1865, one thousand nine hundred and
sixty-one dollars and forty.one cents.
Repairs to capitol, Governors house and public
square, and TO purchase furniture for Governors
house under act passed 9th February 1866 ten thou
sand dollars.
To pay for expenses of clerks in the Office of
Second Auditor, two thousand four hundred dollars.
To pay for services of temporary clerks in the
Office of the Auditor of Public Accounts and of the
Second Auditor, including four hundred and sixty
six dollars and eghty-one cents, paid since the first
of 1865, four thousand five hundred dollars.
To l.. W. Chamberlain for thirteen days services
as an enrolling clerk one hundred and four dollars
| To Frederick Gretter for one days services as an
enrolling clerk, eight dollars.
! ForcOntngent expenses of Board 81 Public Works.
! three hundred dollars
For Commissioners OF the revenue, thlrty-elght
TO the University of'virginia, fifteen thousand
dollars.
Fort payment of interest due upon State and
| guaranteed bonds due to colleges seminaries and
academies, twenty.eight thousand eight hundred and
seventy-thTee dollars and iifty-seveh cents.
To the Richmond Medical College, for insurance
and repairs to buildings, fifteen hundred dollars.
| For the purchase OF raw material and for other
| tha Tor tan nd inlla
10 be expended by the general agent upon the requ
sition of the Board of Directors.
For repairs to and machinery for the penitentary,
| twenty thousand dollars
| For salary of messenger in the office of the Audi
| tor of Public Accounts from lst February to the
3Oth September 1866, five hundred and thirty-three
dollars and thrty-threc and one-third cents,
For registration of births, marriages and deaths,
two thousand five hundred dollars.
| To each of the Pages of the Senate and House Of
Delegates the of three dollars per day for each
day of service such, to be paid upon the certf-
cate of the Clerk of the Senate and the Clerk of the
House of Delegates respectively.
To Alfred Thornton, Porter TO the Senate for his
services as such, and also for his attention to the
Senate chamber, clerks Office and committee rooms
of the Senate, and making fires in the same, two
dollars and fifty cents per day, to be paid on the
certificate of the Clerk of the Senate.
To the further EXPENSES of making fires and super
intending furnaces in the Capitol, the customary
allowances, with the addition of fifty per cent, to
the several persons entitled to the same, to be paid
upon the certificate Of the Superintendent of Public
Buildings.
For public printing twenty thousand dollars.
For salary OF superintendent OF Public Printing
one thousand dollars.
.. So much Of the public revenue as may be re-
ceved into the public treasury after the Both day of
September, 1866 and the surplus of all other appr0
prations made prior TO that date, uneXpended within
the fiscal year herenbefore provided for, and all
other moneys not otherwise appropriated by law,
shall constitute general fund.- to defray such eX
penses authorized by law not herein particu
| larry provided for, and to defray the usual allow
anCes lunatic aSylums and other current expenses
of the Commonwealth in the fiscal year, which will
commence on the lst day of October, eighteen hun
bred and sXy-siX, and terminate on the 3Oth day OF
September, 1867 And the Auditor of Public Ac-
counts is hereby authorized and required to issue his
warrants in the same nanncr il the same had
been specially mentioned subject TO such exceptions
limitations and conditions the General Assembly
have prescribed, may deem it proper to annex
and prescribe by law PrOUidGd, that nothing in
| this act contained shall be construed as to au
thorize the Auditor of Public Accounts to issue his
warrant or warrants in satisfaction of any Judge
ment decree of any court of law equity against
| the Commonwealth for a sum exceeding three hun
lred dollars without a special appropriation by law
g. The payments to the Military Institute, for sup
port to the LunatiC Asylums, for support and trans
portatiou of patients and To the Institution for the
| Education of the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind
shall be made OnefouTth in advance on the first day
of Aprll one-half on the first day of July Gf the
Visitors or Directors requireh and the remaining
one fourth on the first day of September.
4. This act shall be in force from its passage.
| HOUSE BILL CONCERNING CONTRACTS PAYABLE IN
CONFEDERATE TREASURY NOTES.
Was taken up and passed. The following is
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| WHEREAS, a deprecated currency, known as Con-
ederate States Treasury notes. constituted the only
or principal currency in the greaterpart of this State
during the late and whereas the result OF said
war involved the total destruction of said currency
| and whereas there are many contracts whlcl were
made, or obligations which were incurred before the
termination of said war, pIedicated on said depreci
| ated currency, still remaining wholly or partially
unadjusted, in respect to which great uncertainty
exists perpleXng alike to debtor and CREDITOR as to
the present measure of their liabilities and rights
spectively: and it thus appearing useful that some
uniform and equitable rule should he established for
| the adjustment of such mutual demands and llabih
lies: Therefore,
/. Be 1t enacted by the General Assembly, That
in any action or suit, or other proceeding for the
torcement of any contract, express or IMPLIED made
and entered into between the LIST day of January 1862
and the 10th day of April, 1865, it shall be lawful
for either party TO show by parole or other relevant
evidence, what was the true understanding and
agreement of the parties, either expressed or TO be
implied in respect to the kind of currency in which
| the same was to be fulfilled or performed, or with
reference to which, as u standard OF value, 1t was
made and entered into; and in an action at law, II
shall not be necessary To plead the agreement speci-
| ally, in order to admit snch evidence.
| .. Whenever it shall appear that any such con-
| tract was according to the true understanding and
agreement of the parties To be fulhled or performed
in Confederate States Treasury notes, or was entered
into with reference to such notes as standard OF
value the same shall be liqudated and settled ac-
cording to the scale of depreciation hereinafter pre-
! scribed that is to say, by reducing the nominal
amount due, or payable under such contract IN Con-
tederate States Treasury notes, To It's true value a
| the time they were respectively made and entered
into or at such other time may to the court seem
| right in the particular case and upon the payment
of the value asgertaned, the party bound by such
contract shall be forever discharged OF and from the
same Provided that in all cases where actual pay
ment has been made of any sum of such Confederate
States Treasury notes. either in full in part OF the
| amount payable under such contract the party 10y
or for whom the same was paid, shall have full
credit for the nominal amount so paid, and such
payment shall not be reduced according to the scale
| hereinafter prescribed,
| I'VE published the 81 section giving the scale oil
depreciation in yesterday paper,l
| l. Where any judgment or decree has been recOy-
cred for a specific sum or for damages between the
said lst day of January 1862 and the said 10th day
of April 1865, shall have been recovered after the
said 10th day of April 1865, upon cause of action
arising within tile said period, and such Judgment
remain unpaid, it shall be lawful for the courts in
| summary way, notion after ten days notice,
| either before or after the issue OF execution, 10 ny
settle and direct at what depreciation or how the said
Judgment shall be discharged, having regard to the
| provisions of this act, to the cause of action Tor
| which the Judgment was recovered and any other
proof or circumstance that, from the nature of the
| case, may be admissible.
| g. In any case wherein it shall appear that on any
contract made or liability incurred on after the
LIST day of January 1862, and before the 3D. day OF
| April 1863 the debtor or after the maturity of
the claim against him, and within the period above
mentioned, made to the CREDITOR his agent or attor
new at law, bona fde and actual tender of the
amount due in the said Confederate States Treasury
notes. or other equal better currency, and that the
creditor then refused to accept the court of
equity may grant relief to the debtor unless it ap-
pear that the creditor justified in refusing to ac
cept the amount rendered in consequence Of a sub
santial and decided depreciation of said currency,
after the time at which payment ought to have been
| made and before the time at which the tender was
made or unless otherwise appear to be inequltable
| to grant such relief.
6. When it shall appear that the non-payment OF
any debt owing TO the act or default of the credi
tor or that the nOn-perOrmance of any contract was
owing TO the act or default of the party entitled to
demand performance, or where other circumstances
exist which, in the opinion of the court, would rem
der a determination agreeable to the foregoing scale
of depreciation unjust, it shall he lawful for the
court to give such judgment or decree as shall be
just and equitable.