The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-02-01

MI. ferguson, from the Committee
on The Judiciary, reported that 1t was
inexPedient to reduce the fees of Prose-
cutting Attorneys, on indictments; also
reported n substitute for House bill No.
s, as follows:
An ACT 10 PREVENT THE COLLECTION OF
ISSTEESEST IN CERTAIN CASES.
&c 81 eHaeied b. the Legislature OF
1 HeSt I'fgsRtds That no interest upon
a debt contracted, or liability incurred
prior 10 the frst day of April, 1885,
shall hereafter lie recoverable in any
acton or suit in any OF the following
( l. Where, during the late rebellion,
/ the Plaintiff or party for whose benefit
Sae action or suit is prosecuted, while
owning snch debt or liability, was en-.
I gagged in an armed hostility against the
United States or this State, for the
time he was engaged.
II. Where. during the said rebellion,
such plaintiff or party, while owning
such debt or liability, in any way gave
voluntary aid to said rebellion, during
the time he was SO aiding the said re-
bellion.
III. Where, during the said rebellion,
such plaintiff or party, while owning
such debt or liability, ); was voluntary
resident within the military lines of
the sO-called Confederate States Of
America, during the time OF such resi-
dence.S
IY.-where during the said rebellion
such plaintiff or party owning such
debt or Liability was in sympathy with
said rebellion and Voluntarily left his
home and went within the military
lines of the so.called Confederate
States of America, for the time he re-
NAMED within said lines.
ANY person owing such debt or
liability may tender to the owner there
OF the principaFsum due and the inter-
est recoverable thereof, and if such
owner shall refuse to receive the same,
no costs shall be recovered by the plain
TIL in any action thereafter brought for
the recovery thereof, but the defend
ant in any such action or suit shall re-
cover from the plaintiff therein all the
cost incurred by him In his defence to
such action or suit. And where any
action or suit hasI been, commenced and
Is now pending for the recovery of any
such debt or liability, the defendant
may tender to the plaintiff therein the
principal sum due and the interest
recoverable thereon together with the
costs which have accrued therein
up to the time of such tender, and
II the plaintiff shall refuse to receive
the same he shall not recover from the
defendant any costs incurred in such
action or suit after such tender, but the
defendant in such case shall recover
k3A"AAtAA4 all ILl6 SObLS
by him in his defence after the date OF
said tender. In either event the defen-
dant shall be entitled to a credit upon
the Judgment of the plaintiff for the
amount OF the costs so recovered byhim,
and II such costs exceed the amount of
the Judgment of the plaintiff the defen-
dant may enforce the payment of such
excess by execution. Provided, how
ever, that no defendant in any such ac.
ton or suit shall avail himself of the
provisions OF this act unless he shall
nle with his plea or answer an affidavit
that he never in any way gave volun.
Iary AID to the rebellion against the
The following resolutions were of.
fered:
By Mr.. Miller: In regard to protect.
ing the claims of laborers and work.
ingmen in all cases of voluntary as.
signment by debtors for the benefit OF
creditors.
By Mr.. Riddle: AS to the propriety
OF amending the school law SO as 10
nx the school tax at 20 cents on the
SlUO IN all the counties, townships, and
school districts where 1t will not inter-
isre with contracts already made for
the building of school houses.
By Mr.. Boughner: Empowering the
trustees or the Morgantown Female
, collegiate Institute to convey certain
3 real estate.
By Mr.. Welch: Amending chapter
a l00, OF the Acts Of 1868, in regard to tn,
sale OF Intoxicating drinks, so that i
=. shall not be unlawful to sell the sam,
u only on the day of election.
I. by Mr.. Crane: In regard to a bill
: prohibiting railroad companies from
y day.
BY Mr.. Steere: Doing awav with tn
y office of County Superintendent o
schools and "substituting therefor
u Board of Examiners, to be appointeI
u for each county.
40, By Mr.. McClaskey: Inquiring int
II the u expediency of increasing the fee
By Mr.. Parker: InQuirinE into til
- Xpediency OF the State of West Viz
" glnta providing IN assistant Tailor 70
, Ohio county. =
(Mr. Parker explained, in offering tn
% resolution, that at times criminals frou
i otner counties were temporarily lodge
4 In the Ohio county jail.I
l. BY Mr.. Bender: Providing for IN
compensation of Constables for service
u rendered in the year 1866 at the instanC
y of Boards of Registration.
= By Mr.. Huntington: Giving to til
= BOARD OF registration of every count
W the sole power to register persons VIII
have been stricken from the list Z
" voters.
u By Mr.. Hervey;P by law 70
the draining and retaining OF swam
d lands.
81 By Mr.. Heermans Amending til
law so that jurors and witnesses sha
70 be paid out OF the county treasury.
y BY Mr.. TOmlnson: Granting a char
re ter to the counties Of Mason and Cabe
to build n turnpike road, beginning q
o Point Pleasant, thence down the rive
1f to the old Gallipolis road, thence alon
D. said road to Mud Bridge In the count
of Cabell.
Q BY Mr.. woodEord: Directing tn
l. Special Committee on Assessmen.s G
d Lands to inquire into the expedlenc
OF establishing the assessment of 1S5
n in lieu OF the last assessment, addin
Il the Improvements up to 1885,"
The following petitions were offered
,. BY AIR. MRhou: On behalf of j.
" Armstrong and twenty-one others, ask
ing an act OF Incorporation for Cd
J. Fellows Lodge, No, so, in the town G
II Ripley, jackson county.
BY Mr. MahOn: On behalf of John L
ID. Bossett protesting against the bill
. allowing George Hartman to build
railroad from FRANKLIN Furnace, i
: Preston county, to the Baltimore an
Ohio railroad.
II By Mr.. Newlin: On behalf of Johl
q BOWyer Caldwell, asking the restora
7. ton OF the case of ], B. Caldwell, ap
70 pellant, Us EESkinstexecutor, et al, to tn
h docket OF the Court of Appeals.
By Mr.. Allisons On behalf of Jane
: Chambers and 40 others, askinI
p amendment Of school law relative I,
apPoEtionment OF the school fund
n which, on Mr.. AS motion, was r.
q terred to the Committee on Education
By Mr.. Hervey: On behalf of Adam
l. Kuhn, Richard LetEkins, H. NJ. CrOth
J. erss Wilson Beall, w. n. White, A. p
], kerker. Henry Haney, c.. Kimber
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