Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-01-26

Judge j. i. Swsyne, OF the Circuit
/ Court, concluded an able charge to the
Grand Jury as follows: se.
The following acts, passed since the
Code, the Court is required to give you
specially in charge, to which have
before alluded:
1860 chap. 81. to suppress counterfeit-
ing facts 1859 60);
1865 chap. 10. concerning seditious
words or speeches;
1866 chap. 10, to compel ticke! agents
to do their duty;
1869 dec. u. TO amend the criminal
laws of the State.
The other acts defining ofenses, and
passed subsequently to the Code, are as
follows:
Acts of 1860 chaps. IA, 81 and 9s, 1865
chap. 81, on the subject of banks and
banking;
Acts Of 1860 chap. CT, to suppress and
punish fraud in packing cotton and to-
bacco;
Acts of 1860 chap. 80, to license bill
lard tables aud for other purposes;
Acts of 1860 chap. 81, and 1868 chap.
Gus liquors;
Acts of 1860 chap. sc, giving Grand
Jury discriminating power to prosecute
for swesring;
Acts of 1860 chap. 81, for relief of pen
sioners, as to clerks fees
Acts of 1860 chap. 80, sec. 5, as to
sgents refusing to deliver effects of
minors;
Acts of 1860 chap. l3l. and 1868 chap.
70, sec. IA, making it felony for tax-col-
lectors to fail or refuse to pay revenue to
the State;
Acts of 1865 chap l6, sec. 8, making it
perjury to take falsely the oath pre-
scrIbed 10 the act limiting the elective
franchise;
Acts Of 1865 chap. 4, to punish armed
providers, etc.;
Acts of 1865 chap. sec 2, for felo-
niously breaking open house to com
NIT larceny or robbery therein;
Acts Of 1865 chap sec. 3, for robbing
or stealing from the person;
Acts of 1865 chap. Sec 4, for house
or bridge burning;
Acts of 1867 chap. 26, and secs. 3, A
aud of chap. 36, in regard to the cleo
tive franchise;
Act 1867 chap. A sec. 4, to protect the
National Cemeteries in this State;
Acts of 1868 chap. % sec. 3, to punish
for injury to or mutilatiop of grounds,
buildings, etc, belonging to the United
States;
Acts 1868 chap. &c, to punish common
carriers and their agents for distinguish
ing against persons on account of color,
race or previous ccnditiou-repealed by
act of November II, 1862
Acts 1868 chap. 68 sec. 10, forbdding
contracts with work hands or others in
their employ to keep them from going to
the polls on election days;
Acts 1868 chap. 10 secs. 3 and A, for.
bidding Insurance Companies without
depositing so, 900 of six per cent. bonds
OF the Safe or United States;
Acts 1868 chap 70 sec. l6, forbiddiHg
doing business by persons proceeded
against for taxes, or any violation of the
revenue laws;
Acts 1869 chap IA, forbidding shutting
up or obstructing roads opened by order
Court from the land of party who is
surrounded by the lands Of others;
Acts 1869 chap. - (Dec. l8), forbid
ding selling or furnishing to visitors in
theaters and other places, wines or other
liquors or cigars, and indecent or i'm
moral exhibitions
See section 1888 to 1888 inclusive, fer
the limitation of psnsl prosecutions;
those not included therein are not lin
tied. The laws of the State now make
no distinction of color, etc, as to often
ses committed. All acts prohibited by
law without snnexing q penalty, are
misdemeanors, aud are to be treated as
such; section 1896 The country de.
mands aud greatly needs tranquility and
peace; ana these we should desire for
ourselves and for our children and chill.
dren's children in the land that is our
dwelling-place, and is to be theirs, and
the honor, prosperity and happiness of
the whole should be the care of each
concerned, without bitterly retrospect
ing the past, the unhappy past, but look
ing hopefully to the future in the spirit of
Christianity and patriotism, philosophy
and good citizenship. We may largely
contribute 20 these ends by the strict OBJ
servance of law and its faithful enforce
ment by the courts and the juries of the
country. You will conform your sittings
as nearly as you may to those of the
court. Your duties are before you.
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