Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1870-03-11
Pennsylvania LEGISLATURE.


The following bills we're up during the
past week
Ore by Mr. Burlington that any election
officer who shalt refuse to receive and count
the vote Of any citizen 10 his district 90 ac
count OF race, color, Or previous condition Of
servitude, shan be 3ePmei guilty 0f misde-
meauor, and punished By hne and impris-
oumeat
One by Dir Daley, Incorporating the
Orion Club Of Ph;adpIphia Mr. Daley.
asked that the til be laid on the table.
This was objected 10 by Mr. Creitz Of
L-hiah, and iha bill, at the rrque,t of Mr.
Drley, was referred to the Committee on
Corporations
Mr. Adams presented the following:
That If any 05'tq0r mortgage or other
person liable for the payment Of any bond,
mortgage. interest coupon or debt of any
description not made payable by the express
terms Of the contract in gold or silver coin,
and incurred prior 20 February &c, 1862
shall tender in payment thereof, when and
after the same may be dae and psyahle, the
fall amount of any such debt or liability In
legal tender notes issued By the authority 0l
the Uniied States and the creditor or per
son 10 whom the same j. payable shall refuse
or decline TO accept such lrgal-Sender NOTES
~ payment thereof, either before or after
suit brought Tor the Tec0vTy o any suca debt
a aw or 10 equity, the ilaniiff IN such suit
shall not BE- entitled to Judgment or damage
exceeding the amount OF such debt with
interest thereon 70 the date Of such tender
but such judgment shall bear interest only
At the rate Of three per cent, per aBnum
and no execution shall issue thereon until
all the liabilities and debts Of the United
States shall be made payable 10 gold and
silver coin by act Of Congress. Provided
however. that this act shall exuire on the
6r>t day of July. A D. 1872
Senate bin for the election Of Attorney
General and Secretary of the Common
wealth. was killed
Senate hi authorizing married women tn
sell their property when deserted by their
husbands Passed.
Senate bin repealiug the five hundred
dollars Hscence Tor foreign Insurance com
panieS, and taxing them three and one half
per cent. Passed
Senate bill authorizing judges to commit
Persons guilty Of perjury. Passed.
Hoa-e bill ezempbng sewing machines
used by and ~ families, from execution
Passed.
Senate supplement TO the Sunday liquor
- atA aita FlE Tie Etf2EE~ IL us GfsrTGflUD
to iBhict fine Of from twenty fre 10 one
bundled dollars, or to imprisonment, wa
passed to q second reading by l6 yeas 10 IS
navs, and vas then laid over for the preseni.
Senate hIii exempting beqneSts for chari-
table and religious purposes from taxation.
was called up and sustained BIZ Mr Cennell
IN an eloquent speech. but was lost by Il
70 @
Senate bin ezempting mortgages and
other securities from taxation except for
STATE purposes all on this Commonwealth,
was amended 10 take effect next November,
aud passed Adjourned
House bill authorizing The Governor to
issue commissions to officers Of the lste war
Wss defeated
Senate bill authorizing husband and wife
10 testify 10 divorce cases was pissed.
Senate bill authorizing corporations TO
capitalize their earnings was passed 70 a
thiFd reading and laid over. Adjourned
GOLD 1l3s. Gold reached 1871 for the
first tune on the qth Of July, 1862, and lose
ma higher than lI9s befrren that dag and
the 9Th day Of August following. when II
tell to ll2s. After thal It continued 10 ad
vance, aud On the lat day Of 1862 IT reached
1888 Gold reached its highest roint IN
New YORK on the 10th Of July, 1864. v hen
il sold aS 2S5 a higher price than ibis j.
said TO have been reached, but this i the
highest regularly recorded at the New York
Go,d Exehaage, and no one will dispatethaf
This was high enough.
Yesterday gold closed at ll3i, lhe point
reached Jny 9, ls62. Six months before
this there was no premium on gold, and we
predict that within that space on time in the
failure it viii command NJ premium Over
gfeeabaeks. OF, in other words, that the de-
sired dsy of specie payment will arrive OF
or hef1re the 4ib Of September, 1870
pr, IT,,