Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-01-16

IOUDOUN lTEMS.-On the second day OF the
January terms of the County Court Of Lou.
doun, in the case of nralham VS.. Palmer. Hon.
Chas B. Bail, Judge Of the County Court. in
an elaborate and able opinion decided that debts
contracted after the 9th OF July, 1869, the
date of the adoption OF the CONSTITUTION by the
people OF the State-were subject to the PIC
vision of the Homestead Exemption. In othcr
words that the property claimed by the doctor
under the exemption clause sot the constitution.
could not be levied on and sold or subjected t"
nayment Of a debt contracted after the 9Th Of
July, 1869 1t was contendcd on the other
side that the Doth of January 1870, the date
of the act of Congress admitting the State to
representation in Congress was the true date.
and not the 9th of July-lS69
On Monday last, Henry Heaton, Commits
sioner, sold the ''Birkitt Tavern" property in
Hillsborough, fol- $l,399-E f. Potts, pur
chaser. % the same day, the same Auc-
tioneer sold for J, NJ. Orr, Trustee of John II.
Rollins, tract Of 10 acres of land near Aldo,
for Sl3 so per acre-Jas. NJ Wallace, pur-
chaser. 49,.
On Monday evening next, 2u;h instant the
Ladies of the Loudoun County Lee Memorial
Association, will give public entertainments at
Acadmemy Hall, the proceeds to be applied
to the erection of suitable monument at L"X-
'
January Court on Monday was we'll attended,
though comparatively little business was done
in court -Lomloun Mirror.
INFO MATION TO HOLDERS OF STATE
| BONDS In response to an inquiry from Nlr
| VIM f. Taylor, auditor of public accounts. ASK
ing if coupons which are expressed on shcn
face to be receivable for all dues to the Stat
ought now TO be received for taxes by collect
| ing officers. Attorney General James t.. Taylor
has given the former officer his opinlonln writing
in substance, that although in the coupon eases
the mandamus only directed Sheriff John
Wright to receive the special coupons OF SlnNL
and Antoni Involved 10 those cases, yot. as the
funding bill was declared TO be constitutional
aud al act attempting nulity portion oil II
unconstitutional, the auditor ought to dIrcct
sheriffs generally to receive coupons in pay
ment of taxes. and not put the holders OF them
to the trouble and expense of issuing manda
mus against the sherifs 10 order to make them
receive their coupons Tor taxes.
In accordance with the views vi tho law otli
Ger of the Commonwealth, Auditor fayor vii.
shortly issue a circular to the collecting Officer,
informing them that they may now receive IN
| payment of taxes and other dues and demands
due the State, coupons OF those bonds Of the
| State which were issued uuder the funding a.,
before it was amended which state on their
face that they arc receivable for taxes &c Tie
| ONLY waits action of the Senate on House hiI!
taxing coupons.
This course will relieve the Legislature .!
the necessity of repeating the act declared 10y
the Supreme Court Of Appeals to be unconSl~
tutional-wheh they seem 10th to do. -Rci.
m0ud Enquirer.
THE FuSDING BILL IN a FEDERAL CnuNr
About the year 1854 or 50, one OF the ia
reaus at Washington city Invested $1,000 "'o
in Virginia IS for the benefit of what Is known
as the Indian Annily Fluid. The interest on
this is due to the Federal government. toI"
raby potent power these tunes. We have
heard it intimated that the government At
Washington is indisposed to ''let this s!l'sc,
and are contemplating such action as will e..
force their claim. and that for SIX per cent "Ii
the full value Of the bonds 50 held Suit will
probably be instituted in one OF the Federal
courts for its recovery. 1t Is scarcely Necessary
to speculate what the result will be.
This presents new phase OF the debt qurs
ton, not only as to the coustitutionaty OF the
funding bill but as to the responsibility OF \lr
ginla, as she now exists, for the face value Of
all the boucs originally issued in her mans.
and when West Virginia formed an intcsra.
part Can the United States be coaxcd iul
an attendance upon the conference with til,
buDdhOderS in this city on the llth Of F:5ru
airy? Legislators may defy bondholders at home
anud abroad. but when the pondrous paw %!
the United States, as a dondholder,
down, we shall see some squirmng -f,ols~
ichsJug Herald.
TuE DDoDJ-rCfnN fin4U from, ponuli.,.