The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-01-15
LEsIsLAIIoA TO REACH RAsoALs.


Text Of amendment Prsplsd BY lhe
city solicitor, 10 be submitted 10 the
Legislature.
We give below the text Of the amend.
msnts prepared by the City Solicitor, to
be submitted to the Legislature, which
have been suggested by the experience Of
the city in itsauits against Black and Max
well and King, and by the experience Of
the State in the prosecution Of Maxwell
and King.
The part relating To the competency Of
judges and jurors, who are tar payers, ia
intended to be new act, there being now
no similar general provisions in this
State;
SECTION /. No judge Of any court, and
NO sheriff or other officer Of court, shall
be disqualified from performing his official
duties with respect to any cause by reason
of lie fact that he is q citizen and a tax.
payer Of n county, distriCt, school district,
or municipal corporation which 10 inter
ested In, or q party 10 such cause.
SIC, 2, In any suit or proceeding In
which . county, district, school district,
or municipal corporation Ia interested, or
Is party, no person shall be incompetent
as Juror because he ia an inhabitant or a
taxpayer OF such county, district, school
district, or municipal corporation, pro-
yided, however, that in any case where q
municipal corporation isinterested, or is a
party, the Court, upon motion Of either
party 10 the suit, made either on'the fret
day Of tho term OF the Court, or at any
other time not less than five days before
the day set for the trial, may order Jurors
10 be summoned, none OF whom are citi.
gems or taxpayers OF such municipal cor
poration, and lift DO under circumstances
requiring the Issuing OF va,irs tdciaI, the
officers charged with tho duty OF drawing
the names from the box shall draw the
number required, exclusive Of those who
are known to be citizens or taxpayers oil
such municipal corporation, Any Court
OF limited jurisdiction heretofore estab'
lisbed or that may be hereafter establish
en- within any incorporated city, town or
village shall have power to require the
summoniug and attendance oil Jurors from
the county, who are not citizens OF the
municipal corporation, Either the sheriff
OF the county or the officer OF such Court
who Ia authorized to execute lls wrils in
other cGses may summon such jurora.
The following, relating to ENLIGHTENMENT
and other offences, Is Intended as amend.
ments, extending the the scope Of seCtions
OF the law now In force, 10 that there shall
be no distinctions between the persona
WHO embezzle, and making II punishable
to steal from q city or town, or to alter,
carry away, or burn the books Of u city,
the same as to steal from bank or burn
or hide Its hooks.
sEC. 10. II any officer, SCENT, clerk, or
servant OF this State, or OF any county,
diatriGt, school district or municipal cor
poration thereof, or oil any incorporated
hank or other corporation, or any officer
OF public trust In this State, or any ogant,
clerk, or servant Of Buch otliCar Of public
trust, or any agent, clerk or servant of any
firm or person, or company or association
OF persons not incorporated, embezzle or
fraudulently convert 10 his own use, bull
lion, money, bank notes, or other seourl.
W for money, or any effects or property Of
another person which shall have come to
ulb pVbS6btlUul Ut uebu plhGpu uuAoI ulh
caro- or management, by virtue Of his Of
fee, place or employment, he shall be
deemed guilty OF larceny thereof
SIC. 81. II any officer, clerk or agent Of
this State, or OF any county, district,
school district or municipal corporation
thereof, or Of any bank, or incorporated
company, or any clerk or agent oiany firm
or person, or association Of persons not in
corporated, make, alter or omit TO make
any entry III any book Of, account Of, or In
any account kept by such State, county,
district, school district, municipal corpora.
ton, bank, incorporated company, firm or
person, or association Of pergOns, or mutt.
late, destroy or conceal any such account
or book Of accounts with inteutin so doing
TO conceal the true state OF any account,
or deiraud tho State, or any county, dis.
trict, school district, municipal corpora
ton, bank, company, firm or person, or
with intent to enable OF assist any person
to obtain money to which he was not on
titled, such officer, clerk or agent shall be
confined In the penitentiAty not less than
two nor more than ten years,