Western Sun, Volume 4, Number 50, Vincennes, Knox County, 9 December 1812 — Page 1

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THE WESTERN SUN, IS printed weekly at Two Dollars per annum, paid in advance or an attested Note, payable at the end of the year for Two Dollar if FlfTf CENTS. No Subscription will be received for a less term than one year and will not be discontinued until all arrearages are paid. Where papers are sent by Post, the person subscribing must pay the postage. Advertisements of nor more length than breadth will be inserted three times for One Dollar, and Twenty-five Cents, for every after insertion. To avoid unpleasant disputes, it is requested of Advertising customers, that they particularly specify the number of times their Advertisement's are to be continued. Those sent without such directions will be continued until forbid and must be paid for accordingly. All Letters addressed to the Editor must be Post paid, or they will not be taken out of the office. LAWS of the U. STATES. (By Authority.) AN ACT to amend the laws within the District of Columbia. BE It enacted by the Senate and House cf Representatives of the Untied Slates of America, in Congress assembled That yli promisory notes tor the payment of money hereafter drawn and endorfed or tranfferred within the county of Alexandria, in the districit of Columbia, (shall be governed by, and subject to the same laws as now in force & applicable to such notes, drawn, endorsed or transferred within the county of Washington, in the said district; and the rights, remedies snd responsibility of the person or persons hereafter holding, drawing endorsing or transferring any such promisory note as aforesaudm shall be the same within the county of Alexandria as they now are within the said county of Washington; & all laws now in force within the said county of Alexandria, contrary to this provision, are hereby repealed. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for any creditor of any insolvent debtor, wh shall hereafter apply for relief under the act of congress, passed on the 3d day of March 1808, entitled "An Act fort the relief of insolvent debtors within the district of Columbia, "to make the same allegations in writing, at any time before the oath of insolveocy shall be administered, as are now permitted by the 7th section of said act, which allegation shall be made before the judge by whom the oath of insolvency is proposed to be administered and a copy of the same, together with a notification from such judge of the time and place at which the truth of such allegation is to be tried, shall be forthwith served on such insolvent; and any one judge of the said district shall have the same power & authority to examine the debtor or any other person on oath, touching the of the said allegation, or to direct an issue or issues to be tried before him, in a summary way, to determine the truth of the same, as are now

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vested in the court of the said district by the 7th section of the said act; and if upon the answer to the said interrogatories, or upon the trial of the issue or issues, such debtor shall be found guilty of any fraud or deceit towards his creditors, or of having lost by gaming within 12 months bnext preceding his application for relief, more than 300 dollars, or of having within that time assigned or conveyed any part of his property, rights or credits, with an intent to give a preference to any creditor or creditors or a- ny surety he shall not be permitted to take the said oath, and shall be precluded from any benefit under the said act; and in case any such debtor, or any other person, shall at any time thereafter be convicted of swearing or affirming wilfully and corruptly to any matter or thing touching the inquiry aforesaid, the person so offending shall suffer as in the sase of wilful and corrupt perjury; and upon such conviction of the debtor or any other person testifying for him such, debtor shall be forever precluded from any benefit under the said act; but nothing herein contained shall be considered as in any manner impairing or repealing the provisions of the 7th section of the said act. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the benefit of the prison rules shall not be aiioweo to any debtor, hereafter taken or charged in execution within the said district for more than one year from the date of the bond given by him or her for keeping within the said rules; afier the expiration of which time, if the person so taken or chargea in execution shall not be discharged by due course of law, it shall be the duty o the marshal, or other officer to whose custody such person was committed, to recomit him or her to close jail & confinement, there to remain until the debt for which he or she was taken or charged in execution shall be paid, or until he or she shall be discharged under the act of congress for the relief of insolvent debtors within the district of Columbia Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That real estate in the coubnty of Alexandria shall be subject to the payment of debts hereafter contracted, in the same manner to the same extent and by the same process as real estate in the county of Washington, is subject to the payment of debts by the laws now in force in the said county of Washington, the operation of which laws is hereby extended to real estate in the said county of Alexandria for the satisfaction of debts hereafter contracted. S-c. 5. And be it further enacted. Tint on any judgment or decree rendered or hereafter to be rendered by the faid court in either of the f i'.d co.inties, any writ oi execution which thai! thereupon iflu-, may be fcired k canied into effeft in either c in which the perfon or property i al :e to ti e. (aid judgment or decree, may be foui : ; but the writ of execution (hall he r u ible only CO ti C court wherein tuch judgi;:-" nr decree ws rendered and trrm whence it ii fued ; fuch execotioo (hall have the fan e force and elT-cl a it it hnd iffued from t!:e county w hem fuch perCon or l;;s property may be found. Sec. a. And i: it further enacted, That upon judgments rcnueied on the cta mon iaw hue of ther circui' court of the i iid difricl in actions founded on Contracts, isitereO a: the rate of f.x percentmn per fani,:n (Hall be awardec1. on the principal turn due until the faid judgment (hall he fatU&ed and the amount which it to bear i.iteiefl. and the tunc from which it a to bp p.d

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fhall be afcrrtiined by the virdirSl of the ju ry fwbrn in the cauf:. Set. 7. And be it fur ther enecte That when any injunction (hall hereafter Uc ob tained to liay proceedings on any judgment rendered for money in the circuit court ot the (aid district, and inch injunction fhail be diiTolved wholly cr in part, damages, at the rate of ten per centum p.r annum from the time of the injunction Ih.ill be awarded until dilTolu'nn, (hall be pr.id by the party on whofe behalf fuch if junction was obtained on fuch fum as appears to be due, including cods, & execution on the judgment enjoin ed mall be if.at d for the f?me ; and in calts where a forthcoming bend ftiall have been executed by the complainant, and no jud cjment fliali have been rendered tl ercupon, the court in which execution Hull be awarder!, (hal! direct th" faid damages m be in rloded in the jndgment, wtnch damages (hall in a!! cat i be in full fatisfaAion of mtcreU for the timi- for whit!, they (hall he I v.v.-r t : tion maii or anv , I sat w hen 'anteu oo mii tiir j udgme it fi :cvit m; y, wf it tl ci it. aees fiiall r r .- v ' ' " r!! U enjoi i u direa th cr only fuch proportion Che ire oi as thty may cier m expedient. Sec. t. And i in av civil fnit i f. i nacted, i hat v , ox uuy 1 1 1 Hfoi UiiitlOtl or he c alter j minai or t'Otil di irolcCt r,w dV or indict m to be com i red, the t. upon a ft gg i - tion in writinor foppoted by o v ai of ICS . i r lO h or tmrmation. ttn I! and impartial Cri d can; county where luch u it big, may err.-:: ' i fam to oc i reu: v into court county in the iid diftrit ; and the ume I (hall be profecuted and tried according to law, and the judgment c?.rried ir:to (oil ct f"d ; and it lhall be the duty of the titk of the one county to trammit to the cleik of the other countv, a copy of the record of tii proceed in gs and all the original papers 6 i in his oiiice in the fui? or action ; and in 1 ! e mannc fee u tion afor mcnt, if t'.i the diitri. . oi ii any criminal or penal proi-. information or n,d:cta torney for the U. States loi Columbia fcV fngge(t in tintr, under his fie nature, to the coin t of the county, before whom any fuch informs tion or indiQmei t i or may he depending, that the U. Stjtea cannot have a lair and impartial tri.'l in fuch county, the conn may order the trial to be profecuted and had in the - therc unty, for which purpofe the proceedina and all trii;::.! p.-tpers lilcJ in iaid caoie Ihi H be tranfmicted Co the comt ot fucii other county, where the fame (hail be tiied and profecuted to final judgment a;d cxfi otion. Sec. 9. And he it further enacted. That here ifter it Si ill be lawful for any inhabitant iiih i Mtanta in either of the faid COOU t: 'a v on 2 6c p (T flia r anv iiavc oi (lives t! crein, to remove the lame fir m one county Co 'he other, and to exTcif, f;er-v and tu'iy all l he rights of prepet cy in anu over the laid li ive or (lives therein, which woulu be cxercilrd c.er him, her or th-m, in the county from whence the removal was made, ary thing in ary legislative ?cl in '.--ice at this t.me in tither of the faid counties to the contrary notwitl Randil b-S-c. 10. And ke it further enjtted, That m paying the debts ol any deceafed perfon the executor or adminiflrator, who fh all hereafter aoalify and obtain letter trlta mental y or of adminiftrati Cl o.-nans

court in the county cf Alexandria, fiiall obfcrve the fat low ii g rules ; funeral exp' nirs (hall be firft paid, next judgments 8c d'irtea ag inii the drcraf J r htained in bis lifetime in the i'id ddtrict (hall be wholly difcharged before any other c! .imi ; after futh tunerd' expeni es, judgi cms Sc decrees within the f.id didria ili aii be fatisfird, all other jult ciaims lb-ill be admitted to payment on rtii equal tooting, w itlmnt priority orpieftreme, and in equal proportion ; if there be not futficient to ciiftharge all fuch judgments & decrees, a proportionable diviocnd (hall be made among the judgment and decree creditors afoieiaid. In no cafe hall an executor cr udminiftratcr afotefrd, be ailou vd to retain for his own claim againft the deceafed, unlefs the fame be patted by the orphans' court, & when p:,ITed it fhall (land on rcual footing with other claimi ot .Ke nature ; and it fl.v.11 he the duty of evnv at.u'or nr mimftrator afore fa id to give it; i ci im sgiofl himfrlf, and ro exerotor lt Fninrltratoi mall dilcharge try the deceafed other wife rhan at the fame fiiall be fift be orphans' court granting the clatcb ac i.iS vi .. prffed hj adtnipirh Sec I nibe it further enacted, That wful for any perfon or p fest is tellamentary or ol adna nibeen or may hereafter be graft per authority in any of the U. territories thereof, to maintain iii . i?e i to w liorri Ic: tl ration had ted by th. p States or th ny fuit or action and to proferute and retorer any cl im in the dittricl of Columbia, in the fame manner es if the letrers ttdamentary or of adminiOration bad been granted to Inch perfon or perfona hy the proper authority in the faid dtftticl ; & the lttteia teftai ' ry or of adminiOration, or a copy thereof, certified unuer the fe;l of the authority granting the fa roe, (hall be fufficient evidence to provf the granting thereof, atid that the perfon or perfons, aa the cafe my be, hath or have adrniinftration. Sec 12. And be it further enacted. Thac tnftead of Che fefilons as heretofore by law directed, t'e courts for the county of Alexami, ia, (bal aker Chis at goes into opeiation, commence on t!-.r Co Monday in April and on the fourth Monday in November iu every year ; and all cafes, motioni, piocefs caufei matte b and thinga pending in or returnable to the frffiona heretofore fixed by !aw, mail be continued and returned rrfpec-ti-.ely to the frffions of the faid court here by appointed to be holder. Src. 13. And be it farther enacted, That it (hall be the duty f the conftabiei of the County of VVafhingtoa in the diilritt of C'umb, poo BCapiae ad fatistaciendum, flu r out of the deik's office of the faid ccuniy, in conformify with the proviuonsof the act entitled "An aft concerning the didrieU of ( lumbia," lo t.tWe the otftnd ant into eufl dy, on his failure to pac the debt and coOa in fn h capias ad fatifdiciendum mentioned, forthwith, upon the appli cation rt th-plaint, h, to drliver into the prifon of the laid county fuh irteodaaX, to be held in the f .id prifon by the nrrfliat of thediftrifl ot Colombia, until he mail be releafed by riue roorfe of law Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, Tha: the fiid man) a I Hil be entitled to the fame fee to- commitment and rrleafement of fdd lebror COiomiCted as afore fa id, 6c the fame allowance for ma mainte: ar-ce, and fobs p id in tl f I -me rra; . rr, as arc already proidea b;T law . Sec. 15. And If it further er ected, That bj m fieri faciei hTufng cut i the ccc