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The Daily Dispatch: December 30, 1861., [Electronic resource], From Southwestern Virginia. (search)
ces, and not forthwith deliver over such person to the judicial authorities for trial, such officer shall be fined in any sum from one to five thousand dollars--or imprisoned for six months to one year, or both at the discretion of the court, and moreover gives a right of action for damages to the party aggrieved. The bill provides, also, the means of enforcing the order of the court in cases under it. The bill was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and ordered to be printed. Mr. Watts, of New Mexico, introduced a bill to provide for a temporary Government for the Territory of Arizona. Referred. The House then resumed the consideration of Mr. Wilson's resolution, that the Military Committee be instructed to report a bill enacting an additional article of war, for the government of the army, prohibiting any officer from using the forces under his command in returning fugitive slaves. Mr. Noell moved to lay the resolution on the table, upon which the yeas and nays