Mrs. Rockwell's. Franklin-House. National Hotel. Gourlay's. Merchants' Hotel. Franklin-House. Archer's, Pine-street. Merchants' Hotel. Mrs. Lockwood's. FRANCIS SEGER, Clerk, Gourlay's, 89 Washington-street. AARON V. FRYER, Deputy-Clerk, Mansion, 50 S. Pearl-street. Franklin-House. JAMES D. SCOLLARD, Sergeant-at-Arms, Lewis', Washington-st. OLIVER SCOVIL, Assistant Door-keeper, 48 Washington-st. Of the committee on the judiciary, on the act concerning insolvent and other notices, &c. The committee on the judiciary, to which was referred the bill entitled "An act concerning the printing of insolvent and other notices in the city and county of New-York," RESPECTFULLY REPORT: That by the provisions of the Revised Statutes, in respect to proceedings in cases of insolvency, the officer granting the order requiring the creditors of the insolvent to show cause, must direct notice of the contents of the order to be "published in the state paper, and in a newspaper printed in the county in which the application is made, if there be one, and if there be none, in a newspaper printed nearest to such county." In all cases where one-fourth part in amount of the debts due from the insolvent, has accrued in the city of New-York, or is owing to creditors residing there, a copy of the notice must be published in a newspaper in that city. The numerous journals, daily, semi-weekly, and others, published in the city of New-York, afford these applicants every opportunity of selecting the medium through which they may legally give notice of their intent; and if it should appear that these notices have been published in journals having but a limited and circumscribed circulation among commercial and other business men in the city, this alone, in the opinion of the committee, would warrant legislative [No. 17.] 1 |