CONVENTIONAL INTEREST.
Mr. BUNDY, from the Committee on Judiciary, returned the petition of Joshua Holland page: 160[View Page 160] and others, for a law authorizing parties to contract for a rate of interest on the loan or forbearance of money not exceeding ten per cent, and reported a bill [163] to amend the first section of the act concerning interest on money, approved May 27, 1852; which was passed to the second reading:
Mr. EDSON, on the part of the minority of the Judiciary Committee, asked and obtained leave to present a minority report; which subsequently he did, and without reading, it was ordered to be spread on the Journal.