IMPORTANT DECISION.
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The Supreme Court Of The United States
have unanimously decided, that those proyis-
ions In heInsolvent Laws of individual States.
which exempt The property Of debtors, subse-
quently acquired, from attachment for debts
contracted previous to their declared insoyen-
cy, are void, inasnluch as they are violations
OF that article of the constitution which rro


hibits the passage faDy law in any State an
pairing The obligation Of contrdcts-but that a
State may pass law exempting the bodies Of
debtors from arrest--It seems as yet uncer-
tain what has been the extent of the first part
OF this decision whether it is intended to re.
late only to those contracts made before the
passage of an insolvent law, or TO include
those also, made atteywards. Upon hasiy
consideration OF the subject, we should be in
clined TO believe il was meant 70 apply only