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 Important Decisioa.--Two individuals in- dicted for perjury, in proving up Donation Claims, have been discharged at the present term of our Superior Court, on the ground that as the law requires their dispositions to be ta- ken "before the Register and Receiver"--- and as they were in fact sworn to before a Justice of the Peace--in presence of the Re- ceiver alone, (the Register having that day died1-that therefore the Justice ofthe Peace had not authority to administer the oath, and if the person swore falsely under such cir cumstances, he cannot be punished for perju- ". That is, an oath taken falsely before q Justice of the Peace, and the Receiver tor Register) alone, is not punishable. Both the Receiver and Register should be present to make it perjury. The Court did not express ly decide whether either the Register or Re- ceiver alone could administer an oath and take epositions-inclining however to the opinion that he could not. Such may be the law-wc have not examined, and cannot say. If it be, 'tis pity.

 0I- We understand that euevy cloins pro- yen up at Helena, comes within the scope of this decision. The Grand Jury have accord ingly closed their investigation, without hav- ing found single bill, and all the prisoners indicted for perjury have been discharged.