Chapter CXXIII.
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Chap. CXXIII.— An Act *concerning the Apprehension and Delivery of Deserters from Foreign Vessels in the Forts of the United States.* Feb. 24, 1855. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the commissioners who Powers of commissioners of courts respecting deserters from foreign vessels. 1828, ch. 41.now are, or hereafter may be, appointed by the circuit courts of the United States, to take acknowledgments of bail, and for other purposes, may and shall exercise all the powers conferred on any court, judge, or other magistrate by the act approved the second day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, entitled “An act to provide for the apprehension and delivery of deserters from certain foreign vessels in the ports of the United States.
” Approved, February 24, 1855.