Chapter CCCIX. *to extend the Jurisdiction of Commissioners of the Circuit Courts of the United States.* July 28, 1866. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the commissioners whoCommissioners of the circuit courts may exercise power
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CHAP. CCCIX.— An Act *to extend the Jurisdiction of Commissioners of the Circuit Courts of the United States.* July 28, 1866. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the commissioners whoCommissioners of the circuit courts may exercise powers of justice of peace, under act 1790, ch. 29, § 7.Vol. i. p. 134. now are, or hereafter may be, appointed by the circuit courts of the United States to take acknowledgments of bail and affidavits, and also to take depositions in civil causes, shall and may exercise all the powers that any justice of the peace may exercise under and in virtue of the seventh section of the act passed the twentieth of July, anno Domini seventeen hundred and ninety, entitled “An act for the government and regulation of seamen in the merchant service.
” Approved, July 28, 1866.