Chapter CLXXX. *supplementary to the several Acts of Congress abolishing Imprisonment for Debt.* March 2, 1867. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That whenever, upon mesneState laws for discharge from imprisonment, &c. for debt, to ap
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CHAP. CLXXX.— An Act *supplementary to the several Acts of Congress abolishing Imprisonment for Debt.* March 2, 1867. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That whenever, upon mesneState laws for discharge from imprisonment, &c. for debt, to apply to process from courts of the United States.Oath, notice, &c. process or execution issuing out of any of the courts of the United States, any defendant therein is arrested or imprisoned, he shall be entitled to discharge from such arrest or imprisonment in the same manner as if he was so arrested or imprisoned on like process of the State courts in the same district.
And the same oath may be taken, and the same length of notice thereof shall be required, as is provided by such State laws; and all modifications, conditions, and restrictions upon imprisonment for debt, now existing by the laws of any State, shall be applicable to process issuing out of the courts of the United States therein, and the same course of proceedings shall be adopted as now are or may be in the courts of such States. But all such proceedings shall be had before some one ofProceedings to be had before commissioners. the commissioners appointed by the United States circuit court to take bail and affidavits.
Approved, March 2, 1867.