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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 3 STAT. · March 1, 1817 · Chapter XXX

Chapter XXX. in addition to an act, entitled “An act for the more convenient taking of affidavits and bail in civil causes, depending in the courts of the United States.”March 1, 1817. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Powers of the commissioners appointed for the more conve

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Chap. XXX.— An Act in addition to an act, entitled “An act for the more convenient taking of affidavits and bail in civil causes, depending in the courts of the United States.”March 1, 1817. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Powers of the commissioners appointed for the more convenient taking of affidavits and bail in civil causes extended. Act of Feb. 20, 1812, ch. 25. Act of 1789, ch. 20. States of America, in Congress assembled,* That the commissioners who now are, or hereafter may be, appointed by virtue of the act, entitled “An act for the more convenient taking of affidavits and bail in civil causes, depending in the courts of the United States,” are hereby authorized to take affidavits and bail in civil causes, to be used in the several district courts of the United States, and shall and may exercise all the powers that a justice or judge of any of the courts of the United States may exercise by virtue of the thirtieth section of the act, entitled “An act to establish the judicial courts of the United States.
” Approved, March 1, 1817.
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