Chapter II. *supplementary to an act to abolish imprisonment for debt in certain cases*.(*a*)(*a*) Notes of the nets which have been passed relating to imprisonment for debt, vol. 1, 265
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Chap. II.— An Act *supplementary to an act to abolish imprisonment for debt in certain cases*.(*a*)(*a*) Notes of the nets which have been passed relating to imprisonment for debt, vol. 1, 265. Jan. 14, 1841. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Construction to be given to the net of 28th Feb. 1839, ch. 35. That the act entitled “An act to abolish imprisonment for debt in certain cases,” approved February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, shall be so construed as to abolish imprisonment for debt, on process issuing out of any court of the United States, in all cases whatever, where, by the laws of the State in which the said court shall be held, imprisonment for debt has been, or shall hereafter be, abolished.
Approved, January 14, 1841. 410