Chapter XVIII. *to make Attachments which are made under Process issuing from the courts of the United States conform to the Laws regulating such attachments in the courts of the States.* March 14, 1848. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled
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Chap. XVIII.— An Act *to make Attachments which are made under Process issuing from the courts of the United States conform to the Laws regulating such attachments in the courts of the States.* March 14, 1848. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That whenever, upon Attachments under mesne process issuing from the courts of the United States, to be dissolved in the same manner as those under process from the respective State courts.process instituted in any of the courts of the United States, property 214 THIRTIETH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 19, 22. 1848.shall hereafter be attached to satisfy such judgment as may be recovered by the plaintiff in such process, and any contingency occurs by which, according to the laws of a State, such attachment would be dissolved upon like process pending in, or returnable to, the State courts, then such attachment or attachments made upon process issuing from, or pending in, the courts of the United States within such State shall be dissolved, the intent and meaning of this act being to place such attachments in the courts of the States and the United States upon the Proviso saving the priority of the United States.same footing: *Provided,* That nothing herein contained shall interfere with any existing or future law giving priority in payments of debts to the United States.
Approved, March 14, 1848.