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mitted into

such sick seamen may belong; and each Seamen adseaman so admitted shall be subject to a the hospital charge of seventy-five cents per day for each subject to a day he may remain in the hospital, the pay- every day ment of which the master or commander of they shall remain therein.

charge for

en by the col

due from the master, as

such foreign vessel shall make to the collec- Clearance tor of the district in which such hospital is not to be givsituated: and the collector shall not grant a lector until clearance to any foreign vessel, until the mo- the money ney due from such master or commander, in manner and form aforesaid, shall be paid; aforesaid, and the director of each hospital is hereby Acs. against directed under the penalty of fifty dollars, to foreign seamake out the accounts against each foreign made out by seaman that may be placed in the hospital, the director under his direction, and render the same to of the hospi. the collector.

shall be paid.

men to be

tal.

ney they col

Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That Collectors to the collectors shall pay the money collected, pay the moby virtue of this and the act to which this is lect into the an amendment, into the treasury of the Unit- treasury of ed States, and be accountable therefor, and under this receive the same commission thereon, as for and the act

other money by them collected.

the U. States

to which this is a supple

Director of

Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That ment. each and every director of the marine hospi- the marine tals shall be accountable at the treasury of hospital to the United States for the money by them re- the money ceived in the same manner as other receiv- received by him.

account for

ers of public money, and for the sums by Allowed a them expended shall be allowed a commis- commission.

sion at the rate of one per cent.

NATHL. MACON,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.
ABRAHAM BALDWIN,

President of the Senate, pro tempore.

APPROVED, MAY 3, 1802.

TH: JEFFERSON.

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Same proceedings may be had against nonresidents in the circuit court for the county of Washington as in the general court or court of chancery in Maryland.

Proceedings against nonresidents in the circuit court of Alexandria county to be the same as

in the district or high court of chan

cery in Virginia.

Times of sessions of the circuit courts of Alexandria and

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CHAPTER LII.

- AN ACT additional to, and amendatory of, an act, entituled, "An act concerning the district of Columbia."

BE

of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the circuit court of the county of Washington, in the territory of Columbia, shall have power to proceed in all common law and chancery causes which now are, or hereafter shall be instituted before it, in which either of the parties reside without the said territory, in the same way that non-residents are proceeded against in the general court or in the supreme court of chancery in the state of Maryland.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the circuit court of the county of Alexandria, in the district of Columbia, shall have power to proceed in all common law and chancery causes which now are, or hereafter shall be instituted before it, in which either of the parties are non-residents of said district of Columbia, in the same way, and under the same regulations observed, by the district court or by the high court of chancery in Virginia, in proceeding against non-resi

dents.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the courts for the counties of Alexandria and

Washington, shall hereafter be holden at the Washington periods following, to wit: for the county of Alexandria, on the fourth Monday of June

heretofore

the sessions

and November, and for the county of Wash- Process ington, on the fourth Monday of July and issued, and December, in each year; and all process not returned. heretofore issued from the offices of the said able to the courts and not yet returned, shall be returna- first days of ble to the first day of the sessions of the said of the courts. courts, respectively, and all causes now de- Causes depending to pending in the same shall stand adjourned stand adand continued over to the next sessions of journed to the said courts, as established by this act. sions. And the said courts are hereby invested with These courts the same power of holding adjourned ses- hold adsions that are exercised by the courts of journed sesMaryland.

a

these ses

have power to

sions.

sued on the

where the

does not ex

in such cases

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That No capias ad no capias ad satisfaciendum shall hereafter dum to be is. issue on any judgment rendered by single judgment of magistrate, or in any case where the judg- a single ment, exclusive of costs, shall not exceed magistrate twenty dollars; but that in such cases, exe- amt. exclusive cution shall be only on the goods and chattels of costs, of the debtor, and shall issue by order of the ceed 20 dolls. justice who may have taken cognizance of Executions the action, from the clerk's office, and shall to be issued be returnable thereto: That all such execu- against the tions be returnable on the first Monday in good and every month; and that the same, and also the debtors. the warrant to bring the party before the and return justice, be directed to one of the constables, able. whose duty it shall be to obey the same: That Constables each of the said constables shall give bond, with surety, with one sufficient surety, to be approved of approved of by any one of the district judges, for the dist. judges. faithful execution of the duties of his office, Clerk's fees in the sum of five hundred dollars: That and filing the clerk's fees for issuing and filing the return of every such execution, shall be tions.

chattels of

How issued

to give hond

by of the

for issuing

the return of these execu

Constable's fees and

twenty-five cents; the constable's fees for commissions. return and service, shall be fifty cents; and

The act to which this is a supplement

not to extend to cases where, by

the Virginia & Maryland

laws, attachments may

issue against

the property of absconding debtors.

How taxes are to be levied in the county of Alexandria;

And the poor of the said county

provided for.

The laws of Virg. and Md. adopted by a former act, not to prohibit the owners of slaves from hiring them

that a commission of eight per cent. be allowed the constable for every sum thereon by him levied.

Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That so much of the original act to which this is a further supplement, as confines the jurisdiction of the courts of this territory to cases between parties who are inhabitants of, or residents within the same, shall not be construed to extend to any case where, by the laws of Maryland and Virginia, respectively, attachments may issue to affect the property of absconding debtors, or others having property within the district, and whose persons are not answerable to the process of the

court.

Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That the taxes to be levied in the county of Alexandria, shall hereafter be assessed by the justices of the peace of the said county, and the poor of the town and country parts of the said county of Alexandria shall be provided for respectively, in like manner as the county and corporation courts were authorized to do by the laws of Virginia, as they stood in force within the said county, on the first Monday of December, in the year one thousand eight hundred.

Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That no part of the laws of Virginia or Maryland declared by an act of Congress, passed the twenty-seventh day of February, one thousand eight hundred and one, " concerning the district of Columbia," to be in force within the said district, shall ever be con

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moving them to the dis

strued so as to prohibit the owners of slaves in and re-
to hire them within, or remove them to the
said district, in the same way as was prac- trict.
tised prior to the passage of the above recit-

ed act.

Parts of for

justi

peace and jurors abo

Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That so much of two acts of congress, the one mer acts with passed on the twenty-seventh day February, respect to one thousand eight hundred and one, enti- tiompel ast tuled "An act concerning the district of ces of the Columbia;" the other passed the third day peace of March, one thousand eight hundred and lished. one, supplementary to the aforesaid act, as provides for the compensation to be made to certain justices of the peace thereby created, and for compensation to jurors attending the courts within said district, except Except as to so much thereof as relates to their travelling ling expenses expenses attending the same, shall be, and of jurors. is hereby repealed: and jurors, in future, summonned & shall serve in the said courts, and be sum. to serve in moned to attend the same in like manner as manner as jujurors serve and were summoned in the rors in Virg. courts of Virginia, prior to the passage of the above recited act.

the travel

Jurors to be

the same

Certain licenses to be grant

way as they

courts of Md.

Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That ordinary licenses, retailers licenses, and ed in the same hawkers and pedlars licenses, shall be grant- have been ed by the circuit court of the said district, granted by the in the respective counties, as the same were Virginia. heretofore granted by the courts of Mary- Judges of the land and Virginia, respectively. And the circuit court several judges of the said circuit court shall such licenses have like authority to grant such licenses in vacation, as the justices of in vacation, as the justices of the courts of the courts of Maryland and Virginia heretofore possessed; Md. and Virg. and the money arising from such licenses

may grant

mayhavedone: