mitted into charge for main therein. en by the col 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 remain in the hospital, the pay- every day day he may ment of which the master or commander of they shall resuch 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 the collector. due from the master, as shall be paid. men to be of the hospi tal. pay the mo Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That Collectors to the collectors shall pay the money collected, ney they colby 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 account for ceived in the same manner as other receiv- received by ers of public money, and for the sums by Allowed a them expended shall be allowed a commis- commissionsion at the rate of one per cent. NATHL. MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. President of the Senate, pro tempore. APPROVED, MAY 3, 1802. TH: JEFFERSON. Z him. 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 chancery in Virginia. Times of sessions of the circuit courts of Alexan ( 178 ) CHAPTER LII. AN ACT additional to, and amendatory of, an act, entituled, "An act concerning the district of Columbia." BE E it enacted by the Senate and House 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 dria and Counties. heretofore not returned 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 made returnheretofore 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 sesMary land. these ses have power to sions. satisfacien 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 isissue on any judgment rendered by a 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 chattels of goods and every month; and that the same, and also the debtors. the warrant to bring the party before the and returnjustice, 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, for issuing in the sum of five hundred dollars: That and filing the clerk's fees for issuing and filing the re- the return of turn of every such execution, shall be tions. How issued to give bond by one of the Clerk's fees these execи Constable's fees and twenty-five cents; the constable's fees for commissions. return and service, shall be fifty cents; and that a commission of eight per cent. be allowed the constable for every sum thereon by him levied. The act to which this is a supplement not to ex tend 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 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 proprovided for. vided 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. The laws of Virg. and Md. adopted by a former act, not to prohibit the owners of slaves from hiring them 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 strued so as to prohibit the owners of slaves in and removing them to hire them within, or remove them to the to the dissaid district, in the same way as was prae- trict. tised prior to the passage of the above recit ed act. congress, the one Parts of for mer acts with Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That so much of two acts of passed on the twenty-seventh day February, respect to one thousand eight hundred and one, enti- comper sation to justi tuled "An act concerning the district of ces of the Columbia;" the other passed the third day peace and jurors aboof March, one thousand eight hundred and fished. 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 licen way as they courts of Md. Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That ses to be grantordinary 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 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 havedone: may grant the justices of |