Power to and infpec Sec. 11. And be it further enacted, That the fupervisors of the revenue, and infpectors of furveys, fhall have power, from time to fupervifors time, to examine, upon oath, or affirmation, tors to ex- any officers or perfons employed under them amine on in the collection and receipt of the duties imofficers em- pofed by this act : And any officer or perfon, ployed by who fhall fwear or affirm falfely, touching oath the them. Prefident of U. S. to allow for collection of the du. tics not ex ceeding 5 per cent. on the whole amount. any matter hereby required to be verified on oath or affirmation, fhall, on conviction thereof, fuffer the pains and penalties, which are prefcribed for wilful and corrupt perjury. Sec. 12. And be it further enacted, That it fhall be lawful for the Prefident of the United States, and he is hereby empowered to make fuch allowances for compenfation to the officers of infpection employed in the collection of the duties aforefaid, and for incidental expenfes, as he fhall judge reasonable, not exceeding, in the whole, five per centum of the total amount of the faid duties collected. Sec. 13. And be it further enacted, That the act, intitled, “ An act laying duties on carriages for the conveyance of perfons," and fo Certain act much of the fifteenth fection of the act, inti and parts of at repealed. tled, "An act to alter and amend the act, intitled, "An act laying certain duties upon fnuff and refined fugar," as authorizes the Prefident of the United States, to apply a fum not exceeding five per centum on the total amount of duties collected on carriages for the conveyance of perfons, fhall cease, and be repealed, from and after the last day of Auguft next; except for the recovery of any duties or penalties, which fhall have accrued, Exception and remain unpaid; any thing in the laft fection of the act of the laft feffion, intitled, “An act making further provifion for the support JONATHAN DAYTON, Speaker of SAMUEL LIVERMORE, Prefident of the Senate pro tempore. APPROVED, May the 28th, 1796: GEORGE WASHINGTON, Prefident of the United States. CHAPTER XXXVIII. An Act for the Relief of Perfons imprisoned for, Debt. Sec. 1. B civil ac U. States. E it enacted by the Senate and Houfe Privileges of Reprefentatives of the United of perfons States of America, in Congress affembled, That imprin perfons imprisoned on process iffuing from tions under any court of the United States in civil actions, fhall be entitled to like privileges of the yards or limits of the refpective gaols, as perfons confined in like cafes, on procefs from the courts of the respective states, are entitled to, and under the like regulations and reftrictions. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That any perfon imprisoned as aforefaid, may have the adminifter ed to per debt, and by whom. oath or affirmation herein-after expreffed, administered to him by any judge of the United Oath to be States; and in cafe there fhall be no judge of ed to them, the United States refiding within twenty miles of the gaol wherein fuch debtor may be confined, fuch oath or affirmation may be administered by any two perfons, who may be commiflioned for that purpofe by the judge of the Oath to be diftrict-court of the United States within adminifter whofe jurifdiction the debtor may be confinfons impii- ed; the creditor, his agent or attorney, if eifoned for ther live within one hundred miles of the place of imprisonment, or within the district in which the judgment was rendered, having had at least thirty days previous notice by a citation ferved on him, iflued by the district judge, to appear at the time therein mentioned at the faid gaol, if he fee fit to fhew caufe, why the faid oath or affirmation fhould not be fo administered: at which time and place, if no sufficient caufe, in the opinion of the judge, (or the commiflioners appointed as aforefaid) be fhewn, or doth, from examination, appear to the contrary, he (or they) may, at the requeft of the debtor, proceed to adminifter to him the following oath or affirmation, as the cafe may be, viz. " You, fo have not lemnly fwear (or affirm) that you fhall not be liable to be imprisoned again for the faid debt, but the judgment fhall remain good and fufficient in law, and may be fatisfied out of any eftate which may then or at any time afterwards belong to the debtor. And whenever the oath aforefaid fhall be administered by commiffioners, in addition to the certificate by them made and delivered to the prison-keeper, they fhall make return of their doings to the diftrict-court with the commiffion to them iffued, to be kept upon the files and records of the fame court. fwearing Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That if Penalty on any perfon fhall falfely take the oath or affir- falfely. mation aforefaid, such person shall be deemed guilty of perjury, and upon conviction thereof, fhall fuffer the pains and penalties in that cafe provided. And the court, upon the mo tion of the creditor, fhall re-commit the debtor to the prifon from whence he was liberated, there to be detained for the said debt, in the fame manner as if fuch oath or affirmation had not been taken. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the Former act act, intitled, “An act to continue in force repealed. the act for the relief of perfons imprisoned for debt," be and the fame is hereby repealed. of this act. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That this Limitation act fhall continue in force for the term of three years. JONATHAN DAYTON, Speaker of SAMUEL LIVERMORE, Prefident of the Senate pro tempore. APPROVED, May the 28th, 1796 : GEORGE WASHINGTON, VOL. III. V 2 Military ment after cers and CHAPTER XXXIX. An Act to afcertain and fix the military Eftablibment of the United States. Sec. I. B E it enacted by the Senate and Houfe of Reprefentatives of the United States of America, in Congress affembled, That the military eftablishment of the United States, from and after the last day of October next, be compofed of the corps of artillerifts and engineers, as eftablifhed by the act, intitled, "An act providing for raifing and organizing a corps of artillerifts and engineers;" two companies of light dragoons, who fhall do duty on horfe or foot, at the difcretion of the Prefident of the United States; and four regiments of infantry, of eight companies each; the company of dragoons fhall confift of one captain, two lieutenants, one cornet, four ferjeants, four corporals, one farrier, one faddler, one trumpeter, and fifty-two privates; and fhall be armed and accoutred in fuch manner as the Prefident of the United States may direct. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted,That each No. of off- regiment of infantry fhall confift of one lieutenant-colonel commandant, two majors, one cach reg. adjutant, one pay-mafter, one quarter-mafof infantry. ter, one furgeon, two furgeon's mates, eight men to captains, eight lieutenants, eight enfigns, two ferjeant-majors, two quarter-master-ferjeants, two fenior musicians, thirty-two ferjeants, thirty-two corporals, fixteen muficians, and four hundred and fixteen privates : Provided always, that the Prcfident of the United States may, in his difcretion, appoint an additional number of furgeon's mates, not |