Repeal of former laws. fuch agreement, then to and among fuch perfons, and in fuch proportions, as the court having jurisdiction thereof fhall appoint. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That fuch parts of any acts of Congress of the United States, as respect the falvage to be allowed in cafes of re-capture, fhall be, and are hereby repealed, except as to cafes of re-capture made before the paffing of this act. TH: JEFFERSON, Vice-Prefident of the United States, and Prefident of the Senate. THEODORE SEDGWICK, Speaker of the Houfe of Reprefentatives. APPROVED-March 3, 1800. JOHN ADAMS, Prefident of the United States. CHAPTER XV. An ACT declaring the affent of Congress to certain acts of the ftates of Maryland and Georgia. Sec. 1. ·B Eit enacted by the Senate and Houfe of Reprefentatives of the United States of America, in Congrefs affembled, That the confent of Congress be, and hereby is granted to the operation of an act of the General Affembly of the state of Maryland, paffed on the twenty-fixth day of December, one thoufand feven hundred and ninety-one, entitled "An act empowering the wardens of the port of Baltimore to levy and collect the duty therein mentioned," and alfo to fo much of an act of the state of Georgia, paffed February the tenth, one thousand feven hundred and eighty-feven, entitled, "An act for regulating the trade, laying duties on all goods, wares, liquors, merchandise and negroes imported inte 43 this ftate; and alfo an impoft on the tonnage of shipping, and for other purposes therein mentioned," as authorizes a duty of three pence per ton on all fhipping entering the port of Savannah, to be fet apart as a fund for clearing the river Savannah. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this act shall be, and continue in force until the third day of March, one thoufand eight hundred and eight, and no longer. THEODORE SEDGWICK, Speaker of the Houfe of Reprefentatives. Vice-Prefident of the United States, and APPROVED-March 17, 1800. JOHN ADAMS, Prefident of the United States. CHAPTER XVI. An ACT to alter the times of holding the Diftrict Sec. I. E it enacted by the Senate and Houfe of Reprefentatives of the United States of America, in Congress affembled, That the feffions of the diftrict court for the district of North-Carolina, fhall hereafter be holden on the first Monday in February, May, Auguft, and November annually. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all procefs which fhall have been iffued, and all recognizances returnable, and all fuits and other proceeding, which have been continued to the faid district court on the first Monday in April next, fhall be returned and held continued to the faid court on the first Monday of May next. THEODORE SEDGWICK, Speaker of the Houfe of Reprefentatives. TH: JEFFERSON, APPROVED Vice-Prefident of the United States, and March 19, 1800. JOHN ADAMS, Prefident of the United States. An ACT for the relief of Campbell Smith. E it enacted by the Senate and Houfe of Reprefentatives of the United States of America, in Congress affembled, That the proper accounting officers of the Treafury liquidate and settle the account of Campbell Smith, for his fervices as Judge Advocate to the legion of the United States, while he acted in that capacity, under an appointment made by General Wayne, on the fixteenth of July, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four; and that he be allowed fuch pay and emoluments for faid fervices, in addition to his pay in the line, as are allowed by law to officers acting in that capacity. THEODORE SEDGWICK, Speaker of the House of Reprefentatives. Vice-Prefident of the United States, and APPROVED-March 29th, 1800. JOHN ADAMS, Prefident of the United States. CHAPTER XVIII. An ACT to extend the privilege of franking letters and packages to Martha Washington. BE E it enacted by the Senate and Houfe of Reprefentatives of the United States of America, in Congress affembled, That all letters and packages to and from Martha Washington, relict of the late General George Washington, shall be received and conveyed by poft free of post ́age, for and during her life. THEODORE SEDGWICK, Speaker of the Houfe of Reprefentatives. Vice-Prefident of the United States, and APPROVED-April 3d, 1800. JOHN ADAMŠ, Prefident of the United States. CHAPTER XIX. An ACT to establish an uniform Syftem of Bankruptcy throughout the United States. I. Sec. 1.B of Reprefentatives of the United States E it enacted by the Senate and Houfe Who may of America, in Congress affembled, That from bankrupt be an act of bankruptcy. What shall conceal him or herself therein, or keep his or her house, so that he or she cannot be taken, or ferved with procefs, or willingly or fraudulently procure him or herfelf to be arrested, or his or her lands, goods, money or chattels to be attached, fequeftered, or taken in execution, or fhall fecretly convey his or her goods out of his or her houfe, or conceal them to prevent their being taken in execution, or make, or caufe to be made, any fraudulent conveyance of his or her lands, or chattels, or make or admit any falfe or fraudulent fecurity, or evidence of debt, or being arrefted for debt, or having furrendered him or herfelf in discharge of bail, shall remain in prison two months, or more, or escape therefrom, or whofe lands or effects being attached by procefs iffuing out of, or returnable to, any court of common law, fhall not, within two months after written notice thereof, enter special bail and diffolve the fame, or in diftricts in which attachments are not diffolved by the entry of special bail, being arrested for debt after his or her lands and effects, or any part thereof, have been attached for a debt or debts amounting to one thousand dollars or upwards, fhall not, upon notice of such attachment, give fufficient fecurity for the payment of what may be recovered in the fuit in which he, or fhe, fhall be arrested, at or before the return day of the fame, to be approved by the judge of the district, or some judge of the court out of which the process iffued upon which he is arrested, or to which the same shall be returnable, every fuch perfon fhall be deemed and adjudged a bankrupt: Provided, that no perfon fhall be liable to a commiffion of bankruptcy, if the petition be not preferred, in manner hereinafter directed, |