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shall be held to bail in any civil suit in the District of Columbia , unlesson affidavit, filed by the plaintiff or his agent, stating in cases of debt orcontract the amount which he verily believes to be due, and that thesame has been contracted by fraud or false pretences, or through abreach of trust, or that the defendant is concealing or has concealed hisproperty in the District or elsewhere, or is about to remove the samefrom this District or the place of his residence, in order to evade thepayment of the debt, or that, being a resident of the District and domi-ciled therein, is about to abscond without paying the debt, and with aview to avoid the payment of the same, setting forth all the facts onwhich said allegations of fraud or breach of trust are founded, and inall cases setting forth the grounds, nature, and particulars of the claim.The sufficiency of the affidavit to hold to bail, and the amount of bailto be given, shall, upon application of the defendant, be decided by thecourt in term time, and by any single judge in vacation. In all casesin which the affidavit required by this act is not filed previously to issu-ing the writ, the defendant, upon its service, .shall not be required togive bail, but merely to sign an order to the clerk of the court to enterhis appearance in the cause, which, if he refuses to do, he may then beheld to bail as in other cases.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That any person now held to bailin a civil suit in the said District may apply to the Circuit Court of thesaid District in term time, or to any judge thereof in vacation, for a ruleto show cause why he shall not be discharged on filing a common ap-pearance, and shall be so discharged unless the plaintiff or his agentshall file a sufficient affidavit, in conformity with the provisions of thepreceding section, within a reasonable period of time, to be assignedby the court or the judge to whom the application is made.
Approved, August 1, 1842.
Persons not tobe held to bailin civil suits ex-cept on affida-vit, in certaincases.
Sufficiency ofaffidavit, &,c.how to be de-termined.
Relative to thedischarge ofpersons nowheld to bail incivil suits.
Ciiap. C1X.— in Act to extend the provisions of an act entitled “ An act to regu-late processes in the courts of the United States, ” passed the nineteenth May, onethousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, (a)
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of theUnited. States of America in Congress assembled, That the provisionsof an act entitled, “ An act to regulate processes in the courts of theUnited States, ” passed the nineteenth day of May, one thousand eighthundred and twenty-eight, shall be, and they are hereby, made applica-ble to such States as have been admitted into the Union since the dateof said act.
Approved, August 1, 1842.
Act 19th May1828, ch. 68,made applicableto States sinceadmitted intothe Union.
Chap. CXX. — An Act to constitute the ports of Stonington , Mystic river, andPawcatuck river, a collection district.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of theUnited States of America in Congress assembled, That the town ofStonington, in the county of New London, State of Connecticut , shallbe a collection district, from and after the thirtieth day of June next;and that the port of Stonington , aforesaid, shall be, and hereby is, madea port of entry.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the district of Stonington shall comprehend all the waters, shores, bays, and harbors, from thewest line of Mystic river, including the villages of Portersville andNoank, in the town of Groton, State of Connecticut , to the east line ofPawcatuck river, including the town of Westerly, State of RhodeIsland , any thing in any former law to the contrary notwithstanding.