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TWENTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess.I. Ch. 99,100. 1844.
Trustees, &c.to have powerto commencesuits, &c., andprosecute tofinal judgmentand execution.
Proviso.
Statute I.June 17,1844.
Balances underacts of June 12,
1838, ch. 97,and March 3,
1839, ch. 93,how to be ap-plied.
Balances un-der acts of April29, 1836, ch. 59,June 12, 1838,ch. 97, andMarch 3, 1839,ch. 93, re-ap-propriated.
Statute I.June 17, 1844.
Act of Aug. 1,1842, ch. 108.
No person tobe held to bailor imprisonedin a civil action,when the debtis less than $50,&c.
1845, ch. 2.
Proviso.
made over to said bank, or which would in any manner have becomethe property of said bank had the same continued in existence in anyaction, suit, judgment, or execution aforesaid or otherwise, shall enure tothe trustee or trustees, assignee or assignees, receiver or receivers ofsaid bank, if any shall be appointed by the stockholders or otherwise.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the trustee or trustees, as-signee or assignees, receiver or receivers, who may be appointed to col-lect and receive the assets of any bank whose charter shall expire asaforesaid, and to adjust, settle, and liquidate, the debts due from saidbanks, shall have full power to commence and institute all necessaryactions, suits, or other proceedings, in law or equity, in the name of saidbank, and prosecute the same to final judgment and execution, Pro-vided,That the Court in which such legal or equitable proceeding shallbe commenced, shall first receive sufficient security for the costs whichmay be recovered by the opposite party.
Approved, June 17, 1844.
Chap. XCIX .—An Act to enable the War Department to supply certain balancesof appropriation, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America in Congress assembled, That the President of theUnited States is hereby authorized to direct the application of anybalances now remaining in the treasury, or which may come into thetreasury on the settlement of accounts under any of the specific headsof appropriation in the acts of the twelfth June eighteen hundred andthirty-eight and third March eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, to anyarrearages chargeable to the general head of suppression of Indian hos-tilities.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the balances of appropria-tions made twenty-ninth April eighteen hundred and thirty-six, twelfthJune, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight and third March eighteen hun-dred and thirty-nine for suppression of Indian hostilities, which havebeen carried to the surplus fund, be and the same are hereby re-appro-priated for the settlement of arrearages for suppression of Indian hos-tilities so far as the same may be necessary in the payment of accountsaudited and passed for settlement by the accounting officers of theTreasury.
Approved, June 17, 1844.
Chap. C. — An Act supplementary to an act entitled “ An act to regulate arrestson mesne process in the District of Columbia ,” approved August first, eighteenhundred and forty-two.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America in Congress assembled, That no person shall here-after be held to bail or imprisoned in any civil action in the Dis-trict of Columbia , in any case where the debt or claim, exclusive of in-terest and costs, is less than fifty dollars, and in cases where he mayhave been, or shall hereafter be, held to bail under the act, to whichthis is a supplement; and that every person who at the time of thepassage of this act, shall be held in prison or prison bounds, in anycivil action, except in the cases hereinbefore mentioned, shall there-upon be immediately discharged : Provided, That if any plaintiff in anycivil action after judgment shall have been obtained by him or her, shallmake oath according to law, that the defendant or defendants has orhave conveyed away, lessened, or disposed of his or their property,rights, or credits, or is, or are about to remove, or hath or have re-moved, his or their property from this District, as he or she believes,