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the said certificate in a book to be kept for that purpose. Fines, how levied.The said marshal or his deputy shall forthwith proceed to levy the said fines with costs, by distress and sale of the goods and chattels of the delinquent; which costs and the manner of proceeding, with respect to the sale of the goods distrained, shall be agreeable to the laws, of the state, in which the same shall be, in other cases of distress. And where any non-commissioned officer or private shall be adjudged to suffer imprisonment,1813, ch. 18. there being no goods or chattels to be found, whereof to levy the said fines, the marshal of the district, or his deputy, may commit such delinquent to gaol, during the term, for which he shall be so adjudged to imprisonment, or until the fine shall be paid, in the same manner, as other persons condemned to fine and imprisonment at the suit of the United States may be committed.

Marshal to pay over fines collected.Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That the marshals and their deputies shall pay all such fines by them levied, to the supervisor of the revenue in the district in which they are collected, within two months after they shall have received the same, deducting therefrom five per centum, as a compensation for their trouble; and in case of failure, the same shall be recoverable by action of debt or information, in any court of the United States, of the district in which such fines shall be levied, having cognizance thereof, to be sued for, prosecuted, and recovered, in the name of the supervisor of the district, with interest and costs.

Marshals of the districts to have the same powers in executing the law. of U. States as sheriffs in the states.Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That the marshals of the several districts, and their deputies, shall have the same powers in executing the laws of the United States, as sheriffs and their deputies, in the several states, have by law, in executing the laws of the respective states.

Former act repealed.
Ante, p. 264.
Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, That the act, intituled “An act to provide for calling forth the militia, to execute the laws of the Union, suppress insurrections, and repel invasions, passed the second day of May one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, shall be, and the same is hereby repealed.

Approved, February 28, 1795.

Statute Ⅱ.



March 2, 1795
[Obsolete.]

Chap. ⅩⅩⅩⅦ.An Act to continue in force for a limited time the acts therein mentioned.

Acts relating to the law of Maryland for the appointment of a health officer;
Ante, p. 393.
Ante, p. 339.
Lighthouses, &c.
Ante, p. 275.
The mitigating or remitting of penalties &c. accruing under the revenue laws;
continued in force.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act, entitled “An act declaring the consent of Congress to an act of the state of Maryland passed the twenty-eighth of December one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three for the appointment of a health officer.” And also the act, entitled “An act supplementary to the act for the establishment and support of lighthouses, beacons, buoys and public piers,” so far as the same provides for defraying the necessary expense of supporting lighthouses, beacons, buoys and public piers and the stakeage of channels on the sea-coast. And also, so much of the act, intituled “An act to provide for mitigating or remitting the penalties and forfeitures accruing under the revenue laws in certain eases, and to make further provision for the payment of pensions to invalids,” as relates to the mitigating or remitting the penalties and forfeitures accruing under the revenue laws in certain cases, be and the same hereby are continued in force until the end of the next session of Congress, and no longer.

Approved, March 2, 1795.