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against such garnishee, judgment shall be entered in favour of the United States, pursuant to such verdict, with costs of suit.

Persons summoned as garnishees, and failing to attend, are subject to attachment for contempt.Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, That if any person summoned as garnishee under the provisions of this act, shall fail to appear at the term of the court to which he has been summoned, he shall be subject to attachment for contempt of court.

Sec. 11. And be it further enacted, That so much of an act passed the thirtieth of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, entitled “An act to allow drawback of duties on spirits distilled and sugar refined within the United States, and for other purposes,” as allows a drawback of four cents upon every gallon of spiritsCertain parts of the act of 30th April, 1816, ch. 172, declared to be in full force and virtue. distilled from molasses, and a drawback of four cents per pound upon refined sugar exported from the United States, together with all the regulations and provisions of the said act upon the subject of the said drawbacks, shall be deemed, construes, and taken, to be and remain in full force and virtue, any act or acts to the contrary notwithstanding.

Approved, April 20, 1818.


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April 20, 1818.

Chap. LXXXIV.An Act to defray the expenses of the militia when marching to places of rendezvous.

Act of Feb. 28, 1795, ch. 36, vol. i. 424.
Expenses incurred by marching militia to places of rendezvous to be adjusted and paid in the same manner as expenses incurred after arrival.
Proviso.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the expenses incurred, or to be incurred, by marching the militia of any state or territory of the United States to their places of rendezvous, in pursuance of a requisition of the President of the United States, or which shall have been, or may be, incurred in cases of calls made by the authority of any state or territory, which shall have been, or may be, approved by him, shall be adjusted and paid in like manner as the expenses incurred after their arrival at such places of rendezvous, on the requisition of the President of the United States: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be considered as authorizing any species of expenditure, previous to arriving at the place of rendezvous, which is not provided by existing laws to be paid for after their arrival at such place of rendezvous.

Approved, April 20, 1818.


Statute I.


April 20, 1818.

Chap. LXXXVI.An Act for the relief of volunteer mounted cavalry.

Officers and privates who served in the volunteer cavalry during the late war.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That every officer, non-commissioned officer, or private, who served in any volunteer corps of cavalry during the late war, and furnished his own horse or horses, while in the public service aforesaid, shall be allowed at the rate of forty cents per day for each horse so furnished, which such officer, non-commissioned officer, or private, was entitled by law to keep in such service. And that when any officer, non-commissioned officer, or private, in the cavalry service aforesaid, having lost the horse or horses which may have been taken by him into the said service, and having received from the United States another horse or horses, in lieu or in part payment for the horse or horses so previously lost as aforesaid, such officer, non-commissioned officer, or private, shall be entitled to receive the allowance of forty cents per day for the use and risk of the horse on which he may have been so remounted.

Approved, April 20, 1818.