The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-06-26
OFFICIAL.

ing for the lands and opyate citizens taker
and appropriated, by order of the Department of the
terror for Indian reservations and uses In the Territory
Washington and the claims herein provided to be paid
shall be allowed and paid in such and upon such
proofs of the value Of the property shall be prescribed
by the Secretary of the Interior
Approved February %, 1855.
AN ACT to facilitate the Collection of certain Debts due
| the United States.
Be enacted by the Senate and House Of Representatives
fate United States Of america IN Conqress assembled
That In all where debts due from postmastes
nailcontacfors other officers agents or employees
the Post-0ice Department. who are in default or delin
quency warrant Of attachment may issue against all
property real and PERSONAL possessions and rights legal
equitable and contingent, belonging to such officer and
and his seties, either of thcm in the following
First. When any such officer, agent, employee, and
s suretes either Of thc has within the meaning OF
the act of July seventeen eighteen hundred and sixtwO
chapter hundred and nnety-ive and the proclama-
ton Of the President in pursuance thereof dated the
twenyith day Of July eighteen hundred and sixtytwo,
anticipated in aided abeted countenanced any rebel
| lion against the United States.
Second When such officer, agent or employee and his
surees either of them is nonresident of the district
where such officer was appointed or has departed from
such district for the purpose of residing permanently out
of such district OF defrauding the United States or Of
| avoiding the service of civil process.
Third. When such officer his sureties or either Of
tn has conveyed away about to convey away his
property, any part thereof has removed is about
to remove his property or any part thereof from the dis
ric wherein thesamc situated with intent deaud the
United States. And where such removal has taken place
erted copies of the warrant may besen to the marshal OF
any other district into which such property may have been
ovel under which certified copies ii shall be lawful for
marshal to seize such property and convey it to some
convenient point within the jurisdiction the court from
which the warrant originally issued Alias warrants may
issue upon due application and the validity of the war
first issued shall continue until the return day there
| If.
SEC. q And be IL further enacted That application fol-
nch warrant may be made by any district attorney or as
sstan district attorney or any other person authorized
by the PostmasterGener before any judge or in his
sence before any clerk OF any court of the United States
atng original jurisdiction Of the of action Snc
application shall he made upon affidavit of the appi
can't other credible person. stating the existence
either OF the grounds OF attachment enumerated in the
rst section OF this act and upon production of legal EVIL
demo OF the debt Upon such application and upon
order of any judge of the court in the absence of any
ise without such order, the clerk shall issue warrant
or the attachment of all the property OF any kind belong
'T to the party parties specified in the affidavit which
warrant shall be executed with all possible despatch by
marshal who shall take the property attached if per-
sona into his custody and hold the ect to ali in
cerlocutory or final orders of the court.
Sec g. And be further enacted That the party or par
ties whose property Is attached may, at any time within
twenty days before the return day Of the warrant Civ
ing to the district attorney notice of his intention file
plea in Abatement trversing the allegations of the Nda
w.t. denying the ownership of the popery attached in
the defendants either of them in which ease the court
may upon application Of either party, order immediate
trial by jury of the issue raised by the affidavit and plea
But the parties may by consent, trial by jury in
which the shall decide the issues raised by the
affidavit and plea Any party claiming ownership Of the
property attached and specific return of the shall
be confined to the remedy afforded by this act but his
right TO action of r?spass other action for damages
hall not he impaired hereby.
SEC !. And be ii FURTHER enacted That when the proper
ty attached shall be sold on any nerlocutoy order of the
COURT when it shall be producing any revenue the
ney arising from such sale revenue shall be invested In
securities Of the United States under the order of the
curt and all accrctions shall be held subject to the order
of the court.
SEC 5. And be Hfn,taer enacted That Immediately up
on the execution OF the warrant of attachment the
hals lS Of
made in the case of Ascending debtors or aherens OF
the rebellion for two months and of non-residens
for four months. Such publication shall be made in some
newspaper or newspapers within the district where the
property attached Is situated and the details of such pub
ication shall be regulated in each by the order under
which the warrant is issued.
Sec @. And be further enacted That after the first
publication OF such notice ofattachment in all tho news
papers required by this any subsequent act every per-
on indebted to the defendants either Of them and ay-
ing knowledge OF such notice. whose property Is liable TO
attachment, and every person having possession of any
property belonging to such defendants or either of them
Ind having knowledge aforesaid shall account and an
Swer for the amount of such debt and for the value of such
property and disposal attempt to dispose of any
such property to the injury of the United States shall be
Illegal and void When the person persons indebted
10 or having possession OF the property of such defendants
or either OF them, shall be known to the district attorney
the marshall shall be the duty of such officer to see
that personal notice Of such attachment is served upon
such persons as in of garnshees but the want
'uch notice shall not invalidate the attachment
SEC And be ii further enacted That upon applica-
ton Oh party WHOSE property been attached
court or any judge thereof may discharge the
Enactment as to the property of the applicant Provided
That such applicant shall enter into and the
United States good and sufficient penal bond In double
he amount of the value of the property attached cond
toned for the return Of said property to any
Judgment which may be rendered by the court in tn,
premises which bond shall be approved by tho court Oh
any Judge thereof.
SEC. S. And be further enacted That the fees, costs
Ind expenses of issuing and serving the warrants Of al
chment authorized by this act shall be regulated as
possible by the existing laws Of the United States
rules OF court made in pursuance thereof In tho
lfprelimnary trials as to the validity of the attachment
the right of property clerks and marshals fees shall b.
ne same us in ordinary cases. and the docket fee of tn,
istrict attorney shall be ten dollars.
SEC. o. And be 1t further enacted, That this act shall
ot be construed so as to limit or abridge in any
ch rights of the United States have accrued beel
flowed in any district under the former practice of thu
United States courts or the adoption of State laws by sail
| ourts
Approved, February %, 1865.
An ACT to amend an Act entitled "An Act to amend az
Act to incorporate the Inhabitants of the City of Wash
ngton passed May fifteen eighteen hundred and TWEEN
four
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representative
fthe United States of america in Congress assembled
hat the act approved May fifth, eighteen hundre'
'nd sixty-fonr entitled San act to amend AN act t.
cooperate the inhabitants of the city of Washington
sssed May fifteen eighteen hundred and twenty" b
nstrued amended so as to read follows That the sa
corporation shall have full power and authority to la
axes on particular wards, parts sections of the city
or their particular local improvements, and to caus
he curbtones to be set the foot and carriage ways
much thereof they may deem best to be graded
oayed to introduce the necessary sewerage and dranag
abilities under and upon the whole any portion of
venue street. alley; to cause the to be sAtab
paved and repaired and at all times propey cleaned
yatered to lamps to be erected therein and t.
light the and to pay the cost thereof the corpora
ion of Washington is hereby authorized to lay and col
ect tax upon all property bordering upon each street
alley that may be paved severed, lighted, cleane1 o
yatered by said corporation in accordance with the pre-
visions of this act And also to layo cause to be ait
| simultaneously with the grading or paving Of an
venue street. or alley in which a main water-ppe o
main gas-pipe, main may have been laid, waite
gas service pipes lateral house drains, from suc
gas main main sewer to one foot within tn
uTb line in front of every lot or sub-divsona part OF
lot which may bound such avenue, street, or alloy
70 which gas water service pipe or house drain ma
not have already laid and tOpay thereof sha
ave power and authority to lay and collect specia
TAX on every such lot or sub-dyisonal part OF lot
| Approved, February % 1865.
An ACT to incorporate the Sisters of Mercy in the Di:
trict of Columbia
Be IL enacted By the Senate and House of Representa-
tprs Of the United States Of Amerca in Congress
bed That Isabel Atkinson, Elizabeth Medcalf Teres
| yrne Ellen Matthews, Mary Duffy, Teresa Moran an
Ellen Wynne and their successors, hereafter to becom
Sisters of Mercy aud to he appointed according TO til
rules and regulations that have been may hereafter
established by their association be- and they hereby
made declared, and constituted corporation bod,
polite in law and in fact to have continuance forever b.
the name STYLE and title OF the sisters OF Mercy in til
District of Columbia
Sec g And be further enacted, That a and singula
the lands, houses tenements, rents egaces, annues
rights property privileges goods and chattes heretofore
given, granted devised bequeathed to the said Sister
Jf Mercy in the District of Columbia to any ndyid
nal of the said corporation, to any person person
for the use of said corporation that have been puT
chased for or on account Of the be- and they
reby vested in, and confirmed to- the said corporation
and that the said corporation may purchase, take