Message from the President of the United States accompanying a representation from the judge of the district of Pennsylvania and a report of the Attorney-General
Subtitle: relative to certain inconveniences and disagreeable consequences which have ocurred in the excecution of the act passed the twenty-eighth of May 1796, intituled "An act for the relief of persons imprisoned for debt" : January 18th, 1798, committed to the committee of the whole House, to whom is committed the report of the Committee of Commerce and Manufactures on the Petition of William Bell.
Contributors: Adams, John, 1735-1826.; Lee, Charles, 1758-1815.; Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed by Joseph Gales ...
Published: 1798
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Subjects: Debt, Imprisonment for -- United States -- Early works to 1800.
Notes: Evans 34800
"Printed by order of the House of Representatives".
Charles Lee was the Attorney General in Adams' administration.