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before the first day of May, one thousand feven hundred and ninety-four, fhall forever after be barred and precluded from settlement or allowance: Provided, That nothing herein contained, fhall be conftrued to affect loan office certificates, certificates of final fettlement, indents of intereft, balances entered in the books of the Register of the Treasury, certificates iffued by the Register of the Treasury, commonly called registered certificates, loans of money obtained in foreign countries, or certificates iffued pursuant to the act, intitled, "An act making provifion for the debt of the United States:" And provided further, That nothing herein contained, fhall be con- ̧ ftrued to prohibit the proper officers of the treasury from demanding an account or accounts to be rendered, for any monies heretofore advanced, and not accounted for, or from admitting, under the ufual forms and reftrictions, credits for expenditures, equal to the fums which have been fo advanced.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That it fhall be the duty of the Auditor of the Treafury, to receive all fuch claims aforefaid, as have not been heretofore barred by any act claims pre- of limitation, as fhall be prefented before the time aforefaid, with the certificates, or other documents in fupport thereof, and to caufe a record to be made of the names of the perfons, and of the time when the faid claims are prefented; which record fhall be made in the prefence of the perfon or perfons prefenting the fame, and fhall be the only evidence that the faid claims were prefented, during the time limited by this act.

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Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That it fhall be the duty of the accounting officers of

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the treasury, to make report to Congrefs, upon Congrefe all fuch of the faid claims, as fhall not be al- claims lowed to be valid, according to the ufual forms valid. of the treasury.

JONATHAN TRUMBULL, Speaker
of the House of Reprefentatives.

JOHN ADAMS, Vice-Prefident of the United
States, and Prefident of the Senate.

APPROVED, February twelfth, 1793:
GEORGE WASHINGTON,
Prefident of the United States.

CHAPTER VII.

An Act refpecting Fugitives from Justice, and
Perfons efcaping from the Service of their
Mafters.

Sect. I. E it enacted by the Senate and House
of Reprefentatives of the United

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States of America, in Congress affembled, That whenever the executive authority of any ftate from justice in the Union, or of either of the territories how to be apprehend north-weft or fouth of the river Ohio, fhall ed and fe deinand any perfon as a fugitive from juftice, of the executive authority of any such state or territory to which fuch perfon fhall have fled, and shall moreover produce the copy of an indictment found, or an affidavit made before a magiftrate of any ftate or territory as aforefaid, charging the perfon fo demanded, with having committed treafon, felony or other crime, certified as authentic by the governor or chief magistrate of the flate or territory from whence the perfon fo charged, fled, it shall be the duty of the executive authority of the state or territory to which fuch perfon fhall have Bed, to caufe him or her to be arrested and se

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cured, and notice of the arreft to be given to the executive authority making such demand, or to the agent of fuch authority appointed to receive the fugitive, and to cause the fugitive to be delivered to fuch agent when he fhall appear: But if no fuch agent fhall appear within fix months from the time of the arrest, the prifoner may be difcharged. And all cofts or expenfes incurred in the apprehending, fecuring, and tranfmitting fuch fugitive to the ftate or territory making fuch demand, fhall be paid by fuch ftate or territory.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That any perfons ref agent appointed as aforefaid, who fhall receive cuing them. the fugitive into his cuftody, fhall be empow

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ered to tranfport him or her to the state or territory from which he or she fhall have fled. And if any perfon or perfons fhall by force fet at liberty, or rescue the fugitive from fuch agent while tranfporting, as aforefaid, the perfon or perfons fo offending fhall, on conviction, be fined not exceeding five hundred dollars, and be imprisoned not exceeding one year.

Sec. 3. And be it alfo enacted, That when a perfon held to labour in any of the United States, or in either of the territories on the north-weft or fouth of the river Ohio," under the laws thereof, fhall escape into any other of the faid ftates or territory, the perfon to whom fuch labour or fervice may be due, his agent or attorney, is hereby empowered to feize or arreft fuch fugitive from labour, and to take him or her before any judge of the circuit or diftrict courts of the United States, refiding or being within the state, or before any magiftrate of a county, city or town corporate, wherein fuch feizure or arrest shall be made, and upon proof to the fatisfaction of

fuch judge or magiftrate, either by oral teftimony or affidavit taken before and certified by a magiftrate of any fuch ftate or territory, that the perfon fo feized or arrested, doth, under the laws of the ftate or territory from which he or she fled, owe fervice or labour to the perfon claiming him or her, it shall be the duty of fuch judge or magiftrate to give a certificate thereof to fuch claimant, his agent or attorney, which fhall be fufficient warrant for removing the faid fugitive from labour, to the ftate or territory from which he or she fled.

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Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That any Penalty an perfon who fhall knowingly and willingly ob- obtructing ftruct or hinder fuch claimant, his agent of of fugitives attorney in fo feizing or arrefting fuch fugitive from labour, or fhall rescue fuch fugitive from fuch claimant, his agent or attorney when fo arrefted purfuant to the authority herein given or declared; or fhall harbour or conceal fuch perfon after notice that he or she was a fugitive from labour, as aforefaid, fhall, for either of the faid offences, forfeit and pay the fum of five hundred dollars. Which penalty may be recovered by and for the benefit of fuch claimant, by action of debt, in any court proper to try the fame; faving moreover to the perfon claiming fuch labour or fervice, his right of action for or on account of the faid injuries or either them.

JONATHAN TRUMBULL, Speaker
of the Houfe of Reprefentatives.

JOHN ADAMS, Vice-Prefident of the United
States, and Prefident of the Senate.

APPROVED, February twelfth, 1793:
GEORGE WASHINGTON,
Prefident of the United States.

CHAPTER VIII.

An Act for enrolling and licenfing Ships or Vef
Jels to be employed in the Coafting Trade and
Fisheries, and for regulating the fame.

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purposes," and thofe of twenty tons and upwards, which fhall be enrolled after the laft day of May next, in purfuance of this act, and having a licence in force, or if lefs than twenty tons, not being enrolled fhall have a licence in force, as is hereinafter required, and no others, fhall be deemed fhips or veffels of the United States, entitled to the privileges of fhips or veffels employed in the coafting trade or fisheries,

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That Ships to poffefs the from and after the last day of May next, in requifites order for the enrolment of any fhip or veffel, fhe fhall poffefs the fame qualifications, and the fame requifites, in all refpects, shall be complied with, as are made neceffary for regiftering ships. or veffels, by the act, intitled, "An act concerning the regiftering and recording of fhips or veffels," and the fame duties and authorities are hereby given and impofed on all officers, refpectively, in relation to obtain to fuch enrolments, and the fame proceedings eurolment. fhall be had, in fimilar cafes, touching fuch enrolments; and the fhips or veffels fo enrolled, with the mafter, or owner or owners thereof, fhall be fubject to the fame requifites, as

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