INDE X

TO THE

LAWS

OF THE

United States of America;

CONTAINING

A DIGEST OF THE SAME,

ARRANGED UNDER GENERAL HEADS.

THE object of the following index is, to exbibit

under proper and particular heads, references to the pages in the body of the work: and, under general beads, a fyftematic abridgement of the laws, with a like reference to the pages. As the acts relative to each fubject were difperfed through all the volumes, owing to their being paffed at different feffions, it was believed that it would greatly facilitate the acquiring of a knowledge of them, to prefent, in one view, the whole law relating to each particular fubject. But as the acts impofing the duty of impoft were paffed at different periods, and the duty at each time varied, it was found to be very difficult to exhibit in detail, each article of import fubject to a duty with a reference to the pages of every act. It was, therefore, thought beft, to prefent without fuch reference, a detailed view of the duty on each specific article, in an alphabetical arrangement,-by a recurrence to which, the duty on imports can be afcertained with eafe and precifion.

UNDER THE FOLLOWING GENERAL

HEADS, WILL BE FOUND

The Abridgement of the Laws.

Aliens.

Appropriations.

Bank of the United States.

Coafting Trade.

Commiffioners of the Sinking Fund.

Copy-Right.

Crimes.

Debt of the United States.

Drawbacks.

Duties.

Duties, Collection of.

Fisheries.

Government, Seat of, established.

Imprisonment for Debt, Relief in Cafes of

Intercourfe with foreign Nations.

VOL. III.

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INDE X.

The letters denote the Volume, and the figures
denote the Pages.

A

Abatement, not to take place for defect of form in writs,
declarations, proceffes, returns, judgments, or
other proceedings in civil caufes,

i. 72
Accounts between the United States and individual states,

act for fettling,
-time extended,

29. 244.
ii. 14. 209

-against the United States, how to be fettled, i. 38
-of the U. States to be kept in dollars, &c. ii. 46
-against officers of the revenue and holders of public
money, when adjusted, to be put in fuit, iii. 421
Acceffaries in murder, robbery, or piracy on the high
feas, before the fact. punishable with death; and
after the fact, by fine and imprisonment, i. 104
Acts of the ftates, and all judical proceedings, to have
full credit,
i. 16
of the States to be authenticated by the feal of the
several states,
115
-of the courts, and all judicial proceedings, by attes-
tation of the clerk, the feal of the court, and the cer-
tificate of the prefiding judge or magiftrate, that the
attestation is in due form,
115

of the United States, to be authenticated under the
feal of the Secretary of State,
Adjournment of Congrefs, by one House during the fef-

43

fion, cannot take place without the affent of the
other, for more than three days, nor to any other
place than that in which the two Houses are fit-
ting,
i. 8
-of Congress, in cafe of difagreement between the
Houses, the Prefident of the United States may
adjourn them to fuch time as he may think fit, 15