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. P 3 INDE X. The letters denote the Volume, and the figures A Abatement, not to take place for defect of form in writs, i. 72 act for fettling, 29. 244. -against the United States, how to be fettled, i. 38 of the United States, to be authenticated under the 43 fion, cannot take place without the affent of the |