Punishment for said offence, &c.United States, and all persons advising, or knowingly and willingly participating in such embezzlement, upon being convicted thereof before any court of the United States of competent jurisdiction, shall, for every such offence, forfeit and pay to the United States a fine equal to the amount of the money embezzled, and shall suffer imprisonment for a term not less than six months nor more than five years.
Act of June 23, 1836, ch. 115, excepting 13th and 14th secs., repealed.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the act entitled “An act to regulate the deposits of the public money,” approved on the twenty-third day of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, excepting the thirteenth and fourteenth sections thereof, be and the same hereby is repealed.
So much of act of 14th April, 1836, ch. 52, as prohibits the payment by the U. S. of bank notes under certain denominations, repealed.Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That so much of an act, passed the fourteenth of April, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, entitled “An act making appropriations for the payment of the Revolutionary and other pensioners of the United States, for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-six,” as provides that no bank note of less denomination than ten dollars, and after the third day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, no bank note of less denomination than twenty dollars, shall be offered in payment in any case whatsoever, in which money is to be paid by the United States, or the Post Office Department, be, and the same hereby is, repealed.
Approved, August 13, 1841.
Statute Ⅰ.
Chap. VIII.—An Act to provide for the payment of Navy Pensions.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Appropriation. That the sum of one hundred and thirty-nine thousand six hundred and sixty-six dollars and six cents is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the payment of pensions and half-pay chargeable on the navy pension fund: Provided, That all widows or children of all naval officers, seamen, or marines,Proviso; pensions under act 3d March 1837, ch. 38, limited.
No widow, &c. of any naval officer, &c. who may hereafter die, entitled, under the act of 1837, ch. 38.
No officer, &c. shall receive pay as a pensioner and officer in service. now deceased, and entitled to receive or make proof of their pensions under the act of the third of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, shall receive the same until the close of the next session of Congress; but no widows or children of any naval officer, seaman, or marine, who may hereafter die, shall be entitled to any pension by virtue only of any provision in the said act.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That no officer, seaman, or marine, entitled to a pension from the navy pension fund, who receives pay from the public treasury, shall receive more from said fund than is sufficient to make the whole amount received from both the above-named sources equal to the pay fixed by law for the grade to which the officer, seaman, or marine may belong as an officer in the services in which he may be engaged, during the year, so that no officer shall receive pay at the same time both as a pensioner and an officer in service.
Approved, August 16, 1841.
Statute Ⅰ.
Chap. IX.—An Act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States.[1]
Uniform system of bankruptcy establ’d.
All persons owing debts not created by defalcation, &c. may be declared bankrupts.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be, and hereby is, established throughout the United States, a uniform system of bank-
- ↑ See notes of the decisions of the courts of the United States on the bankrupt act of April 4, 1800, vol. 2, 19.
In the case of Nelson, a petitioner in bankruptcy, in the Kentucky district, and Carland, an opposing creditor, several points were adjourned by the district to the circuit court. Upon the hearing of the case in the circuit court, the district judge, as well as the justice of the Supreme Court, sat in the case; and,
