made over to said bank, or which would in any manner have become the property of said bank had the same continued in existence in any action, suit, judgment, or execution aforesaid or otherwise, shall enure to the trustee or trustees, assignee or assignees, receiver or receivers of said bank, if any shall be appointed by the stockholders or otherwise.
Trustees, &c. to have power to commence suits, &c., and prosecute to final judgment and execution.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the trustee or trustees, assignee or assignees, receiver or receivers, who may be appointed to collect and receive the assets of any bank whose charter shall expire as aforesaid, and to adjust, settle, and liquidate, the debts due from said banks, shall have full power to commence and institute all necessary actions, suits, or other proceedings, in law or equity, in the name of said bank, and prosecute the same to final judgment and execution,Proviso. Provided, That the Court in which such legal or equitable proceeding shall be commenced, shall first receive sufficient security for the costs which may be recovered by the opposite party.
Approved, June 17, 1844.
Statute Ⅰ.
Chap. XCIX.—An Act to enable the War Department to supply certain balances of appropriation, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Balances under acts June 12, 1838, ch. 97, and March 3, 1839, ch. 93, how to be applied. That the President of the United States is hereby authorized to direct the application of any balances now remaining in the treasury, or which may come into the treasury on the settlement of accounts under any of the specific heads of appropriation in the acts of the twelfth June eighteen hundred and thirty-eight and third March eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, to any arrearages chargeable to the general head of suppression of Indian hostilities.
Balances under acts of April 29, 1836, ch. 57, June 12, 1838, ch. 97, and March 3, 1839, ch. 93, re-appropriated.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the balances of appropriations made twenty-ninth April eighteen hundred and thirty-six, twelfth June, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight and third March eighteen hundred and thirty-nine for suppression of Indian hostilities, which have been carried to the surplus fund, be and the same are hereby re-appropriated for the settlement of arrearages for suppression of Indian hostilities so far as the same may be necessary in the payment of accounts audited and passed for settlement by the accounting officers of the Treasury.
Approved, June 17, 1844.
Statute Ⅰ.
Chap. C.—An Act supplementary to an act entitled “An act to regulate arrest on mesne process in the District of Columbia,” approved August first, eighteen hundred and forty-two.
1853, ch. 40.
No person to be held to bail or imprisoned in a civil action, when the debt is less than $50, &c.
1845, ch. 2.
Proviso.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That no person shall hereafter be held to bail or imprisoned in any civil action in the District of Columbia, in any case where the debt or claim, exclusive of interest and costs, is less than fifty dollars, and in cases where he may have been, or shall hereafter be, held to bail under the act, to which this is a supplement; and that every person who at the time of the passage of this act, shall be held in prison or prison bounds, in any civil action, except in the cases hereinbefore mentioned, shall thereupon be immediately discharged: Provided, That if any plaintiff in any civil action after judgment shall have been obtained by him or her, shall make oath according to law, that the defendant or defendants has or have conveyed away, lessened, or disposed of his or their property, rights, or credits, or is, or are about to remove, or hath or have removed, his or their property from this District, as he or she believes
