United States Statutes at Large/Volume 2/9th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 18
Chap. XVIII.—An Act further supplementary to the act, intituled “An act concerning the District of Columbia.”
Act of Feb. 27, 1801, ch. 15.
Act of May 3, 1802, ch. 53.
Provisions of a former act respecting writs of capias ad satisfaciendum repealed.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That so much of the act, intituled “An act additional to, and amendatory of an act, intituled An act concerning the district of Columbia,” as directs that no capias ad satisfaciendum shall thereafter issue on any judgment rendered by a single magistrate, or in any case where the judgment shall not exceed twenty dollars, shall be, and the same is hereby repealed, and in all such cases a writ or writs of capias ad satisfaciendum may hereafter issue, any thing in the said recited act to the contrary notwithstanding.
Said writs made returnable as if that act has not passed, &c.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That such writs of capias ad satisfaciendum shall be issued, directed, and made returnable in like manner, and the clerk and constable shall be entitled to the same fees therein, as the said act herein before recited directs and allows in cases of executions against the goods and chattels of the debtor.
Part of former act repealed.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the eighth section of the aforesaid act shall be, and the same is hereby also repealed.
Approved, February 24, 1807.