United States Statutes at Large/Volume 3/17th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 57
Chap. LVII.—An Act for the relief of certain insolvent debtors.
Act of March 3, 1803, ch. 31.
The provisions in the act for the relief of insolvent debtors within the District of Columbia, which requires a year’s residence, repealed.
Proviso.
This act in force from its passing.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That so much of the seventeenth section of the act, entitled “An act for the relief of insolvent debtors within the District of Columbia,” approved on the third day of March, one thousand eight hundred and three, as declares that the provisions of the said act shall not be construed to extend to any debtor who has not resided in the District of Columbia one year next preceding his application for relief under the said act, shall be, and the same is hereby, repealed: Provided, That no discharge under this act, or the act to which it is amendatory, shall operate against any creditor residing without the limits of the District of Columbia, except the creditor at whose instance the debtor may be confined. This act shall commence and be in force from and after the passing thereof.
Approved, May 6, 1822.