United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/28th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 2
Chap. II.—An Act to correct a clerical error in the act supplementary to an act to regulate arrests on mesne process in the District of Columbia, and to amend the title thereof.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Correction of the error.
Act of June 17, 1844, ch. 100. That the act entitled “An act supplementary to an act entitled ‘An act to regulate arrests on mesne process in the District of Columbia,’” approved June seventeenth, eighteen hundred and forty-four, be corrected, so as to insert, between the words “and” and “in,” in the sixth line, the words “in cases where the principal of the debt exceeds that amount, no person shall be imprisoned as aforesaid, except.”
Title amended.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the title of the said act be amended by adding the words: “and to abolish imprisonment for debt in the District of Columbia, except in cases of fraud.”
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That nothing in the said act Certain suits or actions excepted.passed the seventeenth of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, or in this act, shall be so construed as to extend to any suit or action brought by the corporate authorities of either of the cities of the said District to recover a penalty imposed by any ordinance or by law of such corporation for an infraction of its by-laws and ordinances.
Approved, February 4, 1845.