cution or or other ca indictment within 3 No profe- unless the indictment for the fame fhall be found punishment by a grand jury within three years next after for treafon the treafon or capital offence aforefaid fhall be pital of- done or committed; nor fhall any perfon be fence unless profecuted, tried or punished for any offence be found not capital, nor for any fine or forfeiture under any penal statute, unless the indictment or in other information for the fame fhall be found or in-cafes unless stituted within two years from the time of committing the offence, or incurring the fine or forfeiture aforefaid: Provided, That nothing except the herein contained fhall extend to any perfon or perfons fleeing from juftice. years, nor within 2 years; offender flce. Punishment of Sec. 33. And be it further enacted, That the manner of inflicting the punishment of by hanging. death, fhall be by hanging the perfon convicted by the neck until dead. death to be FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG, JOHN ADAMS, Vice-Prefident of the United APPROVED, April the 30th, 1790: GEORGE WASHINGTON, Prefident of the United States. CHAPTER X. An Act for regulating the Military Establishment of the United States. (REPEALED.) CHAPTER XI. An Act to prefcribe the Mode in which the public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings, in each State, fhall be authenticated fo as to take Effect in every other State. B1 acts, re judicial feveral thentica E it enacted by the Senate and House of Reprefentatives of the United States of America in Congress affembled, That the acts of the Legislative legislatures of the feveral states shall be authen- cords and ticated by having the feal of their respective proceedftates affixed thereto : That the records and ings of the judicial proceedings of the courts of any ftate, ftates, how fhall be proved or admitted in any other court to be au within the United States, by the atteftation of ted; and the clerk, and the feal of the court annexed, if there be a seal, together with a certificate of the judge, chief justice, or prefiding magiftrate, as the cafe may be, that the faid atteftation is in due form. And the faid records and judi- the effect cial proceedings authenticated as aforefaid, thereof. fhall have fuch faith and credit given to them in every court within the United States, as they have by law or ufage in the courts of the ftate from whence the faid records are, or fhall be taken, FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG, Speaker of the House of Reprefentatives. JOHN ADAMS, Vice-Prefident of the United States, and Prefident of the Senate. APPROVED, May twenty-fixth, 1790: GEORGE WASHINGTON, Mitigation orremiffion be applied for; and CHAPTER XII. An Act to provide for mitigating or remitting the Section 1. B E it enacted by the Senate and Houfe of Reprefentatives of the of penalties, United States of America in Congress affembled, &c. how to That whenever any perfon who now is, or hereafter fhall be liable to a fine, penalty or forfeiture, or interested in any veffel, goods, wares or merchandize, or other thing which may be fubject to feizure and forfeiture, by force of the laws of the United States now exifting, or which may hereafter exift, for collecting duties of impoft and tonnage, and for regulating the coafting trade, fhall prefer his petition to the judge of the district in which fuch fine, penalty or forfeiture may have accrued, truly and particularly fetting forth the circumstances of his cafe, and fhall pray that the fame may be mitigated or remitted; the faid judge fhall enquire in a fummary manner into the circumftances of the cafe, first caufing reafonable notice to be given to the perfon or perfons, claiming fuch fine, penalty or forfeiture, and to the attorney of the United States for fuch diftrict, that each may have an opportunity of fhewing caufe against the mitigation or remiffion thereof; and fhall caufe the facts which fhall appear upon fuch enquiry, to be stated and annexed to the petition, and direct their tranfmiffion to the Secretary by whom of the Treafury of the United States, who fhall thereupon have power to mitigate or remit fuch fine, penalty or forfeiture, or any part granted; thereof, if in his opinion the fame was incurred without wilful negligence or any intention of fraud, and to direct the profecution, if any fhall have been inftituted for the recovery thereof, to ceafe and be discontinued, upon fuch terms or conditions as he may deem reafonable and juft. Provided, That nothing Not to afherein contained fhall be conftrued to affect feet cafes of previous inthe right or claim of any perfon, to that part formation. of any fine, penalty or forfeiture, incurred by breach of either of the laws aforefaid, which fuch perfon may be entitled to by virtue of the faid laws, in cafes where a profecution has been commenced, or information has been given before the paffing of this act; the amount of which right and claim fhall be affeffed and valued by the judge of the district, in a fummary manner. ance of the Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Continuact fhall continue and be in force until the aa. end of the next feflion of Congrefs, and no longer. FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG, APPROVED, May twenty-fixth, 1790: GEORGE WASHINGTON, Prefident of the United States. CHAPTER XIII. An Act to continue in Force an Act passed at the laft Seffion of Congress, entitled, " An Act to regulate Proceffes in the Courts of the United States." (EXPIRED.) CHAPTER XIV. An Act for the Government of the Territory of the United States, fouth of the River Ohia. (EXPIRED.) Authors of maps, books; CHAPTER XV. An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by fecuring the Copies of Maps, Charts and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of fuch Copies, during the Times therein mentioned." B Section 1. E it enacted by the Senate and Houfe of Reprefentatives of the charts and United States of America in Congress affembled, That from and after the paffing of this act, the author and authors of any map, chart, book or books already printed within thefe United States, being a citizen or citizens thereof, or refident within the fame, his or their executors, administrators or affigns, who hath or have not transferred to any other person the |