cution or or other ca pital of No profe- unless the indictment for the same shall be found punishment by a grand jury within three years next after for treafon the treason or capital offence aforesaid shall be 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 unwithin 3 der any penal statute, unless the indictment or information for the same shall be found or incafes unless stituted within two years from the time of indictment years, nor in other within 2 years; committing the offence, or incurring the fine or forfeiture aforesaid: Provided, That nothing except the herein contained shall extend to any perfon or perfons fleeing from justice. offender flce. Punish ment of death be Sec. 33. And be it further enacted, That the manner of inflicting the punishment of by hanging. death, shall be by hanging the perfon convicted by the neck until dead. FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG, JOHN ADAMS, Vice-President of the United APPROVED, April the 30th, 1790: GEORGE WASHINGTON, President of the United States. CHAPTER X. An Act for regulating the Military Establishment of the United States. (REPEALED.) CHAPTER XI. An Act to prescribe the Mode in which the public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings, in each State, shall be authenticated so as to take Effect in every other State. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress afssembled, That the acts of the Legislative legiflatures of the several states shall be authen- cords and ticated by having the seal of their respective judicial states affixed thereto: That the records and ings of the several thentica judicial proceedings of the courts of any state, states, how shall be proved or admitted in any other court to be au within the United States, by the attestation of ted; and the clerk, and the feal of the court annexed, if there be a feal, together with a certificate of the judge, chief justice, or prefiding magiftrate, as the cafe may be, that the faid attestation is in due form. And the faid records and judi- the effect cial proceedings authenticated as aforesaid, thereof. shall have fuch faith and credit given to them in every court within the United States, as they have by law or usage in the courts of the state from whence the faid records are, or shall be taken. FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN ADAMS, Vice-President of the United States, and President of the Senate. APPROVED, May twenty-fixth, 1790: Mitigation orremiffion CHAPTER XII. An Act to provide for mitigating or remitting the Section 1. E B Hot fald presente f it enacted by the Senate and the of penalties, United States of America in Congress affembled, &c. how to That whenever any person who now is, or forandied hereafter shall be liable to a fine, penalty or by whom granted; forfeiture, or interested in any veffel, goods, wares or merchandize, or other thing which may be fubject to seizure 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, shall prefer his petition to the judge of the district in which such fine, penalty or forfeiture may have accrued, truly and particularly fetting forth the circumstances of his cafe, and shall pray that the fame may be mitigated or remitted; the faid judge shall enquire in a fummary manner into the circumstances of the cafe, first caufing reasonable 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 district, that each may have an opportunity of shewing cause against the mitigation or remiffion thereof; and shall caufe the facts which shall appear upon fuch enquiry, to be stated and annexed to the petition, and direct their transmission to the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, who shall thereupon have power to mitigate or remit such fine, penalty or forfeiture, or any part thereof, if in his opinion the fame was incurred without wilful negligence or any intention of fraud, and to direct the profecution, if any shall have been instituted for the recovery thereof, to ceafe and be discontinued, upon fuch terms or conditions as he may deem reafonable and just. Provided, That nothing Not to afherein contained shall be construed to affect fect cases of previous inthe right or claim of any person, 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 passing of this act; the amount of which right and claim shall 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 Continu act shall continue and be in force until the act. end of the next feffion of Congress, and no longer. FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG, APPROVED, May twenty-fixth, 1790: States, and President of the Senate. GEORGE WASHINGTON, President of the United States. 1 CHAPTER XIII. 66 An Act An Act to continue in Force an Act paffed at the (EXPIRED.) CHAPTER XIV. An Act for the Government of the Territory of the United States, fouth of the River Ohio. (EXPIRED.) 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." Section 1. Be Houge the E it enacted by the Senate and of Representatives of charts and United States of America in Congress assembled, Authors of maps, books; That from and after the passing of this act, the author and authors of any map, chart, book or books already printed within these United States, being a citizen or citizens thereof, or refident within the fame, his or their executors, administrators or assigns, who hath or have not transferred to any other person the |