Volume 14
Public Law 39–CCCIX
to extend the Jurisdiction of Commissioners of the Circuit Courts of the United States.
Approved July 28, 1866
Statutory text
An Act
to extend the Jurisdiction of Commissioners of the Circuit Courts of the United States.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the commissioners who
Commissioners of the circuit courts may exercise powers of justice of peace, under act 1790, ch. 29, § 7.
Vol. i. p. 134.
now are, or hereafter may be, appointed by the circuit courts of the United States to take acknowledgments of bail and affidavits, and also to take depositions in civil causes, shall and may exercise all the powers that any justice of the peace may exercise under and in virtue of the seventh section of the act passed the twentieth of July, anno Domini seventeen hundred and ninety, entitled “An act for the government and regulation of seamen in the merchant service.”
Approved, .