Private Law 7–XXXVIII

That Joshua Harvey, Augustine Baughan, Isaiah Mankin, Richard Caton, and Frederick Kast, shall not, nor shall either of them be liable to imprisonment for any debt or debts contracted by them to the United States, prior to the committing of the several acts of bankruptcy, upon which they were respectively declared bankrupts: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be construed in any manner to impair the right of the United States, to satisfaction of any debt due from either of the above named persons, out of any property which they may hereafter respectively acquire, or out of the effects of the said bankrupts, which are now in, or may hereafter come to the hands of the respective assignees, nor to affect any security which may have been given by the said bankrupts: And provided, also, That in case it shall at any time appear, that either of the said bankrupts has been guilty of any concealment of property, or of any manner of fraud,

Act of April 4, 1800, ch. 19.

in violation of the provisions of the act entitled “An act to establish an uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States,” such person against whom such fraud or concealment shall be so proved, shall forfeit and lose the whole benefit of this act.