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 tion of said collector, for the sums of their former bonds respectively, payable in twelve months from and after the day of payment specified In the bonds to be taken up or cancelled as aforesaid; and the said, collector is hereby authorized and directed to give up, or cancel, all such bonds upon the receipt of others as described in this act; which last mentioned bonds shall be proceeded with, in all respects, like other bonds which are taken by collectors for duties due to the United States: Provided, however, That nothing in this act contained shall extend to bonds which had fallen due before the twenty-sixth day of December last.

, February 19, 1803.

Be it enacted, &c., That the proper accounting officers adjust and settle the claim of Moses White, for his additional pay and emoluments as aid-de-camp to Brigadier-General Moses Hazen, from the first day of August, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-one, to the third day of November, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three, upon the same principles which have heretofore prevailed in the settlement of the accounts of aids-de-camp to brigadier-generals in the line of the revolutionary army; and that they liquidate the same in like manner as though a final settlement certificate, in the customary form, had been issued therefor, when due.

, March 2, 1803.

Be it enacted, &c., That Joshua Harvey, Augustine Baughan, Isiah 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, 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.

, March 3, 1803.