ited States of America in Congress assembled:

That the persons who have been, or may hereafter be appointed
commissioners, in virtue of any Act of Congress, by the circuit
courts of the United States, and who, in consequence of such
appointment, are authorized to exercise the powers that any
justice of the peace or other magistrate of any of the United
States, may exercise in respect to offenders for any crime or
offence against the United States, by arresting, imprisoning, or
bailing the same under and by virtue of the thirty-third section
of the act of the twenty-fourth of September, seventeen hundred
and eighty-nine, entitled, "An act to establish the judicial
courts of the United States," shall be, and are hereby
authorized and required to exercise and discharge all the powers
and duties conferred by this act.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted: That the superior court of
each organized territory of the United States, shall have the
same power to appoint commissioners to take acknowledgments of
bail and affidavit, and to take depositions of witnesses in
civil causes, which is now possessed by the circuit courts of
the United States, and all commissioners, who shall hereafter be
appointed for such purposes, by the superior court of any
organized territory of the United States, shall possess all the
powers, and exercise all the duties conferred by law, upon the
commissioners appointed by the circuit courts of the United
States for similar purposes, and shall, moreover, exercise and
discharge all the powers and duties conferred by this act.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted: That the circuit courts of
the United States, and the superior courts of each organized
territory of the United States, shall, from time to time,
enlarge the number of Commissioners, with a view to afford
reasonable facilities to reclaim fugitives from labor, and to
the prompt discharge of the duties imposed by this act.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, that the commissioners above
named, shall have concurrent jurisdiction with the judges of the
circuit and district courts of the United States, in their
respective circuits and districts within the several States, and
the judges of the superior courts of the Territories severally
and collectively, in term time and vacation; and shall grant