THIRTIETH CONGRESS—FIRST SESSION.
H. R. 337.
(No Report.)
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
March 14, 1848.
Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on the
state of the Union.
Mr. Joseph R. Ingersoll, from the Committee on the Judiciary,
reported the following bill:
A BILL
To repeal so much of the thirtieth section of the act to establish
the judicial courts of the United States as authorizes
the taking of depositions de bene esse, without notification
to the adverse party.
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives of the United States of America in Congress
assembled
, That the thirtieth section of the act, approved
September twenty-fourth, seventeen hundred and eighty-
nine, entitled “An act to establish the judicial courts of the
United States,” be, and the same is hereby, modified and
changed, by striking out and repealing the words, “if either
is within one hundred miles of the place of such caption,”
and the notification therein provided for shall be given in
all cases whatever of the taking of a deposition de bene
esse.

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