Thirtieth Congress,
thi Second Session,
BE IT ENACTED
By the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in
Congress Assembled.

That no person shall be imprisoned for debt, in any State, on any original writ or other process, mesne or final, issuing out of a Court of the United States, in any suit or proceeding in admiralty, founded upon a maratime contract, where by ^[...?] ^the laws of such State imprisonment for debt in cases cognizable by the courts of a State shall be abolished; and where, by the laws of a State, imprisonment for debt shall be allowed under certain conditions and restrictions, the same conditions and restrictions shall be applicable, as far as may be, to the process issuing out of the courts of the United States, in the cases aforesaid, and the same proceedings, as far as practicable, shall be had thereon, as are adopted in the courts of such State.