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Resolved that the Committee on the Judiciary be instructed to inquire into the expediency of amending the Act of April 30th 1790 entitled “an Act for the punishment of certain crimes against the United States” so as to provide more effectually for the punishment of depredations on the Mail of the United States and of extending the limitation for the commencement of indictments or informations beyond the period of two years or of abolishing the same altogether—and that the letter of James Hutcheson a Post Master in Georgia refering to that subject together with a letter of the Post Master General to the Chairman of the Committee on Post offices and Post Roads, of the 7th Jany last, be refered with this resolution to the said Committee on the Judiciary.

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Report
Resolution from the Com on Post Off and Post Roads
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from Committee.
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Goggin 45 asks
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Cls
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Judiciary
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Mr. Goggin on the expediency of amending the Act of 30th April 1790
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Feby 29th '48
Agreed to.

Handwritten Document, 2 page(s), RG 233, Entry 362: Records of the United States House of Representatives, Thirtieth Congress, 1847-1849, Records of Legislative Proceedings, Bills and Resolutions Originating in the House, 1847-1849, NAB