_Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United 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.
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