Note 123 — Chapter VIII
Reading edition
Statutes at Large, III. 600–1. This act was in reality a continuation of the piracy Act of 1819, and was only temporary. The provision was, however, continued by several acts, and finally made perpetual by the Act of Jan. 30, 1823: Statutes at Large, III. 510–4, 721. On March 3, 1823, it was slightly amended so as to give district courts jurisdiction.