Message from the president of the United States : accompanying a representation from the judge of the District of Pennsylvania, and a report of the attorney-general, relative to certain inconveniencies and disagreeable consequences which have occured in the execution of the act passed the twenty-eighth of May, 1796, intituled "An act for the relief of persons imprisoned for debt." : January 18th, 1798. Committed to the committee of the whole House, to whom is committed the report of the Committee of Commerce and Manufactures on the petition of William Bell. : Printed by order of the House of Representatives.