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Debtors' Prison Relief Act of 1792 was a United States federal statute enacted into law by the first President of the United States George Washington on May 5, 1792. The Act of Congress established penal regulations and restrictions for persons jailed for property debt, tax evasion , and tax resistance .
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Debtors who had the means to pay their debt, but did not do so, could still be incarcerated for up to six weeks, as could those who defaulted on debts to the court. [18] Initially, there was a significant reduction in the number of debtors imprisoned following the passage of the Debtors' Act 1869.
The Tariff of 1792 was the third of Alexander Hamilton's protective tariffs in the United States (first was the Hamilton tariff of 1789, second was the Tariff of 1790). Hamilton had persuaded the United States Congress to raise duties slightly in 1790, and he persuaded them to raise rates again in 1792, although still not to his satisfaction.
The Patient Debt Relief Act would create a federal pilot program for using government dollars to pay off medical debt for people who are at or below 250% of the poverty level or who have medical ...
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Public Laws [2]; Date Subject Matter Title Chapter Legal Citation (link to full text)1: February 8, 1790: Laws of the United States, giving effect to, in North Carolina. An Act for giving effect to the several acts therein mentioned, in respect to the state of North Carolina, and for other purposes.
An Act to repeal so much of an Act, passed in the First Year of His present Majesty King George the Third, intituled, "An Act for Relief of Insolvent Debtors," [a] as relates to Creditors compelling Prisoners to deliver up their Estates, and to such Prisoners being thereupon discharged. (Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1867 (30 & 31 Vict ...