■Sec.  27.  Provided^  nevertheless^  That  no  citizen  or  inhabit^int  of
the  United  States,  who  shall  have  contracted  debts  prior  to  his  en*
teriog  into,  the  service  of  any  ambassador  or  4»tber  public  minister,
which  debts  shall  be  still  4}ue  and  unpaid,  shall  have,  take,  or  re-
ceive, any  benefit  of  this  act ;,  i^or  shall  any  person  be  pfoceeded
a^nst  by  virttfe  of  this  act,  ror  having  aitrested  or  sued  any  other
domestic  servant  of  any  ambassador  or, other  public  minister,  Unless
the  name  of  such  servant  be  first  registered  in  the  office  of  the
Secretary  of  Statie,  and  by  such  Secretary  transmitted  to  the  mar-
shal of  the  District  in  which  Congress  shall  reside,  v^ho  shall,  upon
receipt  thereof,  affix  the  same  in  some  public  place  in  his  office^
whereto  all  persons  may  resort  and  <ake  copies  without  fbe  or  re-
ward. -     '

Sec.  28.  That  if  any  person  shall  violate  any  safe*condnct  ot
passport  duly  obtained  and  issued  under  the  authority  of  the  United
States;  or  ^all  assault,  strike,  wounij,  imprison,  or  in  aQy  other
manner  infract  the  law  of  tiations,  by  offering  violence  to  the  person
of  an  ambassador  or  other  public  ininister,  such  person  so  offending,
on  conviction,  ^hall  be  imprisoned  not  exceeding  three  years,  and
fined  at  the  discretion,  of  the  Court.
