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REPEAL PROVISIONS. 
Title lxxiv. 
Sec. 5595. The foregoing seventy-three titles embrace the statutes of the 
United States general and permanent in their nature, in force on the 1st day of 
December, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, as revised and con¬ 
solidated by commissioners appointed under an act of Congress, and the same 
shall be designated and cited as The Revised Statutes of the United States. 
Sec. 5596. All acts of Congress passed prior to said first dav of December, 
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, any portion of which is embraced 
in any section of said revision, are hereby repealed, and the section applicable 
thereto shall be in force in lieu thereof; all parts of such acts not contained in 
such revision, having been repealed or superseded by subsequent acts, or not 
being general and permanent in their nature : Provided , That the incorporation 
into such revision of any general and permanent provision, taken from an act 
making appropriations, or from an act containing other provisions of a private, 
local or temporary character, shall not repeal, or in any way affect any appro¬ 
priation, or any provision of a private, local, or temporary character, contained 
in any of said acts, but the same shall remain in force; and all acts of Congress 
passed prior to said last-named day no part of which are embraced in said revis¬ 
ion, shall not be affected or changed by its enactment. 
Sec. 5597. The repeal of the several acts embraced in said revision, shall not 
affect any act done, or any right accruing or accrued, or any suit or proceeding 
had or commenced in any civil cause before the said repeal, but all rights and 
liabilities under said acts shall continue, and may be enforced in the same man¬ 
ner, as if said repeal had not been made; nor shall said repeal, in any manner 
affect the right to any office, or change the term or tenure thereof. 
Sec. 5598. All offenses committed, and all penalties or forfeitures incurred 
under any statute embraced in said revision prior to said repeal, may be piose- 
cuted and punished in the same manner and with the same effect, as if said repeal 
had not been made. 
Sec. 5599. All acts of limitation, whether applicable to civil causes and pro¬ 
ceedings, or to the prosecution of offenses, or for the recovery of penalties or 
forfeitures, embraced in said revision and covered by said repeal, shall not be 
affected thereby, but all suits, proceedings or prosecutions, whether civil or crim¬ 
inal, for causes arising, or acts done or committed prior to said repeal, may be 
commenced and prosecuted within the same time as if said repeal had not been 
made. 
Sec. 5600. The arrangement 
and classification of the several sections of the 
