The Clerk read the remainder of the bill. The 1st section provides that write of attachment and ishments shall be issued by the clerk of tesupreme court of the District, without any authority or warrant from any judge or justice, whenever the plaintiff, his agent or attorney, shall file in the clerks office, whether at the commencement or during the endency of the suit, an affidavit, supported by the testimony of one or more witnesses showing the grounds upon which he bases his affidavit, and also setting forth that the laint ifi" has a just right to recover against e de fendant what he claims in the declaration, and also stating either 1st, that the defendant is a nonresident of the District; or, 2nd, that the defendant evades the service of ordinary process by concealing himself or bywith drawm from the District temporarily; or, 3rd, at he has removed or is about to remove some of his property from the District so as to defeat just demands against him; and shall also file his (the plaintiffs) undertaking, with sufficient surety or sureties, to make good all costs and damages which the defendant may sustain by reason of the wrongful suing out of the attachment; provided, however that if the defendant, his agent or attorney, shall file an affidavit traversing the said aflidavit, the court shall determine whether the facts set forth in said plaintifl" s affidavit are true, and that there was just ground for issuing said writ or warrant of attachment; and if the court shall deem the facts do not sustain the affida vit, he shall quash the writ of attachment or arnishment; and this issue may be tried by a judge at chambers on 3 days notice and the thing attached shall not be discharged from the custed of the officer seizing it until the defendants all deliver, either to the officer ortothe clerk,to be filed in the cause, his.undertaking, With sufficient surety or sure ties, to satisfy and ay the final judgment of the court against im; and in case the de fendant befound liable to the plaintifi" s claim, in whole or in part, the final judgment shall be that the plaintiff recover against the de fendant and his surety or sureties; and if the defendant fail to execute such undertaking the court may sell the thing attached whenever it is satisfied that it is the interest of the parties that it should be sold before final judgment. The next section provides that from and after the passage of this act the annual salaries of the chief justice and associate justices of the an reme court of the DistCol instead of the amount now fixed by law, shall be as follows: for the chief justice $4, 500, and for each of the associate justices $4,000.