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be the same as provided herein in case the rule had issued in
the first instance.

Sec. 23. The evidence taken upon the trial of any persons
so accused may be preserved by bill of exceptions and any
judgment of conviction may be reviewed upon writ of error in
all respects as now provided by law in criminal cases, and may
be affirmed, reversed, or modified as justice may require. Upon
the granting of such writ of error, execution of judgment shall
be stayed, and the accused, if thereby sentenced to imprisonment,
shall be admitted in bail in such reasonable sum as may be
cequired by the court, or by any justice, or any judge of any
district court of the United States or any court of the District
of Columbia.

Sec. 24, Nothing herein contained shall be construed te relate
to contempts committed in the presence of the court, Or so near
thereto as to obstruct the administration of justice, nor to contempts
committed in disobedience of any lawful writ, process, order,
rule, decree or command entered in any suit or action brought
or prosecuted in the name of, or on behalf of. the United States,
but the same, and all other cases of contempts not specifically
embraced within section twenty-one of this Act, may be punished
in conformity to the usages at law and in equity now prevailing.

Sec. 25. No proceeding for contempt shall be instituted against
any person unless begun within one year from the date of the
act complained of; nor shall any such proceeding be a bar to
any criminal prosecution for the same act or acts; but nothing
herein contained shall affect any proceedings in contempt pending
at the time of the passage of this Act.

Sec. 26. IE any clause, sentence, paragraph, or part of this
Act shall for any reason be adjudged by any court of competent
jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not effect, impair,
or invalidate the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in its
operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph, or part thereof
directly involved in the controversy in which such judgment
shall have been rendered.