A Supplement
To the act Entitled “An act to regulate the Exercise of the appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of the United States in certain Cases, and for other purposes.”
To the act Entitled “An act to regulate the Exercise of the appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of the United States in certain Cases, and for other purposes.”
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America
in Congress assembled
That all and Singular the provisions of the act to which this is a Supplement so far
as may be, shall be and they are hereby made applicable to all cases which may have
been, or may hereafter be pending, in the Supreme or other Superior Courts of and
for any of the Territories of the United states at the time the said Territories may
have been or may hereafter be admitted as states into the Union, and to all cases
in which judgments or decrees have been rendered or may hereafter be rendered in Said
Supreme or Superior Courts of Said Territories or any of them at the time of their
admission into the Union.
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An Act Supplementary to the Act entitled “An act to regulate the exercise of the appellate
jurisdistn of the Supreme Court of the United States in certain cases and for other purposes”
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J. R. Ingersoll,
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R-pr and sp. order for tomorrow.
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H. R. No 1.
A bill supplementary to the act entitled “An act to regulate the exercise of the appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of the United States in certain cases and for other purposes
A bill supplementary to the act entitled “An act to regulate the exercise of the appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of the United States in certain cases and for other purposes
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December 17 1847
Mr. Joseph R Ingersoll by unanimous consent introduced the following bill:
Mr. Joseph R Ingersoll by unanimous consent introduced the following bill:
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Read a first and second time, laid upon the table and made the special order for tomorrow.
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550
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Print forthwith—have on the desk tomorrow morn.
Buck
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Mr Joseph R Ingersoll from the com. on Jud. reported the following amt. Dec 2[1?].
A Supplement
To an Act entitled “An act to regulate the Exercise of the appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of the United States in certain cases and for other purposes.”
To an Act entitled “An act to regulate the Exercise of the appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of the United States in certain cases and for other purposes.”
Sec: 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States
of America in Congress assembled That all and Singular the provisions of the Act ^Entitled “An Act to regulate the exercise of Appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme
Court in certain cases, and for other purposes” Approved February 22d 1847 ^ to which this is a Supplement so far as may be, shall be and they hereby are made
applicable to all cases which were pending in the Supreme court or other Superior
Court of and for the late Territory of Iowa at the time the said Territory was admitted
into the Union as a state, and to all cases in which judgments or decrees have been
rendered in Said Supreme or Superior Court of the said late Territory of Iowa, and
not hitherto removed as aforesaid by writ of Error or appeal.
Sec: 2. And be it further enacted that all and singular the provisions of the said
act to which this is a supplement so far as may be, shall be and they hereby are made
applicable to all cases which may be pending in the Supreme or other superior Court
of and for any Territory of the United States which may hereafter be admitted as a
state into the Union at the time of its admission and to all cases in which judgments
or decrees shall have been rendered in such Supreme or superior court at the time
of such admission and not previously removed by Writ of Error or appeal.
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Sec. 3 And be it further enacted, that all cases together with all process, records,
orders, Judgments, decrees, and proceedings, of federal character or jurisdiction,
and not legally transfered to the State Courts of the State of Iowa, pending prior to and at the time of the
admission of the said State of Iowa into the Union, in the District or Supreme Courts
of the said Territory of Iowa, are hereby transfered to the District Court of the United States for the District of Iowa; and it shall
be the duty of the respective Clerks of the said Courts of the said Territory of Iowa
or their successors in office with whom the records and proceeding^s^ of said cases may be found, upon application by any person or persons interested
therein, to make and certify a full and complete copy of the records thereof, and
transmit the same together with all the original process, pleadings, and other papers
filed in such case or cases and which may be removed without mutilating the records
of said Courts, to the Clerk of the said District Court of the United States; and
when the said records, papers and proceedings shall be thus certified to the said
last mentioned Court, its jurisdiction shall be deemed as full and complete as that
of the Court court, in which the said case originated, had been prior to the said admission of the State
of Iowa, or as if the said case had been originally instituted in said District Court
of the United States.
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A Supplement to an act entitled “An act to regulate the exercise of the appellate
jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of the United States in certain cases and for other
purposes.”
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Ingersoll from Judic. Com. Amedt to Sen. 27.
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Amendment
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J R Ingersoll from Judiciary.
Handwritten Document, 5 page(s), RG 233, Entry 362: Records of the United States House of Representatives, Thirtieth Congress, 1847-1849, Records of Legislative Proceedings, Bills and Resolutions Originating in the House, 1847-1849, NAB ,