THAT^Insert supplement/[^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 one of them, at the time of their admission into the Union; and such appeals or writ of error may be taken in all cases where it could have been taken before such territory was admitted a State.^]^

Resolved That the Bill from Senate (No. 27) entitled “An Actsupplementary to the act entitled “An Act to regulate the exercise of the appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court in certain cases, and for other purposes. do pass with the following

Strike out all after the word “That” where it first occurs, and insert the following:

“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 22^d 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 said Territory was admitted into the Union as a State, and to all cases in which judgements 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

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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 judgements 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.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, that all cases together with all process, records, order, judgements, decrees, and proceedings, of federal character or jurisdiction, and not legally transferred 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 transferred 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 proceedings 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 paper 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

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jurisdiction shall be deemed as full and complete as that of the 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.