Feb. 22, 1848.
Chap. XII. — An Act supplementary 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".
1847, ch. 17.
Provisions of act of 1847, ch. 17, respecting appeals to the Supreme Court, extended
to cases from the Supreme Court of the Territory of Iowa.
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 twenty-second,
eighteen hundred and forty-seven, 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 judgments or decrees have been rendered in said supreme or superior court of
the said late Terr
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itory of Iowa, and not hitherto removed as aforesaid by writ of error or appeal.
That act extending to cases from all territories hereafter formed into states.
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.
Certain cases pending in the courts in Iowa before her admission to the Union, transferred
to the District Court of the United States for Iowa.
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 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 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, 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.
Approved, February 22, 1848.
Printed Document, 2 page(s), Public Acts, 30th Cong., 1st sess., George Minot, Statutes at Large 9, 211-12