BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
THATthe Supreme Court of the United States shall have full power and jurisdiction to hear and determine, and shall proceed, in due course, to hear and determine all causes which had been removed into said court from the circuit court of the District of Columbia holden in and for the late County of Alexandria, by writ of error or appeal, at the time when the jurisdiction and laws lately existing in said county had finally ceased and determined in the manner provided for in and by the third section of the act to which this is supplemental, and shall deal with and dispose of the same in the same manner, and pursuant to the same laws, rules and regulations as would have applied to and governed the said causes, of the same had been duly heard and determined in the said Supreme Court before the said jurisdiction and laws has ceased and determined as aforesaid; and all judgements, decreed and mandates, after that time issuing from the said Supreme Court in any such cause or causes, shall be certified and transmitted by the Clerk of said Supreme Court to such court, or to the judge or judges of such court as had been vested, or shall or may be vested with jurisdiction or authority to take cognizance of the same, or in any manner to carry the same into effect, or to act judicially touching the same, by any law of the State of Virginia in such case provided, or hereafter to be enacted and provided.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That is shall be the duty of the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia for
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the county of Washington, and of the clerk of said court, and they and each of them are hereby authorized and required to certify and transmit exemplifications of all proceedings, and of all judgements, decrees, and orders rendered or passed, or at any time hereafter to be rendered or passed, in any action, suit, or prosecution originally commenced in the said circuit court holden for the county of Alexandria, and thence removed into the said circuit court holden for the county of Washington, together with all original documents and other papers filed in the same, to such court, judge, judges, or clerk, be now required or authorized or as shall or may be required or authorized by any such law of Virginia as aforesaid to receive or take cognizance of the same, or to carry the same into effect, or, in any manner, to act judicially or officially touching the same.
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06/26/1848
Passed the Senate. June 26th, 1848.
Attest
Asbury Dickins
Secretary.

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Dis. Col.
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S._84.
An act supplemental to the act passed on the ninth day of July, in the year eighteen hundred and forty-six, entitled “An act to retrocede the County of Alexandria, in the District of Columbia, to the State of Virginia.
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06/29/1848
House of Representatives
June 29’ a848
Resolved that this bill do pass.
Tho. J Campbell
Clerk
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HR. Passed
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no papers
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Exd July 1 by Messrs. Hampton & Greene

Partially Printed Document, 4 page(s), Volume 468, RG 46, Entry 427: Records of the United States Senate, Thirtieth Congress, 1847-1849, Records of Legislative Proceedings, Bills and Resolutions Originating in the Senate, Senate Bills and Resolutions Upon Which Further Action Was Taken, 1847-1849, NAB,