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
Secretary.
06/26/1848
Passed the Senate. June 26th, 1848.
Attest
Asbury DickinsAttest
Secretary.
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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.
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
Clerk
06/29/1848
House of Representatives
June 29’ a848
Resolved that this bill do pass.
Tho. J CampbellJune 29’ a848
Resolved that this bill do pass.
Clerk
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HR. Passed
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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,