Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the 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 if the same had been duly heard and determined in the said Supreme Court before the said jurisdiction and laws had ceased and determined as aforesaid; and all judgments, decrees, 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 has 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 it shall be the duty of the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia for 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 judgments, 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.

Approved, July 5, 1848.