· 62 FORTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 147, 154.. 1876. Powers, duties, Sec. 4.,That the marshal, district attomcy, and the clerk of the cir- “}"1 °°££,°““,f“*‘°” cuit and district courts of said district of Colorado, and_all other oin- ° mu ’° °' cers and personsperforming duties in the administration of justice therein, shall severally possess the powers and perform the duties law -_ iully possessed and reqpirged to be Igaerfgrmeel by srmilar officertshin other districts of the Unite ‘tates an s a or e services ey may perform, receive the fees and compensatibn allowed to other similar officers and persons performing similar duties by the laws of the United States, excepting such provisions thereof as are specially applicable to some particular officer or district. Appealsfrom and SEO. 5. That all cases of appeal 01* writ of error heretofore prose- “’"*·’ of °“"{;` lg. cuted and now pending in the Supreme Court of the United States $g;?E;?y wu ° upon any record from the supreme court of the Territory of Colorado, ·or that may hereafter be lawfully prosecuted from said cdolgt, may bg _ heard and determined by the Supreme Court of the Unite tates an Remind of pro- the remand of execution or of further proceedings shall be directed °°°°“¤8*’· by the Supreme Court of the United States to the circult or district court of the district of Colorado, or to the supreme court of the State of ‘ _ Colorado, as the nature of the case may require; and each of said last- S“°°*}S“'{;“ *[Z?1,°“‘ mentioned courts shall be the successor of the supreme court of Colo-
"°"’ ° °1" rado Territory as to all such cases, with full power to proceed with
' the same and to award mesne or tina} process therein. . Riglit to appeal Sec. 6. That from all judgments and decrees of the supreme court of mid Wfll of °“‘°§ the Territory of Colorado prior to its admission as a State, the parties
°°""° to such judgments shall have the same right to prosecute appeals and
writs of error to the Supreme Court as they shall have had by law prior to the admission of said State into the Union. 1.>1sn-aetjuugeor Sec. 7. That until the judge for said district of Colorado shall be N°l*l`¤¤1*¤ W ¤°* duly appointed and qualined,the‘district judge of the United States ‘°“'I’°""'1y‘ for the district of Nebraska shall act as the distrct judge of the dis- . trict of Colorado and shall have and exercise the same jurisdiction gud powers in the district hereby created as he has in the district of · ebraska. _ Transfer or cases Sec. 8. That in respect of all cases, proceedings, and matters pending
- 0***, *°*”3,*‘;*`!°»; in the supreme or district courts of the Territory of Colorado at the
jx5g,,, time of the admission of said State into the Union, whereof the circuit
or district courts by this act established might have had jurisdiction under the laws of the United States had said courts existed at the time of the commencement of such cases, the said circuit and district courts respectively shall be the successors of said supreme and district courts of said Territory · and all the files records and proceedings relating thereto shall be ’transferred to said, circuit and district courts respectively, and the same shall be proceeded with therein in due course of law. Approved, June 26, 1876. June 29, 1876. CHAP. 154.-Au act to amend section one thousand nine hundred and eleven of the ·······—··—i···· Revised Statutes of the United States defining the jurisdiction of the courts in Washin gton Territory. ` Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represcnmtives of the United ¤££5£1r1’· 33*% States of America. in Congress assembled, That section one thousand nine hundred and eleven of the Revised Statutes of the United States be amended by inserting the words “ and laws " after the word “Constitution " in the latter clause of said section. Approved, June 29, 1876.
