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Public Acts of the Eighth Congress, 2nd Session, XXXVIII

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2441022United States Statutes at Large, Volume 2 — Public Acts of the Eighth Congress, 2nd Session, XXXVIIIUnited States Congress

March 3, 1805.

Chap. XXXVIII.—An Act to extend jurisdiction in certain cases, to the Territorial Courts.

Superior courts of the several territories of the United States invested with the jurisdiction of the district court of Kentucky, in cases in which the U. States are concerned.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the superior courts of the several territories of the United States, in which a district court has not been established by law, shall, in all cases in which the United States are concerned, have and exercise, within their respective territories, the same jurisdiction and powers which are by law given to, or may be exercised by the district court of Kentucky district: and writs of error and appeals shall lie, from decisions therein, to the supreme court, for the same causes, and under the same regulations, as from the said district court of Kentucky district.^[1]

Approved, March 3, 1805.

↑ By the 10th section of the act of September 24, 1789, “An act to establish the judicial courts of the United States,” chap. 20, vol. i. 77, it is provided “that the district court in Kentucky district shall, besides the jurisdiction given in the act, have jurisdiction of all other causes except appeals and writs of error, as afterwards made cognizable in a circuit court; and shall proceed thereon in the same manner as a circuit court; and writs of error and appeals shall lie from decisions therein, to the supreme court under the same regulations.”

[1] By the 10th section of the act of September 24, 1789, “An act to establish the judicial courts of the United States,” chap. 20, vol. i. 77, it is provided “that the district court in Kentucky district shall, besides the jurisdiction given in the act, have jurisdiction of all other causes except appeals and writs of error, as afterwards made cognizable in a circuit court; and shall proceed thereon in the same manner as a circuit court; and writs of error and appeals shall lie from decisions therein, to the supreme court under the same regulations.”

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