United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/27th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 123

United States Statutes at Large, Volume 5
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Public Acts of the Twenty-Seventh Congress, Second Session, Chapter 123
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Aug. 4, 1842.

Chap. CXXIII.An Act to regulate appeals and writs of error from the district court of the United States for the northern district of Alabama.[1]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Appeals to the U. S. Supreme Court in certain cases. That all appeals and writs of error from the district court of the United States for the northern district of Alabama, at Huntsville, shall lie directly to the Supreme Court of the United States, when the amount in controversy exceeds the sum of two thousand dollars, exclusive of costs; and that so much of the act to abolish the circuit court at Huntsville, in the State of Alabama, and for other purposes, as requires all appeals and writs of error to lie from said district court to the circuit court at Mobile, without regard to the amount in controversy, be repealed.

Approved, August 4, 1842.


  1. Notes of the acts relating to the District Court of Alabama, vol. 3, 564.

    An act respecting the jurisdiction of certain District Courts, Feb. 19, 1831, chap. 28.

    An act to abolish the Circuit Court at Huntsville, in the State of Alabama, and for other purposes, Feb. 22, 1838, ch. 12.