Chapter CXIII. to enable the District Courts of the United States to issue Executions and other final Process in certain Cases
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Chap. CXIII.— An Act to enable the District Courts of the United States to issue Executions and other final Process in certain Cases.March 3, 1863. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* ThatCertain district courts to issue executions, &c., in certain cases. in all cases wherein the district courts of the United States within and for the several districts of Texas, Florida, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, and Kansas had rendered final judgments or decrees prior to the passage of an act entitled “An act to amend the act of the third of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven,1837, ch. 34.Vol. v. p. 176.1862, ch. 178.*Ante,* p. 576. entitled “An act supplementary to the act entitled an act to amend the judicial system of the United States,’ ” approved July fifteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, which cases might have been brought, and could have been originally cognizable in a circuit court, said district courts shall have power to issue writs of execution or other final process, or to use such other powers and proceedings as may be in accordance with law, to enforce the judgments and decrees aforesaid, anything in said act of the fifteenth of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, to the contrary notwithstanding.
Approved, March 3, 1863.