Chapter CCXXIII. *relating to the Circuit and District Courts of the United States for the middle, and northern Districts of Alabama*
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CHAP. CCXXIII.— An Act *relating to the Circuit and District Courts of the United States for the middle, and northern Districts of Alabama*. March 3, 1873. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Repeal of law giving circuit court jurisdiction to certain district courts of Alabama. That so much of an act or acts of Congress as vests in the district court of the United States for the middle district of Alabama, and the district court of the United States for the northern district of Alabama, .the power and jurisdiction of a circuit court, be, and the same is hereby repealed.
Sec. 2. Transfer of certain cases from those district, courts to the circuit court.That all civil causes, actions, suits, executions, pleas, process, and other proceedings now pending in said district courts of the United States for the middle and northern districts of Alabama, which might have been brought and would have been originally cognizable in a circuit court, are hereby declared to be transferred to the circuit court of the district of Alabama; and the clerks of said district courts shall transmit all the original papers in such causes, and a complete transcript of all the dockets, minutes, orders, judgments, and decrees in such causes, as the same appear of record in said district courts, to said circuit court of the United States at Mobile, Alabama.
FORTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 224–226. 1873. 485 Sec. 3. That nothing in this act contained shall apply to any indictmentPending indictments and writs of error or appeals not affected. found by a grand jury and now pending in either of said district courts; nor shall anything contained in this act affect the jurisdiction or power of the Supreme Court of the United States to hear and determine any cause or proceeding now pending in said Supreme Court on writ of error or appeal from either of said district courts for the middle and northern districts of Alabama.
Sec. 4. That hereafter the circuit court of the United States for theCircuit court for Alabama to exercise appellate, &c., jurisdiction. district of Alabama shall exercise appellate and revisory jurisdiction over the decrees and judgments of said district courts of the United States for the middle district of Alabama, and the northern district of Alabama, under the laws of the United States conferring and regulating the jurisdiction, powers, and practice of the circuit courts in cases removed in said courts by appeal or writ of error.
Approved, March 3, 1873.