Chapter LXXII. in Addition to an Act entitled “An act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act for the Removal of Causes in certain Cases from State Courts,’ approved July twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-six,” approved March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven
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CHAP. LXXII.— An Act in Addition to an Act entitled “An act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act for the Removal of Causes in certain Cases from State Courts,’ approved July twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-six,” approved March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven.March 30, 1872. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That1866, ch. 288.Vol. xiv. p. 306.1867, ch. 196.Vol. xiv. p. 558.Certain personal actions in State courts by aliens against certain civil officers of the United States may be removed to the circuit courts of the United States.1833, ch. 57.Vol. iv. p. 632. whenever a personal action has been or shall be brought in any State court by an alien against any citizen of a State who is, or at the, time the alleged action accrued was, a civil officer of the United States, being nonresident of that State wherein jurisdiction is obtained by the State court, by personal service of process, such action may be removed iTito the circuit court of the United States in and for the district in which the defendant shall have been served with process,in the same manner as now provided for the removal of an action brought in a State court by the provisions of section three of the act of March second, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, entitled “An act further to provide for the collection of duties on imports.
” Approved, March 30, 1872.