Chapter XLVI. *to restore circuit jurisdiction to the district courts of the western district of Virginia.*(*a*)(*a*) See notes of the acts relating to the District Courts of Virginia, vol. 3, 479
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Chap. XLVI.— An Act *to restore circuit jurisdiction to the district courts of the western district of Virginia.*(*a*)(*a*) See notes of the acts relating to the District Courts of Virginia, vol. 3, 479.March 28, 1838. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United So much of 3d section act 3d March, 1837, ch. 34, as repeals all acts conferring circuit court jurisdiction on certain district courts, repealed, &c. Act of March 3, 1839, ch. 81. States of America in Congress assembled,* That so much of the third section of the act entitled “An act supplementary to the act entitled ‘An act to amend the judicial system of the United States,’” approved March third, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, as repeals all former acts, or parts of acts, conferring circuit court jurisdiction on certain district courts therein named, be, and the same is hereby, repealed, so far as relates to the courts of the western district of Virginia; and that the district courts of said district exercise the same jurisdiction with which they were invested previous to the passage of said act. 216TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 54. 1838. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That all causes transferred by All causes transferred from said dist. courts to circuit court at Lewisburg, removed back, &c. authority of said act from the said district courts to the circuit court, directed by law to be held in the town of Lewisburg, in the State of Virginia, and which remain undetermined, be removed back to the district courts from whence they were transferred, to be there finally determined. Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That appellate jurisdiction from Appellate jurisdiction front said dist. courts to be exercised by circuit court at Lewisburg. the judgments or decrees of the said district courts of the western district of Virginia, as now authorized by law, shall be exercised by the said circuit court at Lewisburg.
Approved, March 28, 1838.