Chapter CIV. *to regulate Writs of Error and Appeals from the District Court of the United States for the Middle District of Alabama.* Aug. 8, 1846. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, *How writs of error and appeals to be taken from Di
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Chap. CIV.— An Act *to regulate Writs of Error and Appeals from the District Court of the United States for the Middle District of Alabama.* Aug. 8, 1846. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, *How writs of error and appeals to be taken from District Court for Alabama, for the Middle District.That hereafter writs of error and appeals shall be taken from the District Court of the United States, for the Middle District of Alabama, directly to the Supreme Court of the United States, under the same regulations that writs of error and appeals are allowed from the Circuit Courts of the United States to the Supreme Court; and no writs of error or appeals shall lie from said District Court to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Alabama, as heretofore allowed.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That all causes now pending in the Circuit Court of the United States for the fifth judicial circuit and Certain causes transferred to the Supreme Court.Southern District of Alabama, and which were removed to that court by writ of error or appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Middle District of Alabama, are hereby transferred to the Supreme Court of the United States. Said Supreme Court shall hear and determine the errors assigned in said Circuit Court, in the same manner that the Circuit Court should have done had said causes not been removed.
Approved, August 8, 1846.