United States Statutes at Large/Volume 2/6th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 16
[Obsolete.]
Chap. XVI.—An Act supplementary to an act, intituled “An act to divide the territory of the United States northwest of the Ohio, into two separate governments.”
Act of May 7, 1800, ch. 41.
Certain suits revived.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all suits, and process and proceedings, which, on the third day of July, one thousand eight hundred, were pending in any court of either of the counties, which by the act intituled “An act to divide the territory of the United States northwest of the Ohio, into two separate governments,” has been included within the Indiana territory; and that all suits, process and proceedings, which, on the aforesaid third day of July, were pending in the general court of the territory of the United States northwest of the Ohio, in consequence of any writ of removal or order for trial at bar, had been removed from either of the counties now within the limits of the Indiana territory aforesaid, shall be and they are hereby revived and continued; and the same proceedings, before the rendering of final judgment and thereafter, may and shall be had, in the same courts, in all suits and process aforesaid, and in all things concerning the same, as by law might have been had in case the said territory of the United States northwest of the Ohio had remained undivided.
Approved, March 2, 1801.