United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/25th Congress/2nd Session/Chapter 46
Chap. XLVI.—An Act to restore circuit jurisdiction to the district courts of the western district of Virginia.[1]
Act of March 3, 1839, ch. 81.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 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of acts, conferring circuit court jurisdiction on certain district courts therein named, be, and the same is hereby, repealed, so far as relates to the courts of the western district of Virginia; and that the district courts of said district exercise the same jurisdiction with which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.
All causes transferred from said dist. courts to circuit court at Lewisburg, removed back, &c.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all causes transferred by 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.
Appellate jurisdiction from said dist. courts to be exercise by circuit court at Lewisburg.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That appellate jurisdiction from 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.