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AN ACT to provide for district and circuit
court of the United States for the district of
Nebraska, and for other purposes.
Be 1T enacted By the Senate and House Of Repre-
se,,tatces Of the United States Of america IN Con-
greSs asSeh,6led That the State OF Nebraska shall
hereafter constitute judicial district, and be
called the district of Nebraska; and for said dis
trict district judge, marshal, and district
attorney of the United States, snail be appointed
by the President, by and with tlIe advice and con-
sent of the Senate.
SEC. 2 And be 1T further enacted, That the
said district of Nebsaska shall be attached to and
constitute part of the eighth judicial circuit
and term of the circuit court and district court
of the United States for said district shall be held
in the city of Omaha, in the State OF Nebraska, on
the first Monday of May and on the first Monday
of November, in each year.
SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the cir
cult and district courts of the United States for
the district of Nebraska, and the judges thereof
respectively, shall possess the same powers and
jurisdistion and perform the same duties possess
ed and performed by the other circuit and dis
trict courts and judges of the United States and
Shall be governed by the same laws and rcgula-
tions.
SEC t. And be it further enacted. That the
district judge appointed tor the district of Ne
braska shall receive as his compensation the sum
of thirty-fve hundred dollars year, payable in
four equal instruments, on the first days of jan
uary, April, July, and October of each year.
SEC. 5. Aa,d De 1t Jurtlter enacted, That the mar
shall and district attorney OF the United States,
and clerk of the circuit and district courts, lor
the said district of Nebraska, shall severally
possess the powers and perform the duties law
fully possessed and performed by similar officers
in other districts of the United States, and shall
for the services they may perform receive the fees
and compensation allowed by the act entitled
Sc An act to regulate the fees and costs to be al
lowed clerks, marshals, and attorneys of the cir
cult and district courts of the United States, and
for other PURPOSES, approved February twenty
sixth, eighteen hundred and fifty ty-three i
SEC q. And be it tuitlter enacted, That all cases
OF appeal or writ of error, heretofore prosecuted,
and now pending in the Supreme Court of the
United States, upon any record from the supreme
court of the Territory of Nebraska, or which may
hereafter be prosecuted from said court as herein
allowed, may be heard and determined by the
Supreme Court of the United Stat,s, and the
mandate of execution or of further proceedings
shall be directed by the Supreme Court of the
United States to the circuit district court of
the United States for the district of Nebraska, Or
to the supreme court of the State of Nebraska as
the nature OF said appeal or writ of error may re-
quire, and each OF these courts shall be the
cessOr OF the supreme court of Nebraska Territory
to all such cases. with full power to hear and
determine the same, and to award mesne final
process thereon And FROM all judgments and
DEGREES of the supreme court of the Territory OF
Nebraska, prior to its admission as State, the
parties to said judgments and DEGREES shall have
error to the federal courts they had under the
laws of the United States prior to the admission
of said State OF Nebraska into the Union
Sec. Z. 4Hd be it fufttcr enacted, That until
Judge for said district of Nebraska shall be duly
appointed the district judge of the United States
for the district of Iowa shall act as the district
Judge of Nebraska, and shall have and exercise
the same Jurisdiction and power in the district
hereby created as he has in the district Of Iowa.
Approved, March 25, 1867.