§ 4. Judicial district; court officers; cases. That from and after the admission of the state of Kansas, as hereinbefore provided, all the laws of the United States, which are not locally inapplicable, shall have the same force and effect within that state as in other states of the union; and the said state is hereby constituted a judicial district of the United States, within which a district court, with like powers and jurisdiction as the district court of the United States for the district of Minnesota, shall be established; the judge, attorney and marshal of the United States, for the said district of Kansas, shall reside within the same, and shall be entitled to the same compensation as the judge, attorney and marshal of the district of Minnesota; and in 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 Kansas Territory, the mandate of execution or order of further proceeding shall be directed by the supreme court of the United States to the district [court] of Kansas, or to the supreme court of the state of Kansas, as the nature of such appeal or writ of error may require; and each of those courts shall be the successor of the supreme court of Kansas Territory as to all such cases, with full power to hear and determine the same, and to award mesne or final process therein.

History: 12 Stat. 128; ch. 20, § 4; Jan. 29, 1861.