Rodney, Attorney-General. SALLY THE • S No appeal lies from that court directly to this in a case where that court acts in the capacity of a tion, does not district court. In such cases the appeal is expressly lie directly to given to the circuit court for the district of Massa- the supreme chusetts. court of the United States, but to the circuit court for In all cases Maine acts as to the circuit of Massachusetts. By the 10th-section of the judiciary act of 1789, the district of vol. 1. p. 54. it is enacted that the "district court Masschusetts. in Maine district, shall, besides the jurisdiction herein where the dis before granted, have jurisdiction of all causes (ex- trict court of cept of appeals and writs of error) herein after a district court, made cognisable in a circuit court, and shall pro- the appeal is ceed therein, in the same manner as a circuit court; court for the and writs of error shall lie from decisions therein, district to the circuit court in the district of Massachusetts, in the same manner as from other district courts to their respective circuit courts." And by the 21st section it is enacted, "that from final decrees in adistrict court in causes of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, where the matter in dispute exceeds the sum or value of three hundred dollars, exclusive of costs, an appeal shall be allowed to the next circuit court to be held in such district. Provided nevertheless, that all such appeals from final decrees as aforesaid, from the district court of Maine, shall be made to the circuit court, next to be holden after each appeal, in the district of Massachusetts." By the act of March 3d, 1803, vol. 6. p. 315. § 2. it is enacted, "that from all final judgments or decrees rendered or to be rendered in any circuit court, or in any district court, acting as a circuit court, in any cases of equity, of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, and of prize or no prize, an appeal, where the matter in dispute, exclusive of costs, shall exceed the sum or value of two thousand dollars, shall be allowed to the supreme court of the United States," &c. In this case the court below could only act in its capacity of a district court, because such causes of SALLY Y. admiralty and maritime jurisdiction are exclusively THE U. S. Cognisable in a district court. C. Lee, contra, contended, that there was a repugnance between the act of 1789, and that of 1803, the latter declaring that appeals in such cases should be directly to the supreme court. But the Court was of opinion that this not being a case where the district court was acting as a circuit court, the appeal ought to have been to the circuit court of Massachusetts. Appeal dismissed. 2. In admiralty cases, an appeal sus- 3. If the law, under which the sen- ib. 5. If the property ordered to be re- 6. See Jurisdiction, 1. 17. 2. The Bank of the United States de- BANKRUPT. 62 1. Under the bankrupt law of the Uni- 35 2. 1. a feme sole, intermarries, after the CITIZEN. A corporation aggregate cannot be 2. CONSIDERATION. 1. In a suit against the endorsor of a 49 |