Samuel Hutchinson Hempstead

“ A party aggrieved, except in criminal cases, was at liberty, by appeal, writ of error, or certiorari, to remove the suit into the superior court for further trial, and where it was to be tried and heard by not less than two of the judges other than the judge who made the decision in the district court. Writs of error and appeals from the final decisions of the superior court lay to the supreme court of the United States, in the same manner as from the circuit courts of the United States, when the amount in controversy exceeded one thousand dollars. ”

“ By act of congress, May 26, 1824, (4 Stat. 40,) the western boundary of Arkansas Territory was fixed at a point forty miles west of the south-west corner of the State of Missouri, and to run south to the right bank of Red River, and thence down that river, and with the Mexican boundary, to the line of the State of Louisiana. ”