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Lloyd N. Rogers, Administrator of Eliza Park Custis, Edmund L. Rogers, in his own right, and as Administrator of Eliza L. Rogers and Eleanor A. Rogers, Appellants, v. Joseph E. Law, by Mary Robinson, his next friend U.S. 526 (1859)

handle is hein.slavery/ussccases0189 and id is 1 raw text is: 526                SUPREME COURT.
Rogers et al. v. Law.
tribunals of the United States to revise and correct it, and not
for a State court. And as .regards the decision of the District
Court, it had exclusive and final jurisdiction by the laws of the
United States; and neither the regularity of its proceedings
nor-the validity of its sentence could be called in question in
any other court, either of a State or the United States, by ha-
beas corpus or any other process.
But although we think it unnecessary to discuss these ques-
tions, yet, as they have been decided by the State court, and
are before us on the record, and we are not willing to be mis-
understood, it is proper to say that, in the judgment of this
court, the act of Congress commonly called the fugitive slave
law is, in all of its provisions, fully authorized by the Consti-
tution of the United States; that the commissioner had lawful
authority to issue the warrant and commit the party, and that
his proceedings were regular and conformable to law. We
have already stated the opinion and judgment of the court as
to the ex(lusive jurisdiction of the District Court, and the ap-
pellate powers which this court is authorized and required to
exercise. -And if any argument was needed to show the wis-
4om and necessity of this appellate power, the cases before us
sufficiently prove it, and at the same time emphatically call for
its exercise.
The judgment of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin must
therefore be reversed in each of the cases now before the
court.
LLOYD N. ROGERS, ADMINISTRATOR OF ELIZA PARK CUSTIS,
EDMUND L. ROGERS, IN HIS OWN RIGHT, AND AS ADMINIS-
TRATOR OF ELIZA L. ROGERS AND ELEANOR A. ROGERS, AP-
PELLANTS, v. JOSEPH E. IAW, BY MARY ROBINSON, HIS NEXT
FRIEND.
After an appeal has been docketed and dismissed under the 63d rule of court at a
prior term of the court, the same case cannot again be docketed without a new
appeal.
THIS was an appeal from the Circuit Court of the United

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