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 be ascertained by the oath or affirmation of either party or other competent witnesses, shall exceed one thousand dollars; except that in all cases involving title to slaves, the said writs of error or appeals shall be allowed and decided by said Supreme Court, without regard to the value of the matter, property or title in controversy; and except, also, that a writ of error or appeal shall also be allowed to the Supreme Court of the United States, from the decision of the said Supreme Court created by this act, or any judge thereof, or of the District Courts created by this act or any judge thereof, upon any writ of habeas corpus, involving the question of personal freedom; Provided, That nothing herein contained shall he construed to apply to or effect the provisions of the “Act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the services of their masters,” approved Feb. twelfth, seventeen hundred and ninety-three, and the “Act to amend and supplementary to said act,” approved September eighteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty; and each of the said District Courts shall have and exercise the same jurisdiction, and in all cases arising under the Constitution and laws of the United States as is vested in the Circuit and District Courts of the United States; and the said Supreme Courts of the said Territory and the respective judges thereof, shall and may grant writs of habeas corpus in all cases in which the same are granted by the judges of the United States in the District of Columbia; and the first six days of every term of said courts arising under the Constitution and laws, and writs of error and appeal in all cases shall be made to the Supreme Court of said Territory, the same as in other cases. The said clerk shall receive the same fees in all such cases which the clerks of the District Courts of Utah Territory now receive for similar services.

And be it further enacted, That the provisions of the act entitled “An act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters,” approved