...prompt redress; and not to punish criminally as in the case of an offence. The provision therefore that the circuit courts " shall have exclusive cognizance of all crimes and offences cognizable under the authority of the United States, except where the act otherwise provides,"...

...vice-consuls, except for offences above the description aforesaid." The same act (a. 11.) provides, that the Circuit Courts "shall have exclusive cognizance of all crimes and offences cognizable under the authority of the United States, except where this act otherwise provides,...

...vice-consuls, except for offences above the description aforesaid." The same act (s. 11.) provides, that the Circuit Courts "shall have exclusive cognizance of all crimes and offences cognizable under the authority of the United States, except where this act otherwise provides,...

...general terms that the circuit courts, and the district courts under certain limitations, shall have cognizance of all crimes and offenses cognizable under the authority of the United States: and the subsequent acts providing for the punishment of specific offenses, make no distinction...

...3.) That jurisdiction is conferred in these words: "That," * * * * "said courts" * * * * "shall have cognizance of all crimes and offenses cognizable under the authority of the United States." (2 Statutes, 92, act February 13, 1801.) *Act of April 9, 1866, 14 Stat., 27. f " It was said...

...The District Courts have, exclusive of the State courts, and concurrently with the Circuit Courts, cognizance of all crimes and offenses cognizable under the authority of the United States, and committed within their districts, or upon the high seas, where only a moderate corporal...

...as before remarked, under the act of 1789 ; and the eleventh section provides, among other things, that the Circuit Courts shall have exclusive cognizance of all crimes and offences cognizable under the authority of the United States, except where this act otherwise provides,...

...different States, a controversy between citizens of a State and foreign States, citizens or subjects; and shall have exclusive cognizance of all crimes and...cognizable under the authority of the United States, except as otherwise provided by law, and concurrent jurisdiction with the District Courts of the crimes and...

...Circuit Court had jurisdiction under the eleventh section of the judiciary act, giving Circuit Courts " exclusive cognizance of all crimes and offenses cognizable...the authority of the United States," except where that act " otherwise provides, or the laws of the United States shall otherwise direct, and concurrent...

...* arising under the Constitution or laws of the United States, or treaties made," etc.; " * * * and shall have exclusive cognizance of all crimes and offenses cognizable under the anthority of the United States, except as otherwise provided by law." Chancellor Kent, in respect of...