...States, or 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...

...Jurisdiction. — The district courts shall have jurisdiction as follows : First. Crimes and off'enses. — Of all crimes and offenses cognizable under the authority of the United States, committed within their respective districts, or upon the high seas, the punishment of which...

...eleventh section of the Judiciary Act, which provides, that the circuit courts of the United States shall have exclusive cognizance of all crimes and...under the authority of the United States, except where that act, or the laws of the United States, shall otherwise provide. (1 Statutes at Large, 78.) It...

...jurisdiction generally. In particular, this law grants exclusive jurisdiction to the circuit courts of all crimes and offenses cognizable under the authority of the United States, except where the laws of the United States should otherwise provide; and this will account for the proviso in the...

...*con- [*375 Biet shall arise. The judiciary act of 1789, ch. 20, s. 11, giving to the circuit courts cognizance of all crimes and offenses cognizable under the authority of the United States, and the statute of 1790, ch. 9, declaring, that "if any person shall commit, upon the high...

...and proceedings hereinafter mentioned shall be exclusive of the courts of the several states, first, of all crimes and offenses cognizable under the authority of the United States. * * * Section 2145, which is found under the title " Indians," provides as follows: " Except...

...courts are the DISTRICT COURTS, which have jurisdiction over suits under eighteen heads, as follows: 1. Of all crimes and offenses cognizable under the authority of the United States, committed within their respective districts, or upon the high seas, the punishment of which...

...states, or 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...

...and the district court. The district courts have, exclusively of the courts of the several states, cognizance of all crimes and offenses cognizable under the authority of the United States, committed within their respective districts, or upon the high seas ; where no other punishment...

...offense. The provision therefore that the circuit courts "shall have exclusive cognizance of all Opinion. crimes and offenses cognizable under the authority of the United States, except where the act otherwise provides," etc., cannot warrant such a proceeding. Besides, the same act does provide...