...courts of crimes and offences cognizable therein." "Sea 711. The Jurisdiction vested in the ¿J court ers; nor offences cognizable under the authority of the United States." By section 5209, tit "National Banks,"...

...a patent case, In violation of Rev. St § 711. which declares that "the Jurisdiction vested1 In the courts of the United States, In the cases and proceedings...be exclusive of the courts of the several states. • • * Fifth. Of all cases arising under the patent-right or copyright laws of the United States."...

...to be given to the act of 1892. By section 563, Rev. St., the district courts are given jurisdiction "of all crimes and offenses cognizable under the authority of the United States, committed within their respective districts." By section G29, par. 20, Id., the circuit courts...

...United States; and that, as the courts ol the United States are invested with exclusive jurisdiction " of all crimes and offenses cognizable under the authority of the United States," (Rev. St. §711,) the judgment must be reversed. This position cannot be sustained. Section...

...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...

...exceeds, exclusive of interest and costs, the sum or value aforesaid, and shall have exclusive cognizance of all crimes and offenses cognizable under the authority of the United States, except as otherwise provided by law, and concurrent Jurisdiction with the district courts of...

...Revised Statutes of the Uni ted States, which reads as follows: "The jurisdiction vested in thecourtsof the United States in the cases and proceedings hereinafter...cognizable under the authority of the United States." That provision of law was in existence when the supreme court of the United States, through Mr. Chief Justice...

...section declares: "The jurisdiction vested in the courts of VOL. IX— 21 the United States in the cases hereinafter mentioned, shall be exclusive of the courts...First, of all crimes and offenses cognizable under the laws of the United States." Construing this section upon its language alone and without reference to...

...in the Revision and enacted as a part of the Revised Statutes. It commences with section 711:— " ' The jurisdiction vested in the courts of the United...cases and proceedings hereinafter mentioned, shall he exclusive of the courts of the several states : First, of all crimes and offences cognizable under...

...concurrent jurisdiction with the District Courts of crimes and offences cognizable therein." "Ssc. 711. The jurisdiction vested in the courts of the United States in the cases and proceedings hereinafter menOpinion of the Court. tioned shall be exclusive of the courts of the several States : First. Of...