...This will appear pretty plain from a perusal of the llth section of the act, where it is enacted, that the Circuit Courts shall have original cognizance...the several states, of all suits of a civil nature, of a certain value, where the United States are plaintiffs, or where an alien is a party, &c. This...

...the Circuit Court, and provides as follows : " That the Circuit Court shall have original cognisance concurrent with the courts of the several states of all suits of a civil nature at common law or in equity, when the matter in dispute exceeds (exclusive of costs) the sum or value...

...and the eleventh defines their powers, and confers their jurisdiction. The latter declares that they shall have original cognizance, concurrent with the...civil nature at common law or in equity where the matter in dispute exceeds, exclusive of costs, the sum or value of five hundred dollars, and the United...

...1. Original jurisdiction. The circuit courts have been vested by statute with original jurisdiction, concurrent with the courts of the several States,...civil nature at common law or in equity where the matter in dispute exceeds, exclusive of costs, the sum or value of $500 and the United States are plaintiffs,...

...case being thus: The llth section of the Judiciary Act of 1789, enacts that— " Tho Circuit Court shall have original cognizance concurrent with the...the several States, of all suits of a civil nature at common law, . . . between a citizen of the State where the suit was brought, and a citizen of another...

...exceeds the sum of five hundred dollars and^the United States are plaintiff, or an alien is a party, or where the suit is between a citizen of the State where the suitis brought and another State. They have also exclusive cognizance of most of the crimes and offences...

...be it further enacted, That the circuit courts shall Original cogm.... ... -. ranee of circuit nave original cognizance, concurrent with the courts of...civil nature at common law or in equity, where the matter in dispute exceeds, exclusive of costs, the sum or value of five hundred dollars, and the United...

...circuit courts, and we find by the seventeenth section of that act that such courts are vested with original cognizance concurrent with the courts of...civil nature at common law or in equity, where the matter in dispute exceeds a certain sum stated, and the United States are plaintiff or petitioner,...

...September 24th, 17&9, commonly called the Judiciary Act, declared that the Circuit Court should have cognizance, concurrent with the courts of the several...civil nature at common law or in equity, where the matter in dispute exceeds the sum of $500, nml the United States are plaintiffs or petitioners. This...

...jurisdictions. Congress, accordingly, have vested the Circuit Courts with original jurisdiction, concurrently with the courts of the several states, of all suits of a civil nature, where the matter in dispute exceeds five hundred dollars, exclusive of costs, and the United States...