...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...

...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...

...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...

...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,...

...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." The crimes cognizable under the authority of the United States are those only which Federal...

...of the Judicial Code of March 3, 1911, c. 231, 36 Stat. 1091, gives the District Court jurisdiction of all ''crimes and offenses cognizable under the authority of the United States ;" and Sec. 262 of the same code gives the court authority to issue all writs necessary to the...

...cognizable in the courts of the United States. By sect. 609 of the Revised Statutes, it is declared that the circuit courts shall have exclusive cognizance of all crimes and offences cognizable under the authority of the United States, except when otherwise provided, and concurrent...