Dona Ana... Las Cruces... S. B. Newcomb.

Grant....

Silver City... Mrs O. S. Warren.

San Miguel.. Las Vegas... A. A. Jones.

Collector.

PART II.

Jurisdiction of United States Courts.

CHAPTER I.

CIRCUIT COURTS.

Under Act of 1887.

The Circuit Court of the United States shall have original cognizance, concurrent with the Courts of the several States, of all suits of a civil nature, at common law or in equity, where the matter in dispute exceeds, exclusive of interest and costs, the sum or value of two thousand dollars, and arising under the Constitution or laws of the United States, or treaties made, or which shall be made, under their authority; or in which controversy the United States are plaintiffs or petitioners; or in which there shall be a controversy between citizens of different States, in which the matter in dispute exceeds, exclusive of interest and costs, the sum or value aforesaid; or a controversy between citizens of the same State, claiming lands under grants of different States; or a controversy between citizens of a State and foreign States, citizens or subjects, in which the matter in dispute exceeds, exclusive of interests 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 the crimes and offenses cognizable by them. But no person shall be arrested in one district for trial in another, in any civil action before a Circuit or District Court; and no civil suit shall