...fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, and imprisonment not exceeding seven years. 5. If any person within any fort, arsenal, dock-yard, magazine, or...sole and exclusive jurisdiction of the United States, shall commit the crime of wilful murder, on being convicted thereof, he shall suffer death. If any...

...fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, and imprisonment not exceeding seven jears. 5. If any person within any fort, arsenal, dock-yard, magazine, or...any other place, or district of country under the eole and exclusive jurisdiction of the United States, shall commit the crime of wilful murder, on being...

...homicide, as a crime against the United States was divided into murder and manslaughter "when committed within any fort, arsenal, dock-yard, magazine, or in any other place or district of Opinion of the Court. 225 US country under the exclusive jurisdiction of the United States," and upon...

...fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, and imprisonment not exceeding seven vears. 5. If any person within any fort, arsenal, dock-yard, magazine, or in any other place, or district of country nnder the eole and exclusive jurisdiction of the United States, shall commit the crime of wilful murder,...

...States courts — -the statute of 1790, and that of 1825. The former act provides that if any person shall "within any fort, arsenal, dockyard, magazine,...jurisdiction of the United States," commit the crime of willful murder, &c., he shall be punished, &c. The latter act declares "That if any person upon the...

...punishment as is provided by the laws of the United States for the like offenses, if committed within any place or district of country under the sole and exclusive jurisdiction of the United States. Section 2 of same chapter provides: That the superior courts in each of the territorial districts,...

...the act for the punishment of crimes against the United States, murder committed within a fort, or any other place or district of country under the sole and exclusive jurisdiction of the United States, is punished with death. Thus Congress legislates in the same act under its exclusive and its limited...

...against the persons of individuals, may be classed murder, or manslaughter, in any fort, dock-yard, or other place or district of country under the sole and exclusive jurisdiction of the United States ; b murder, manslaughter, or rape, upon the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin, or other like...

...section of the act of congress, approved April 30, 1790 (1 StaL, 113), which reads as follows: " That if any person or persons shall, within any fort, arsenal,...jurisdiction of the United States, commit the crime of willful murder, such person or persons on conviction thereof shall suffer death." VOL. I.— 31 482...

...suffer d*eath." If, in construing that statute, full effect had been given to the general words "or any other place, or district of country, under the...and exclusive jurisdiction of the United States," they would have included the offense charged, because it was committed on board a ship of war, and...