...States they may exercise the ordinary admiralty jurisdiction (Act of 1845, c. 20). The circuit courts have original cognizance concurrent with the courts...where the matter in dispute exceeds, exclusive of costs, the sum or value of five hundred dollars, and the United States are plaintiffs or petitioners...

...causes, passed August 13, 1888 (Supp. Rev. St. p. 611 [US Comp. St. 1901, p. 503]), it is provided that Circuit Courts of the United States "shall have original...concurrent with the courts of the several states, of all such suits of a civil nature, at common law or in equity, where the matter in dispute exceeds, exclusive...

...the act of August 13, 1888, chap. 866, 25 Stat. at L. 433, US Сотр. Stat. 1901, p. 508, reading as follows: "That the circuit courts of the United...dispute exceeds, exclusive of interest and costs, the »urn or value of two thousand dollars, and arising under the Constitution or laws of the United States...

...chap. 878, and August 13, 1888, chap. 866, it is enacted ibat the circuit courts of the United Stales shall have original cognizance, concurrent with the...exclusive of interest and costs, the sum or value of $2000, "and arising under the Constitution or laws of the United States, or treaties made, or which...

...L. 826, chap. 517, 8 6, US Corap. Stat. 1901, p. 550. The circuit courts have "original cognitapce, concurrent with the courts of the several states,...exclusive of interest and costs, the sum or value of two thousand dollars, and arising under the Constitution or 191 USUS. BOOK 48. laws of the United States,...

...a suit against an alien does not apply to a suit by an alien. The Judiciary Act, in declaring that circuit courts of the United States shall have original...the several states, of all suits of a civil nature, at common law or in equity, between citizens of a state and foreign states, citizens or subjects, when...

...jurisdiction was the judiciary act of March 3, 1875, chap. 137, S 1. providing that "the circuit court of the United States shall have original cognizance,...civil nature at common law or in equity, where the ma tier in dispute exceeds, exclusive of costs, the sum or value of $500, and arising under the Constitution...

...circuit courts of the United States as they formerly existed was amended August 13, 1888, so as to read that "The circuit courts of the United States shall...exclusive of interest and costs, the sum or value of $2,000, and arising under the constitution and laws of the United States." (18 Stats, at Large, 470;...

...17SO. That statute, based in turn squarely on the Constitution, provided thnt, "The Circuit Courts shall have original cognizance, concurrent with the...of a civil nature at common law or in equity where tlte suit is between a citizen of the State where the suit is brought and a citizen of another State."...

...17S3. That statute, based in turn squarely on the Constitution, provided t lint, "The Circuit Courts shall have original cognizance, concurrent with the...of a civil nature at common law or in equity where tl>e suit is between a citizen of the State where the suit is brought and a citizen of another State."...