Arizona silver belt., 1893-12-30
FEDERAL COURTS UNDER srAranoop.

| By Section GOA of the Revised Stat
 utes of tho U. s, (2nd ed 1s7s) page
 1o6-the judicial districts of the Uni
 ted States are divided into nine cir
 cults. The ninth circuit includes the
 district of California, Oregon and Ne
 vada. Section l5 of the proposed
 enabling act admitting the Territory
 of Arizoha Co Statehood is as follows l:
 ''rhat the said state, when admitted
 as aforesaid shall constitute a judicial
 district, the name thereof to be the
 same as tho name of the State; and the
 oircnit and district courts thereof
 shall be held at the capital of the State
 for the time being, and the said dis.
 trict shall, for judicial purposes, until
 otherwise provided, be attached to the
 ninth judicial circuit A cir
 cult court consists of justice of the
 Supreme Court, called the "circuit
 justice" circuit judge" for the cir
 cult having the same powers as the
 circuit justice, and the district judgen
 of the district where the circuit court
 is held. Any two of these officials
 may hold court. The circuit justice''
 sitting apart may try cases; during
 every two years he must attend at
 least one term of court in the district.
 lR s. Section 61O, Act 10, April 1s69l.
 The jurisdiction of the circuit courts Is such as Congress confers sewing machine cases, IS Wall. 577). A gen. eral description of the original iuris- diction is, that it extends subject to some Limitations founded upon resi- denee) to civil suits involving more than So, GOO, -Jby act of March 8, 1887.
 prior thereto $500 exclusive of costs and arising under the Constitution. laws or treaties of the United States, or in which the controversy is between different States, or citizens of State | and foreign States, citizens and sub- jects; also of crimes under the laws of the United States. They have no ap- pellate jurisdiction over the district court. More specifically the original jurisdiction includes Cases arising | under laws providing internal rev i enue, postal laws, patent laws, copy | right laws; proceedings for penalties incurred by a merchant vessel in caf rying passengers, suits by or against a national banking association, matters involving the elective franchise and other civil rights beldhging to citizens of the United States; also, exclusive jurisdiction of all crimes and ofTenses cognizabie under the authority of the United States, except when otherwise provided, and concurrent jurisdiction with the district court, of offenses cog nizable therein.
 The District Court of the United States has jurisdiction over all admir- alty and maritime causes, all proceed ings in bankruptcy, and all penal and matter eognizable under the laws of the United States, exclusive over which is not vested n the circuit or Supreme court. More this jurisdiction comprises: Son-capital crimes committed within ihe district or upon the high seas, ex- ,ept the cases mentioned in Revised Statutes, Title, Grimes" Section 5412; 'ases of piracy, when no circuit court 8 held in the district; suits for penal ies and forfeitures, in general, suits at common law brought by the United states or any officer thereof; suits in quity to subject realty to the payment # internal revenue tax; suits for for siture or damage as debts due to the United States by Revised Statutes, 'ection 349Oi causes arising under the ,Ostal laws; civil causes in admiralty r maritime law; some ofFenses against igil rights Revised Statutes, Title iXIV; suits by or against any nation ] bank within the district; suits by liens for torts in violation of the law f nations or ofa treaty; certain suits gainst consuls or vice eonsuls, and riginal bankruptcy proceedings.
 As will be seen by the provision of he enabling act it has been ounningiy evised to concentrate the business of le Federal courts at Phoenix and do way with the trial of United States lses in the several districts as at pres nt practiced, In place of having to 0 to Florence as witnesses and jurors l United States cases, citizens of Gila ., ounty would, in the event of Arizona q ecoming a State, have to go to Phoe- v K, but to the people of the northern IA 'unties the hardship would be still m 2, reater. V