...336.) A Federal statute providing for the punishment of murder committed on the high seas or on any river, haven, basin, or bay out of the jurisdiction of any particular State, does not apply to murder committed on board a warship while in waters within the jurisdiction...

...8, 1 Stat. 112, 113, provided for the punishment of murder committed " upon the high seas or in any river, haven, basin or bay out of the jurisdiction of any particular state," and provided for the trial of the offender in the district where he might be apprehended qr...

...statutes of the United States which punished certain offenses committed upon the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin, or bay "out of the jurisdiction of any particular state." The test applied in Com. v. Peters, decided in the year 1847, was that the place was within...

...jurisdiction of the United States, but which are not piracy by the law of nations, viz., " robbery in any river, haven, basin or bay out of the jurisdiction of any particular state of the United States, upon any vessel or upon the lading or ship's company of any vessel in any...

...179o, i Stat. 112. One section of that statute dealt with murder committed on the high seas, or any river, haven, basin or bay out of the jurisdiction of any particular state. Another section of the same statute dealt with manslaughter committed upon the high seas, but...

...from punishment those who shall be accessoiics before the fact to a murder or robbery committed "in a river. haven, basin, or bay, out of the jurisdiction of any state;" and now, as then, the argument has great weight. But it is again to be observed, that the legislature...

...under the sole and exclusive jurisdiction of the United States," or " upon the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin or bay out of the jurisdiction of any particular State." In his charge to the Grand Jury for the District of Pennsylvania, in the Circuit Court of the...

...And be it [further] enacted, That if any person or persons shall commit upon the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin or bay, out of the jurisdiction of any particular state, murder or robbery, or any other offence which if committed within the body of a county, would...

...arsenal, dock-yard, magazine," or other place under federal control; or "upon the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin or bay, out of the jurisdiction of any particular state." It was a crime to forge "any certificate, indent, or other public security of the United States"; or to...

...they gave courts of the union "cognizance of certain offences committed on the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin, or bay, out of the jurisdiction of any particular state."78 It was conceded that no jurisdiction was given even to courts of the United States when a...