...and Houteof Representative» of the United States of Amerita in Congre»* amrmbled. That the district courts of the United States shall have, possess and...twenty tons burden and upwards, enrolled and licensed in the coasting trade, and at the time employed in the business of commerce and navigation between...

...Haute of Rcpretentatirt» of the United State» of Amerita in Congress assembled. That the district courts of the United States shall have, possess and...twenty tons burden and upwards, enrolled and licensed in the coasting trade, and at the time employed in the business of commerce and navigation between...

...and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the District Courts of the United States shall have, possess, and...concerning steamboats and other vessels of twenty tons burthen and upwards, enrolled and licensed for the coasting trade, and at the time employed in business...

...the same jurisdiction in matters of contract and tort, concerning steamboats and other vessels of 20 tons burden and upwards, enrolled and licensed for the coasting trade, and employed in business of commerce and navigation between ports and places in different states and territories,...

...due for services performed on, from, or to the sea. 422. That Act declares that the District Courts shall have, possess, and exercise, the same jurisdiction in matters of contract and tort, arising in or upon or concerning steamboats and other vessels of twenty tons burden and upwards, enrolled and...

...the enactment, in the year 1845, of an act, in addition to that of 1789, declarins that "the district courts of the United States shall have, possess, and...enrolled and licensed for the coasting trade, and at tlit: time employed in business of commerce and navigation between ports and places in different States...

...connecting the same ;' and the enacting clause conforms to the title. It declares that these courts shall have, possess, and exercise the same jurisdiction in matters of contract and tort, arising in, or upon, or concerning steamboats and other vessels of twenty tons burden and upwards, enrolled and...

...confines the jurisdiction of admiralty courts on the lakes and rivers, to " matters of contract and tort in, upon, or concerning steamboats and other vessels of twenty tons burden and upward, enrolled and licensed for the coasting trade, and at the time employed in business of commerce...

...disclaimer of the power to confer admiralty jurisdiction. It is true, it ordains that " the District Courts of the United States shall have, possess and exercise the same jurisdiction," in the cases specified, "as is now possessed and exercised by the said courts" in cases arising out of...

...be recovered front the vendee, by suit in the admiralty, (d) 1 scts of twenty tons burden, eurolled and licensed for the coasting trade, and, at the time employed in navigation between different states and territories, as these courts, at that time, possessed, in respect...