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Revised Statutes, § 563 — 1st ed. (1875), pp. 94–96
Forty-Third Congress, Session I · Approved June 22, 1874
This is an unofficial transcription, prepared by Robert J. Pfister for ease of reading and copying, of the first edition of the Revised Statutes (1875), which gives the text as enacted on June 22, 1874. Margin notes, case annotations and the revisers’ notes are not transcribed.
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Sec. 563. The district courts shall have jurisdiction as follows:
First. Of all crimes and offenses cognizable under the authority of the United States, committed within their respective districts, or upon the high seas, the punishment of which is not capital, except in the cases mentioned in section fifty-four hundred and twelve, Title “Crimes.”
Second. Of all cases arising under any act for the punishment of piracy, when no circuit court is held in the district of such court.
Third. Of all suits for penalties and forfeitures incurred under any law of the United States.
Fourth. Of all suits at common law brought by the United States, or by any officer thereof, authorized by law to sue.
Fifth. Of all suits in equity to enforce the lien of the United States upon any real estate for any internal-revenue tax, or to subject to the payment of any such tax any real estate owned by the delinquent, or in which he has any right, title, or interest.
Sixth. Of all suits for the recovery of any forfeiture or damages under section thirty-four hundred and ninety, Title “Debts due by or to the United States;” and such suits may be tried and determined by any district court within whose jurisdictional limits the defendant may be found.
Seventh. Of all causes of action arising under the postal laws of the United States.
Eighth. Of all civil causes of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction; saving to suitors in all cases the right of a common-law remedy, where the common law is competent to give it; and of all seizures on land and on waters not within admiralty and maritime jurisdiction. And such jurisdiction shall be exclusive, except in the particular cases where jurisdiction of such causes and seizures is given to the circuit courts.
Ninth. Of all proceedings for the condemnation of property taken as prize, in pursuance of section fifty-three hundred and seventy-six, Title “Insurrection.”
Tenth. Of all suits by the assignee of any debenture for drawback of duties, issued under any law for the collection of duties, against the person to whom such debenture was originally granted, or against any indorser thereof, to recover the amount of such debenture.
Eleventh. Of all suits authorized by law to be brought by any person for the recovery of damages on account of any injury to his person or property, or of the deprivation of any right or privilege of a citizen of the United States by any act done in furtherance of any conspiracy mentioned in section nineteen hundred and eighty-five, Title, “Civil Rights.”
Twelfth. Of all suits at law or in equity authorized by law to be brought by any person to redress the deprivation, under color of any law, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage of any State, of any right, privilege, or immunity secured by the Constitution of the United States, or of any right secured by any law of the United States to persons within the jurisdiction thereof.
Thirteenth. Of all suits to recover possession of any office, except that of elector of President or Vice-President, Representative or Delegate in Congress, or member of a State legislature, authorized by law to be brought, wherein it appears that the sole question touching the title to such office arises out of the denial of the right to vote to any citizen offering to vote, on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude: Provided, That such jurisdiction shall extend only so far as to determine the rights of the parties to such office by reason of the denial of the right guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States, and secured by any law, to enforce the right of citizens of the United States to vote in all the States.
Fourteenth. Of all proceeding by the writ of quo warranto, prosecuted by any district attorney, for the removal from office of any person holding office, except as a member of Congress, or of a State legislature, contrary to the provisions of the third section of the fourteenth article of amendment of the Constitution of the United States.
Fifteenth. Of all suits by or against any association established under any law providing for national banking associations within the district for which the court is held.
Sixteenth. Of all suits brought by any alien for a tort only in violation of the law of nations, or of a treaty of the United States.
Seventeenth. Of all suits against consuls or vice-consuls, except for offenses above the description aforesaid.
Eighteenth. The district courts are constituted courts of bankruptcy, and shall have in their respective districts original jurisdiction in all matters and proceedings in bankruptcy.