Horace Harmon Lurton

“ If, then, it should be true that Massachusetts can take no cognizance of the offense, yet, unless the place itself be out of her jurisdiction, Congress has not given cognizance of that offense to its courts. If there be a common jurisdiction, the crime cannot be punished in the courts of the Union.' The case has no bearing upon the question here involved, except so far as that the jurisdiction of the courts of the United States was there held to be excluded, because the place where the offense was committed was within the territorial jurisdiction of one of the states of the Union. ”

“ Stat. (U.S.C.omp. Stat. 1901, p. 669) , copies of any papers or documents, in any of the executive departments, under the seal of the proper department, are made admissible in evidence equally with the original. ”