Melville Fuller

“ The charge of the court is not before us, nor was any exception taken to any part of it, and the verdict and judgment must be held to have been rendered on the facts according to law. Hamburg-American S. S.C.o. ”

“ The jurisdiction of the United States over Sandy Hook is derived from the act of the legislature of New Jersey of March 12, 1846, set forth below. N. J. Laws 1846, p. 146. In 1806 and 1817 deeds of the land included in Sandy Hook were given the United States, being simple conveyances of real estate for named money consideration.
The New Jersey act of 1846 was merely one of cession,
'The Congress shall have power . . . ”