...applicable laws, noting 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...

...provided for the punishment of certain offences, among which manslaughter was not mentioned, committed upon the high seas, or in any river, haven, basin or bay, and in section twelve, punished manslaughter on the high seas, no indictment could be maintained against...

...the court, alleging as a reason therefor that the offense charged In the indictment was not committed in any river, haven, basin, or bay out of the jurisdiction of any particular state, nor within any place purchased by the United States with the consent of the legislature of die...

...apprehended, or into which he may be brought." This offence was not committed on the high seas, nor in any river, haven, basin, or bay, out of the jurisdiction of any particular State, and is, therefore, not within this provision. In the ex parte case of Bollman and Swartwout...