MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WAITE delivered the opinion of the court.
One of the errors assigned on this record is that the Circuit Court had no jurisdiction. It was settled at a very early day that the facts on which the jurisdiction of the Circuit Courts rest must, in some form, appear on the face of the record of all suits prosecuted before them. Turner v. Bank of North America, 4 Dall. 8; Bushnell v. Kennedy, 9 Wall. 387; Hornthall v....
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