MR. CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER, after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court.
The original jurisdiction of this court over "controversies between two or more States" was declared by the judiciary act of 1789 to be exclusive, as in its nature it necessarily must be.
Reference to the language of the Constitution providing for
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