“Bill to enjoin the defendant from printing, engraving, etching, copying, publishing or selling a. certain historical print of the declaration of independence, which the plaintiff claims to have invented and designed at April term 1819. This case was before the court at April term 1819, and was then dismissed; it having been decided, that, although in patent causes the courts of the United States have jurisdiction when both parties reside in the same state, the same did not exist in cases of copy-right. On the 15th of February 1819, congress passed a declaratory law, giving original cognizance to the courts, of the United States, as well in equity as at law, of all actions, &c. arising under any law of the United States granting or confirming to authors or inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings, inventions and discoveries; and upon any bill in equity, filed by any party aggrieved in any such cases, giving authority to grant injunctions according to the course and principles of courts of equity, &c.”