Fifty Thousand Cigars

LOWELL, District Judge.

In this case a large quantity of cigars, and a small quantity of sugar and molasses, have been condemned and sold, having been found on board the American schooner Atlantic under circumstances which showed very clearly an intention to smuggle them into the United States. Several persons have filed petitions for the share of the proceeds of the forfeiture provided by sect. 91 of the collection act of 1799, which enacts, among other things, that in all cases where such fines, &c., shall be recovered, in pursuance of information given to the collector, by any person other…