Gould v. Staples

Fox, D. J.

This action is brought by the consul of the United States at the city of Marseilles, Prance, to recover from the defendant, master of the ship Charter Oak, the penalty of $500 prescribed by the Revised Statutes, § 4310, for not depositing his ship’s papers with the consular agent of the United States at Toulon, in December, 1879; the ship having arrived at Hieres, which was “within the consular jurisdiction of the consul of the United States residing at Marseilles, the said consul-having a consular agent at Toulon.” Hieres is about 20 miles from Toulon; about four mi]os from the…