United States v. Tynen
Supreme Court of the United States
On certificate of division in opinion between the judges of the Circuit Court for the District of California; the ease was thus: Tynen, the defendant, was indicted under the thirteenth section of the act of Congress of March 3d, 1813, entitled “ An act for the regulation of seamen on board the public and private vessels of the United States.” The general ob-: ject of the act, as expressed in its title, was carried out in the first eleven sections.
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On certificate of division in opinion between the judges of the Circuit Court for the District of California; the ease was thus: Tynen, the defendant, was indicted under the thirteenth section of the act of Congress of March 3d, 1813, entitled “ An act for the regulation of seamen on board the public and private vessels of the United States.” The general ob-: ject of the act, as expressed in its title, was carried out in the first eleven sections. They declared that it should not be lawful, after the termination of the war then existing with Great Britain, to employ on board any public or…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Field
An opposition of opinion, like that in the court below, occurred between the judges of the Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York, in a similar case which came before this court at the December Term of 1868, but as the opposition arose upon a motion to quash the indictment, the case was dismissed for want of jurisdiction. † In the present case the questions presented have ceased to be material, and, consequently, it has become unnecessary to determine them, for, since they arose in the Circuit Court, Congress has passed a statute amending the naturalization laws, and prescribing…
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