Ten Cases of Opium

DEADY, District Judge.

The information in this case was filed November 4, 1863. In the first count it is alleged that the opium was brought in the steamship Sierra Nevada, from the foreign port of Victoria to the port of Portland, and here unladen without a permit, and was seized as forfeited for this cause by the collector on October 22, 1863. In the second count it is alleged that the opium was brought from and to the ports aforesaid, but not entered upon the vessel’s manifest, and therefore became and was forfeited to the United States. The claimant, Wha Kee, a Chinese merchant of Portland,…