Four Packages v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern' District of New York. This was an information filed by the United States in the District Court, May 8, 1878, for the condemnation and forfeiture of four packages, seized by the collector of .customs for the port of New York as the property of Hugo Seitz and Carl Breidbach, composing the firm of Hugo Seitz & Co., for a violation of sects. 24, 46, and 50 of the act of Congress approved March 2, 1799 (1 Stat.…
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Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern' District of New York. This was an information filed by the United States in the District Court, May 8, 1878, for the condemnation and forfeiture of four packages, seized by the collector of .customs for the port of New York as the property of Hugo Seitz and Carl Breidbach, composing the firm of Hugo Seitz & Co., for a violation of sects. 24, 46, and 50 of the act of Congress approved March 2, 1799 (1 Stat. 627), entitled “An Act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage,” and sect. 4 of the act of July 18,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Cltfeord
Goods imported in any ship or vessel from any foreign port or place are required by the act of Congress to be landed in open day, and the express provision is, that none such shall be landed or delivered from such ship or vessel without a permit from the collector and naval officer, if any, for such unlading and delivery. 1 Stat. 665; Gen. Reg. (1857), 145.
Persons violating that regulation are subjected to penalties ; and the further provision is, that all goods, wares, and merchandise so unladen .or delivered shall become forfeited, and may be seized by any of- the officers of the customs.
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