United States v. Findlay

This is an action of debt to recover $7,960, on a bond of the defendant Findlay, master of the British steamship Orteric, as principal, and the defendants Davies and Baird as sureties, conditioned upon the payment to the United States of America through the collector of customs at the port of Honolulu, of such penalties as, in the language of this instrument, should “be determined by the Department of Commerce and Labor to have been incurred by the said master” by reason of alleged violations of the Passenger Act of 1882 as amended (hereinafter referred to-as the Act), 22 Stat. 186; Act of…