United States v. Parsons
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Debt on a bond given by the master of the ship William & Henry, as required by tbe act of Feb. 2S, 1S03, § 1 (2 Stat 203), for the return to the United States of the company of the ship.
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Debt on a bond given by the master of the ship William & Henry, as required by tbe act of Feb. 2S, 1S03, § 1 (2 Stat 203), for the return to the United States of the company of the ship. The ship sailed from New Bed-ford, in 1860, on a whaling voyage to and in the Pacific Ocean, in the course of which the defendant William C. Parsons was deprived of his command by the owners, and came home, and the vessel was brought back by another master, who failed to produce to the boarding-officer five of the original crew, and five persons, not shown to be citizens of the United States and not shipping…
1Opinion of the Court
LOWELL, District Judge.
This master had no opportunity to comply with the literal tenor of his bond by exhibiting his crew to the boarding-officer, nor his consular certificates or satisfactory evidence of the death and desertion of certain of the men to the collector of New Bedford, because he was not permitted to bring the ship home, but came before the ship arrived, and without any of her papers. I cannot say that he is exonerated from his obligation under the bond by his discharge abroad, so far as his own acts or neglects are concerned: but he may now produce the evidence, which, if he…
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