Pollock v. Steam-Boat Laura

Choate, D. J.

This is a libel to recover penalties under Rev. St. § 4465, for carrying a greater number of passengers than the certificate of inspection permitted. By Rev. St. § 4469, penalties so incurred are made a lien on the vessel. After the filing of the libel the claimants, who are owners of the steam-boat, applied to the secretary of the treasury for a remission of the penalty, and after they had served their answer a warrant of remission was issued, wherein the secretary, by the authority given him by Rev. St. 5294, remits to the petitioners, claimants herein, “all the right, claim,…