The Brigantine Amiable Lucy v. The United States

10 U.S. 330

6 Cranch 330

3 L.Ed. 239

THE BRIGANTINE AMIABLE LUCY

v.

THE UNITED STATES.

February Term, 1810

1

ERROR to the district court of the United States, for the district of Orleans, to reverse the sentence of that court which condemned the brigantine Lucy, for importing a slave from the West Indies, contrary to the act of congress of the 28th of February, 1803, vol. 6. p. 212. entitled 'An act to prevent the importation of certain persons into certain states, where, by the laws thereof, their admission is prohibited;' by the first section of which it is enacted, that no master of a vessel, 'or…