The Bello Corrunes. The Spanish Consul
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Rhode Island. This was the case of a Spanish vessel and. cargo, stranded on Block Island, and there seized by the officers of the customs. An information on behalf of the United States, was filed in the District Court, against the property, as forfeited, for an alleged breach of the revenue laws.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Rhode Island. This was the case of a Spanish vessel and. cargo, stranded on Block Island, and there seized by the officers of the customs. An information on behalf of the United States, was filed in the District Court, against the property, as forfeited, for an alleged breach of the revenue laws. His Catholic Majesty’s Vice Consul for the district of Rhode Island, interposed a claim on behalf ofCt certain subjects of the King of Spain,” the original owners of the ship and cargo, which was bound on a voyage from the port of Tarragona, in Spain, to La Vera Cruz,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Johnson
This vessel was stranded on Block Island, in an alleged effort to reach a port of the United States. The vessel and cargo have been seized by the Collector of Newport, for supposed violations of the trade laws of this country, and an information was accordingly filed, to subject the whole to condemnation, in the District Court, for Rhode. Island District.
This claim of the United States has been opposed by three classes of competitors. The vessel and cargo, it . appears, are Spanish property, and were captured on the south western coast of Cuba, by the Puyerredon, a private armed brig, bearing…
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