Harrison v. Vose
Supreme Court of the United States
This case came up from the Circuit Court of the United States for Maine, upon a certificate of division in opinion between the judges thereof. It-was an action of debt for the penalty of five hundred dollars imposed by the statute (2 Stat. at Large, 203) which will be presently quoted, brought in the Circuit Court for Maine, in .the name of Mr. Harrison, United States Consul at Kingston, in the island of Jamaica, against George C. Vose, master of the-brig Openango.
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This case came up from the Circuit Court of the United States for Maine, upon a certificate of division in opinion between the judges thereof. It-was an action of debt for the penalty of five hundred dollars imposed by the statute (2 Stat. at Large, 203) which will be presently quoted, brought in the Circuit Court for Maine, in .the name of Mr. Harrison, United States Consul at Kingston, in the island of Jamaica, against George C. Vose, master of the-brig Openango. By the second section of the act of 28th February, 1803, entitled “An act supplementary to the act concerning consuls and…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Woodbury
The question in this case, on which the judges below have presented a difference in opinion, is one of commercial importance,- and of no little difficulty.
The provisions in the act of Congress of February 28, 1803, under which the penalty is. claimed by the plaintiff from the defendant, declare, “ that it shall be the duty of every master or Commander of a ship or vessel belonging to citizens of the United States,” “ on his arrival at a foreign port, to deposit his register, sea-letter, and Mediterranean passport with the consul, vice-consul, commercial agent, or vice commercial agent, if any…
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