United States v. Twenty-Three Coils of Cordage
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
On the 3d December, 1831, an information was filed by the attorney of the United States, against twenty-three coils of cordage, three bolts of ravensduck. and four pieces of sail cloth, found on board of the ship Eliza. It appeared that they were the residue of a purchase made at Cronstadt, as was alleged, for the use of the vessel during the homeward voyage.
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On the 3d December, 1831, an information was filed by the attorney of the United States, against twenty-three coils of cordage, three bolts of ravensduck. and four pieces of sail cloth, found on board of the ship Eliza. It appeared that they were the residue of a purchase made at Cronstadt, as was alleged, for the use of the vessel during the homeward voyage. The vessel was regularly entered at the custom house on the 7th November, 1S31. the manifest of her cargo ivas delivered to the collector but contained no account of these articles, nor were they included in the report of sea stores, not…
1Opinion of the Court
HOPKIXSON. District Judge.
The information in this case charges that the articles above mentioned, on the 29th November. 1831, were found on board the ship Eliza, whereof William Haven, Jr., was master, as sea stores, which had not been and were not included in the report and manifest delivered on oath to the collector of the port of Philadelphia by William Haven, Jr., the master, on the 7th November. 1831. The twenty-third section of the act of March 2, 1799. directs that no goods shall be brought into the United States, from any foreign port, in any ship or vessel belonging to a citizen or…
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