The Sagatind

HOUGH, Cireuit Judge

(after stating the facts as above). The material facts are very few, and we think it clear that they were well known to the governmental authorities before libels filed; a closer attention to them would have prevented a nightmare of pleading, but that pleading occurred before the appointment of the present United States attorney.

Of the allegations of fact above enumerated, some are false. Thus it is untrue that cither vessel ever voluntarily came within four leagues of this coast; there is no pretense of evidence that Sagatind “made contact” with the shore by means of…