United States v. Rendle

JOHNSON, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a decree of the District Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts dismissing a libel of information in admiralty to forfeit the steam tug Esther M. Rendle, under sections 4337 and 4377 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, the former being section 8086 and the latter section 8132 of the United States Compiled Statutes of 1916, which are as follows:

Comp. St. § 8086 (R. S. § 4337): “If any vessel, enrolled or licensed, shall proceed on a foreign voyage, without first giving up her enrollment and license to the collector…