The Slavers. (Reindeer.)
Supreme Court of the United States
The bark Reindeer, Cunningham, master, was forced by stress of weather into Newport, K>. I., July 11, 1862, where the collector of the port immediately placed her in custody of a revenue officer. On the 1st of August he made a formal seizure of her for violating the laws relating to the slave-trade.
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The bark Reindeer, Cunningham, master, was forced by stress of weather into Newport, K>. I., July 11, 1862, where the collector of the port immediately placed her in custody of a revenue officer. On the 1st of August he made a formal seizure of her for violating the laws relating to the slave-trade. On the 7th of August following, the United States filed a libel and information in the District Court for Rhode Island, against the bark, her tackle, cargo, &c., in a case of seizure and forfeiture, alleging, First. The fitting and other preparation of the vessel within, and causing her to sail…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clifford
This is an appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Rhode Island, in a cause of seizure and forfeiture.
The libel of information against the bark Reindeer and her cargo, was filed in the District Court on the seventh day of August, 1861, and the transcript shows that it contains twenty counts, founded upon various provisions contained in the several acts of Congress, prohibiting the slave-trade. But the material charges to be considered in this investigation are the following:
1. That the vessel was, on the twenty-sixth day of January, .1861, by some…
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