The Saratoga

Brown, D. J.

On the fourteenth day of July, 1881, as the steamship Saratoga, from Havana to New York, was coming up the bay and passing quarantine, some boxes of cigars, intended to be smuggled, without the knowledge or privity of the master or owner of the vessel, were dropped from the side of the vessel by some persons unknown. The cigars being of the value of over $400, and having been thus “unladen without a permit,” the master of the vessel, by section 2873 of the Revised Statutes, became liable to a penalty of $400; and, by section 2874, the vessel, her tackle, apparel, etc., became…