United States v. Willings & Francis
Supreme Court of the United States
This was an action of debt, brought originally in the District Court of the United States for the district of Pennsylvania, for the penalty of a bond, dated November 16th, 1802, conditioned to pay to the collector of the customs, “the sum of $7720.41, or the amount of the duties to be ascertained' as due and arising on certain goods,” &c., “ entered by the above-bounden Willings & Francis, as imported in the ship Missouri, from Canton, as per entry, dated 16th November…
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This was an action of debt, brought originally in the District Court of the United States for the district of Pennsylvania, for the penalty of a bond, dated November 16th, 1802, conditioned to pay to the collector of the customs, “the sum of $7720.41, or the amount of the duties to be ascertained' as due and arising on certain goods,” &c., “ entered by the above-bounden Willings & Francis, as imported in the ship Missouri, from Canton, as per entry, dated 16th November 1802.” The pleadings, which ended in a general demurrer to the surrejoinder, brought into view the question, whether the ship…
1Opinion of the Court
Marshall, Ch. J.,
delivered the opinion of the scourt. (a) — The single question in this case is, whether an American regis i.ered vessel, in part transferred by parol, while at sea, to an American citizen, and resold to the original owners, on her return into port, before her entry, does, by that operation, lose her privileges as an American bottom, and become subject to foreign duties ?
This question depends on the “act concerning the registering and recording of ships and vessels,” and more particularly on the 14th and 17th sections of that act. In construing the 14th section, much depends…
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